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“you can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, even months analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, should’ve, would’ve happened or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on”
White Russian macarons, filled with white chocolate ganache laced with Kahula.
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Andrew Zuckerman’s latest feat reveals how 51 people weigh in on the topic of wisdom. Some selections:
“Your best work is your expression of yourself. You may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you’re the only expert in it.” —Frank Gehry
”You can’t get to wonderful without passing through alright. You can’t skip from not being able to function all the way over to running the show.” —Bill Withers
”Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get the work done. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lighting to strike you in the brain, you’re not going to make an awful lot of work.” —Chuck Close
”Life isn’t perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it. You have to open your heart to what the world can show you. And sometimes it’s terrifying and sometimes it’s beautiful. And I’ll take both, thanks.” —Graham NashWisdom indeed.
“I’ll leave them to do what they want
I’ll leave them to do what they need to
I’ll go and play with words and pictures
I’ll admit I’m feeling strange
I’m not as sad as Dostoevsky
I’m not as clever as Mark Twain
I’ll only buy a book for the way it looks
And then I stick it on the shelf again”
We’re not terrific but we’re competent
l’esprit de l’escalier
You’re telling me that the French have a phrase for when I think of the most crippling insults only after I’ve forfeited a debate like a bubbling idiot?
Many gems in Frank Chimero’s blog:
So, the most frequently asked questions. You know, the first 4 questions that always get asked whenever you go see a designer speak. I secretly loathe being asked these questions.
What inspires you? How do you find inspiration?
Everybody’s inspired by the same things: the stuff they come in contact with. No exceptions. If you’re not inspired, you either need a vacation and to leave the house and expose yourself to more/different stuff, or you need to be sucker-punched in the gut. Just something to snap you out of the routine that’s numbed you to all the interesting stuff out there.Be open. Boring question, boring answer. No secrets.
What do you do if you can’t think of an idea?
I bash my head up against my desk like everyone else. We’re all the same.How do you promote yourself?
Unsexiest answer ever: be better.Do something interesting and do it really well. This is way harder than promoting yourself. Service your clients really well. Come up with damn good work that has thick value.
Do something compelling. There’s a trillion people writing blogs that need something to write about. There are magazines hungry for content. There are hundreds of thousands of people bored on the internet wanting something to look at or do. For the most part, people have exceedingly low standards on the internet. But, I think people are hungry for better. Make something better. People will notice.
The number of people that are consuming creative work keeps growing (because it’s fun and nourishing). The number of people doing solid, compelling creative work is staying the same (because it’s hard work). You do the math.
How do you find the time to do this stuff?
“This Stuff” is important to me.
Waking up to misinformed statements about climate change, egged on by an east coast snow storm, (duh global warming can’t be real if snow is cold,) I went on a rampage to read about people who actually cared about the current state of things. If I hadn’t found this, I might’ve spent the rest of my day in bed wallowing in my hopelessness.
Check it: Unpackaged is a London market with “the same simple concept… that food packaging is generally a pretty dumb idea and we, or more appropriately, the supermarkets, need to reeducate ourselves and reconsider the way we view unnecessary packaging in the 21st Century.”
Perfect- I knew my disdain for Packaging class had to be rooted in something deeper than hating X-acto knives and 90 degree angles.
More awesome pictures at WeHeartIt AND look at the beautifully simple graphic design from Multistorey.
“We tend to think of craft in the tangible things—in the elegant drape of handcrafted fabric, in the smoothness and style of the arm of a chair, in the way a well-made tool eases into the palm and places no burden on the wrist. But I’ve come to see craft in the intangibles as well—in the rhythm of a well-written sentence, in the exact number of pixels separating two columns, in the lucidity that emerges from an orderly line of code.”
