March 2011
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Manifesto for His Apprentices
1. An honest ego in a healthy body. 2. An eye to see nature 3. A heart to feel nature 4. Courage to follow nature 5. The sense of proportion (humor) 6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work 7. Fertility of imagination 8. Capacity for faith and rebellion 9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance 10. Instinctive cooperation Source:...
Mar 3rd
January 2011
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“A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.”
Jan 3rd
December 2010
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Dec 29th
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The Painting Techniques of Mark Rothko: No. 16... →
Dec 21st
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Louis Vuitton. I think it is one of the greatest commercials ever. I can’t even call it a commercial. It is a great film. Wherever I go, I always have these words in mind: ”What is a journey? A journey is not a trip. It’s not a vacation. it’s a process. A discovery. It’s a process of self-discovery. A journey brings us face to face with ourselves. A journey shows us...
Dec 19th
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Tim Burton →
Another exhibition website that I like a lot - Tim Burton at MoMA (New York).
Dec 19th
There are 3 times more stars in the universe than previously estimated: new calculation is 300 sextillion. That’s a 3 with 23 zeros after it.
Dec 19th
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http://www.monet2010.com/en#/home/ →
Brilliant website of Monet exhibition in Paris
Dec 19th
30 Second Speech by Bryan Dyson, Former CEO of...
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. They are Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four Balls - Family, Health, Friends and Spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be...
Dec 18th
“Genius is eternal patience.”
– Michelangelo
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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A very interesting lecture given by Danish architect Kristian Villadsen (Gehl Architects) in Montreal. Topics: urban planning in Copenhagen, cold and hot climates. Language: English, subtitles: Russian
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Official Ralph Lauren 4D Experience (New York)
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ →
New service by Google: ‘Using this tool, you can compare words and phrases from several languages across centuries by charting their frequency in books, an exercise that can shed light on everything from rock stars and religious figures to gender studies and epidemiology. Simply enter one word, or several. Then click the wildly understated “Search lots of books.” Observe and marvel. ...
Dec 18th
“- Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from here? - That depends...”
– Lewis Carroll ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Dec 18th
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a...”
– Yann Martel “Life of Pi”
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
“An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.”
– Arab proverb
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
“Art tells you things you don’t know you need to know until you know them”
– Peter Schjeldahl (art critic)
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
Dec 17th
“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Dec 17th