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A day of work.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:12:23 +0100

A day of work.

"If you say a thing often enough, it will be accepted as truth"

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:05:41 +0100

“If you say a thing often enough, it will be accepted as truth”

- Stephen King - Guns

(via Dymaxion House (1946) - YouTube)

Tue, 28 May 2013 11:14:02 +0100

(via Dymaxion House (1946) - YouTube)

mistgates: William Hope Spirit Photography

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:48:43 +0100

mistgates:

William Hope

Spirit Photography

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:21:10 +0100

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

(via Make Good Art: Neil Gaiman’s advice on the creative life, adapted by design legend Chip Kidd | Brain Pickings)

"Taking the middle ground, it’s a bit like beige. You’ll never surprise anyone, but..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:02:22 +0100

“Taking the middle ground, it’s a bit like beige. You’ll never surprise anyone, but you’ll never let them down.”

- Craig Oldham

"No significant learning can take place without a significant relationship"

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:40:06 +0100

“No significant learning can take place without a significant relationship”

- TED Talks Education Special on PBS

Backing up my Tumblr, reading old posts, this is one from almost...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:53:09 +0100

Backing up my Tumblr, reading old posts, this is one from almost 5 years ago. How things have changed.

Andreas Gefeller’s Stark Images of Utility Poles and Power Lines...

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:00:28 +0100

Andreas Gefeller’s Stark Images of Utility Poles and Power Lines in Japan
Carolyn Rauch, featureshoot.com

Dusseldorf-based photographer Andreas Gefeller created his Japan Series based on an invitation by Japan EU Fest. The organization invites 2-3 European photographers to Japan each year. Gefeller photographed the artfully abstract series of…

Dear Max (via FFFFOUND! | this isn’t happiness™)

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:05:31 +0100

Dear Max

(via FFFFOUND! | this isn’t happiness™)

Like a souvenir record from a mid century World’s Fair, ‘The...

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:30:00 +0100

Like a souvenir record from a mid century World’s Fair, ‘The Beam’ follows in the footsteps of early electronic composers such as Raymond Scott, Tristram Cary and Tom Dissevelt. (via ▶ The Simonsound)

Messing about in the woods on Flickr.

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:03:27 +0100

Messing about in the woods on Flickr.

Photographs Produced from Discarded Astronomical Negatives and...

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:45:22 +0100

Photographs Produced from Discarded Astronomical Negatives and Prints
Carolyn Rauch, featureshoot.com

During her work as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Chile’s Astronomical Observatory, Los Angeles-based photographer Aspen Mays conceived the unique project, Sun Ruins. She found an abandoned darkroom at the Observatory containing…

youmightfindyourself: “Plugged in, neurotically Wi-Fied and...

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:33:35 +0100

youmightfindyourself:

“Plugged in, neurotically Wi-Fied and 3Ged as we are, we yearn to re-establish contact with the actual, the primal, the old … We languish for the non-mechanical and the pre- or post-industrial. We are pilgrims seeking the past, the genuine, the individual.”

Wilder Mann: The Image of the Savage

An earlier Ten Seconds test. I prefer the way I seem...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:45:25 +0100

An earlier Ten Seconds test. I prefer the way I seem to disappear at the end, but the photo wasn’t as good, as you couldn’t see me at all - I was hiding a little too well.

More here

10 Second Project - Still on Flickr.

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:34:56 +0100

10 Second Project - Still on Flickr.

“If you throw enough dust in their eyes you will win the...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:20:00 +0100

“If you throw enough dust in their eyes you will win the case”

Bob Mortimer speaking about jurors and his past life as a solicitor on Jon Ronson On.

“Jon Ronson investigates why the least deserving people often get the richest rewards.”

I’ve seen enough dust being thrown in the eyes of people in the past few years. The show goes onto talk to a journalist who misled editors and readers for years by misquoting and making stuff up. He talked about giving people what they wanted, what they expected the story to be, and that often people are more interested in the story they wanted to hear than they are the truth. Seems pretty relevant to stuff that’s been going on in my life for the past few years.

Go and listen to the latest Jon Ronson on, it’s one of the best radio shows around right now.

For Max. One day.

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:27:12 +0100

For Max. One day.

Steak pan on Flickr.

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:33:30 +0100

Steak pan on Flickr.

The symphony of work and life

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:25:07 +0100

I went to see A Late Quartet at the weekend at the Duke of Yorks. I picked the film because it had some of my favourite actors in it, namely Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. It was also set in NYC, a place that is dear to my heart at the moment, my brain is busy thinking about future plans for the city. Little did I know the film would be so relevant to so many things in my life right now.

The film centres around 4 musicians who have been playing in a quartet for 25 years. It follows the emotions, battles, compromises and complications between 4 people who have spent those years working so closely together. These feelings are brought to the forefront when one of the quartet becomes ill, and it threatens to pull the quartet apart. I don’t want to give too much of the film away. If you have any relationships in your life, be they work or personal, I highly recommend this film as a way of putting some perspective on them.

There are not many roles that require so much dedication and often compromise as those that exist in the classical music world, especially the quartet. It’s less intensive, but the world of work, business and life also requires dedication and compromise when it comes to the definition of roles and responsibility. For that dedication to continue and not get foggy, there needs to be good communication, and that communication is sometimes difficult. The longer you hold onto something, the greater chance of it becoming a negative and harder to repair.

From Wikipedia - The word symphony is derived from Greek συμφωνία (symphonia), meaning “agreement or concord of sound”.