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| Husband: That was amazing! Can you make it again? Me: I combined recipes, didn’t measure anything, substituted half the ingredients, and cooked purely in vibes—so...probably not. Unknown |
| Why am I laughing? This is how I cook. |
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The psychogeographers understood a truth we rarely acknowledge: that the city is a machine designed to make you believe you are free, when its real aim is to control you. We are trained to think we can walk out the door or get in the car and go wherever we want, when in fact the urbanized space we inhabit is a labyrinth of enclosure that regulates our movement through it with almost infinite layers of access control. We stick to the sidewalks with occasional transgressions onto desire paths, stay in our traffic lanes while daydreaming of off-road adventures, experience nature mostly through simulations and screens. We see doorways and windows everywhere, but only a small number are actually open to us. We think we are autonomous agents who have chosen our paths in life, as we circulate through the city in much the way blood cells move through the body, each performing assigned tasks that keep the machine of the collective running. The landscapes we move through are manufactured ones, shaped by us, even when they are green. Maybe because the city knows that if we encountered an authentically wild and natural space, we might try to disappear into it. A Natural History of Empty Lots, Christopher Brown |
At its most basic, it was a medium-sized frame; clustered with various components that the Sanity Engine helped them print. Unsightly and peculiar, odious and beautiful, it conveyed a certain elegance of design — with the morbid simplicity of a bucket of internal organs. Sanity Engine, AJ Sterling |
| Oh, you know, you realize that grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. And I think, you know, this is the last act of loving someone. And you realize that it will never end. You get to do this to translate this last act of love for the rest of your life. Ocean Vuong |
| Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. Charles Dickens |
| Stop keeping everything in your head. I'm serious. Every time you solve a problem and don't document how, you're basically deleting that knowledge for everyone else (especially future you who forgets things). Write down your thinking. Capture your process. Record your reasoning. Your expertise should outlive your memory. Mara |
You can always find time to write. Anybody who says he can’t is living under false pretenses. To that extent depend on inspiration. Don’t wait. When you have an inspiration put it down. Don’t wait until later and when you have more time and then try to recapture the mood and add flourishes. You can never recapture the mood with the vividness of its first impression. William Faulkner |
| What a wild time to be alive. One side thinks it's the golden age, and the other is convinced it's a dark age. It really makes you see how we can live in completely different realities depending on how we perceive the world. Our mind truly creates the world. Laura Matsue Guenther |
| if your parents aren't deeply confused by what you're doing with your life, you’re playing it too safe Unknown |
The thing I find saddest about our era is how few people seem interested in learning, their lack of openness to things unfamiliar, their incuriosity towards history, books, film. There's so much joy in studying the past, in great works of art, in letting yourself be astonished. In reading the words of ordinary people from a hundred years ago I'm amazed by their vocabulary, their range of cultural references, their casual erudition. Encountering the eloquence of soldiers in the trenches feels like a vanished world. We have lost so much. Boze |
| The good news is that the renaissance is coming! So many people are going back to handwriting, talking to strangers offline, and connecting more deeply with their existing relationships. People are pivoting or trying out new careers, designing personal curriculums based on intellectual curiosity. I can’t wait to hear the new literature, poems, films, and projects that will come out of this time. Shae O. |
This has happened to everyone of us. I'm sure. You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important. Unknown |
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