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“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
The Key To Consistent Creativity and Productivity →
How long can you concentrate and focus on one thing before your energy and attention begins to falter? How long does it take you to engage in a particular thing to make the effort of engagement worth it?
The answers to those two questions make up (what I’m calling) your engagement threshold, and figuring out your engagement threshold is probably the most important thing you can do to become more consistently creative and productive.
thousands of recycled keyboard keys are embedded into a continuous textile. The keys spell out a line-by-line transcript of the email correspondence between the artist and fabricators regarding the creation of the artwork. As a result, the sculpture documents its own making. Viewers can also type their own messages on the active keys amid the first three rows of emails. These new messages are then projected onto the opposite end of the fabric, thereby continuing the virtual dialogue. The project speaks to the pervasiveness of email in our lives while commenting on the fact that, despite the modern technology of virtual communication, our written language is linked to the tactile sensation of moving our fingers over an outmoded typewriter system.
um, that’s crazy….
via travelhighlights.
Candlelight Procession on Good Friday by Farl:
“Sometime ago I wished that I can capture a traditional candlelight procession in an old town, viewing the ocean of illuminated faithful on top of a balcony of a century old house.The building across mine must be as old, spewing out rustic details of days of the past. The spot had be at the corner so that the candles will be a stream of curving flickring lines.”
Bantayan, Cebu, Philippines
via meaghano.
“It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.”
— Dfw on Good Writing via zadie smith. Discipline indeed. (via meaghano)
The Ice Bath Method: Easing Into Painful Projects →
- Start with a half hour brainstorming session. Go somewhere interesting, armed only with pen, paper, and caffeine. (Dog optional.)
- Later that same day, use the results of your brainstorming to set the foundation for one hour of hard focus.
- Wait until at least the next day to do your first multi-hour push on the project.
