25 August 2011
life — #
If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. – Steve Jobs
// via swissmiss
13 April 2011
life & sustainability — #
Worldometers shows real time statistics for various metrics.
2 December 2010
science & life — #
NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical Arsenic
14 October 2010
life & photography — #
lens culture: in almost every picture # 7 “tells the story of a Dutch woman whose life is seen from the point of view of a fairground shooting gallery.”
The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery. Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize.
And so a lifelong love affair with the shooting gallery begins. This series documents almost every year of the woman’s life (there is a conspicuous pause from 1939 to 1945) up until present times.
At the age of 88 Ria van Dijk still makes her pilgrimage to the Shooting Gallery.
12 October 2010
culture & life — #
Fifty People, One Question asks 50 people off the street the same question and films their answers.
20 August 2010
design & life — #
Frank Chimero offers advice to a graphic design student and it’s fantastic.
17 August 2010
life & culture — #
Ryan Freitas offers 35 Lessons from his 35 Years
— Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.
24 July 2010
photography & life — #
On Childhood is my ongoing photographic essay documenting the lessons kids have to teach us about living in the moment and about our larger cultural contexts.
10 June 2010
parenthood & life — #
Around-the-world, teen sailor missing at sea somewhere in the Indian Ocean
25 May 2010
life & health — #
For both of my parents, death came unobstructed. This is what all of us wish to have happen: to run up to the edge and fall over. But it doesn’t happen to many people who ignore how the end might come for them. Although it may be a form of arrogance to attempt the management of one’s own death, is it better to surrender that management to the arrogance of someone else? We know we can’t avoid dying, but perhaps we can avoid dying badly.