January 2010
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“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
– Julia Child (via yummybites)
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not...”
– Elie Wiesel (via projectdarkstar) (via quote-book)
So appropriate after my last post on Laziness!
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On laziness.
So I don’t really like that last quote I posted by Lech Walesa. BUT, I posted it because the concept of “laziness” has been on my mind. I hear friends, colleagues, and clients say the very same thing: “I’m (just) lazy.” This is usually in response to a question of, “Why are you not doing X?” I’m here to call this out. Let’s shed some...
“I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle...”
– Lech Walesa Polish labor leader, politician, & reformer (1943 - ) (via tapwaterjackson |quote-book)
“Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via thoughtsdetained) (via quote-book)
2010 is totally kicking 2009's ass, and it's only...
Sweet.
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan on her relationship with Carl Sagan
via savagemike | atheistramblings | phazerblast | jonahray | kevintwoh | shanai-matteson
Some Questions Before the Drop
wbsc:
Recently the WBSC crew made a career suicide pact. What does this mean, exactly? We’re not sure, but we think it’ll involve taking some big risks in order to give ourselves the time and space we need to make better, more meaningful use of our lives.
As we quietly begin preparing for what feels to me like a big drop off the grid, here are just a few of the questions we’re asking ourselves,...
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How to post photos on the internet
caterpillarcowboy:
sarahcooley:
marco:
Take a boring photo with your 50mm f/1.8 prime wide open, with a small sliver of your subject in focus. Leave large portions of the subject outside of the focal plane, regardless of how important or interesting they are.
Rotate the camera 30 degrees before shooting.
Square-crop.
Oversaturate or slightly desaturate. Tint red to look old. Under...
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This Emotional Life →
psychotherapy:
Just a quick reminder about something wonderful that will be on your TV for the next three nights:
The Emmy Award-winning team of Vulcan Productions and the producers of NOVA have created a three-part series that explores improving our social relationships, learning to cope with depression and anxiety, and becoming more positive, resilient individuals.The series was produced by...
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All I Want - Joni Mitchell →
All I really really want our love to do Is to bring out the best in me and in you I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you I want to renew you again and again
@lovelivelearn
Um, anomalies like NYE 2008/9 are now being budgeted on all fronts. If NYE is a harbinger for the year to come, 2010 will be lots of good, clean fun - lots of living room dancing and karaoke. Positively beltless and within full recollection :)
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