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Clementine Kruczynski: “Hi.”
Joel Barish: “I’m sorry?”
Clementine: “I just said hi.”
Joel: “Hi, hello… hi.”
If you don’t take money they can’t tell you what to do.
Via Nickel Cobalt by way of William Yan. Quote by Todd Hido.
Deeply held beliefs of any kind prevent you from being open to experience, which is why I find all firmly held ideological positions questionable. It makes me nervous when someone believes too deeply or too much. I think that being sceptical and questioning all deeply held beliefs is essential. Of course we must know the difference between scepticism and cynicism because cynicism is as much a restriction of one’s openness to the world as passionate belief is.
From Ten Things I Have Learned by Milton Glaser, from point 8 – Doubt is better than Certainty.
I’ve never thought of Art School having the “Ayn Rand model”
(via krislane)
“You have to really like people to be a good designer. It’s not a solitary activity.” — Jonathan Barnbrook via littleconstellations.
I like Jonathan. I know people who don’t (who don’t agree with him or his work, I should say). Friends. Good friends. Great designers. I saw him speak at the HOW conference in 2003. A lot of people walked out of the small room. A friend of mine walked out — maybe a couple of my friends.
After his talk, I approached him. He walked and talked with me. He wasn’t in a hurry. He was genuinely interested — we walked. We talked. He was kind, and encouraging. He’ll be speaking at DesignThinkers 2010 in Ontario (site was down when I posted). I’ve signed up to hear him speak. Again.
Above: the Mori Arts Center Identity — a favorite of mine from the days when Jonathan might have said he doesn’t really design identities.
Who is toothless on today’s streets?
Sex Pigeon says: “Oh my goodness, like, everybody. The crackhead blocking your gate, the prostitute applying makeup to her sores. Teeth are just an ugly vestige of crunchier times. Teeth are just boring and stupid.”
Via Designing books: practice and theory by Jost Hochuli and Robin Kinross (Hyphen Press)… “…a brief quotation from Immanuel Kant…”
‘Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!’.
From his essay, ‘An answer to the question: what is enlightenment?’
- Tim Noakes: Are you a control freak?
- Watkin Tudor Jones: Yes. Fucking unbelievably like hectically control freak, to the extreme. Like, if you're driving a car at high speed you have to like be in control you know.
We are all atheists about most of the Gods that humanity has ever believed in, some of us just go one God further.
The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Complacency scares me more than most things.
You can take pictures anywhere; if you have a mind to do so. It is a little bit more difficult to take pictures, where you live. Simply because the stimulus is usually very similar.
I am reminded of the importance of direct, clear communication in the presence of the wandering and ambiguous.
