Beauty isn't all about just nice loveliness, beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming. So I think beauty in that sense is about an emerging fullness, a greater sense of grace and elegance, a deeper sense of depth and also a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of your unfolding life.
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Where you are understood you are at home.
Link // John O'Donohue // from On Being // APM // January 26, 2012
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Where you are understood you are at home.
Link // John O'Donohue // from On Being // APM // January 26, 2012
Peter Sagal: Your last question, Indie band Bon Iver is up for Record of the year as well. Band leader Justin Vernon says the idea for the band came to him when?
A. When he was reading the Harry Potter books out loud to his kids and he started singing in his Dobby the House Elf voice. B. He said the vision for the band came to him while he was laid up with mononucleosis and watching Norther Exposure on TV. Or C. It started as a U2 tribute band and somebody said he was even "Bono-er than Bono".
Kurt Elling: Doesn't Bon Iver mean good winter?
Peter Sagal: It, it might.
Roxanne Roberts: Think about Northern Exposure.
Kurt Elling: I was thinking about Northern Exposure...
Roxanne Roberts: I mean you already won.
Kurt Elling: and mono as a combination.
Roxanne Roberts: Well, I mean, you're flat on your back...
Kurt Elling: Yeah.
Roxanne Roberts: and you're watching a show about a very cold, desolate place.
Kurt Elling: Okay, I'm going with Roxanne on this then.
Peter Sagal: I think you're wise to do so, she's right and so are you! Yes, that's what happened. [applause] He was up in his cabin, [applause] he was watching Northern Exposure and there's an episode of the show in which they came out and they started wishing each other a bon hiver or good winter and that's the name of the band and it went from there.
Link // transcribed from Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me // NPR // February 11, 2012
A. When he was reading the Harry Potter books out loud to his kids and he started singing in his Dobby the House Elf voice. B. He said the vision for the band came to him while he was laid up with mononucleosis and watching Norther Exposure on TV. Or C. It started as a U2 tribute band and somebody said he was even "Bono-er than Bono".
Kurt Elling: Doesn't Bon Iver mean good winter?
Peter Sagal: It, it might.
Roxanne Roberts: Think about Northern Exposure.
Kurt Elling: I was thinking about Northern Exposure...
Roxanne Roberts: I mean you already won.
Kurt Elling: and mono as a combination.
Roxanne Roberts: Well, I mean, you're flat on your back...
Kurt Elling: Yeah.
Roxanne Roberts: and you're watching a show about a very cold, desolate place.
Kurt Elling: Okay, I'm going with Roxanne on this then.
Peter Sagal: I think you're wise to do so, she's right and so are you! Yes, that's what happened. [applause] He was up in his cabin, [applause] he was watching Northern Exposure and there's an episode of the show in which they came out and they started wishing each other a bon hiver or good winter and that's the name of the band and it went from there.
Link // transcribed from Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me // NPR // February 11, 2012
Be Your Own Guinea Pig: Entering Andrea Zittel's 'Critical Space'
I always reference this Jerry Brown quote where he was talking about the importance of becoming a 'citizen' versus just becoming a 'consumer', says Zittel. I worry that we've become so conditioned as consumers that we're only capable of choosing from the options that are presented to us. We need to remember we're capable of creating other options, that there's a whole other world of possibilities beyond what we're being offered.
Link // Arty Nelson // LA Weekly // April 2007
Link // Arty Nelson // LA Weekly // April 2007
Charles and Ray always had a highly refined sense of occasion.
With the Eamses, photography was part of the design process, a way of discovering and exploring.
Charles and Ray had a deep respect for effort that had gone before. It was not a matter of avoiding work, but rather of avoiding the pitfalls of pursuing novelty for its own sake.
The hands on process, the ability to do something over and over until it was right, was the key.
The mistakes made and thus the lessons learned from the miserable first tries would be India's, and the country might internalize the knowledge and build from these trials and errors.
Eames Demetrios // found in An Eames Primer
Andrea Zittel
Her work breathes a feeling of freedom, autonomy and self-determination; we can read in it a responsible attitude to life. She also organizes her daily life and activities in such a way as to foster conservation as far as possible.
Zittel views concept, method and praxis as one and the same; care for one's self and for the environment is a way of giving meaning to life in a world in which micro and macro, the individual and the environment are all organically linked.
Andrea Zittel
Things that you think are liberating can actually become extremely confining or restrictive or oppressive and things that you think are controlling can actually give you a greater sense of security and liberation.
Link // Andrea Zittel // Art 21
10 Ideas and A Secret Mission
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do ... How would I be? What would I do? -Buckminster Fuller
Link // Keri Smith // Nowhere Island
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