December 2009
44 posts
Dec 31st
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work & an unremitting devotion...”
– Frank Lloyd Wright | Quotes on Design
Dec 30th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Mendelayev (42) Kira Neris (8) Johan Tikkanen (3) Finale (2) Tycho (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 29th
“To make pearls, you’ve got to eat dirt.”
– Frank Chimero
Dec 28th
Dec 27th
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go”
– T.S. Eliot
Dec 26th
“I don’t think that one should sit and look at a blank page. The way around...”
– Garrison Keillor: Start With the Observable World :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
Dec 25th
Dec 24th
“It’s so easy to fool yourself into thinking that you’re working hard. It’s so...”
– Robert Caro, baller. (via langer)
Dec 23rd
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“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things...”
– Coach John Wooden | Quotes on Design Seems I’m forever beating my writing students over the head with this one.
Dec 22nd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Dorian Concept (48) Dimlite (32) Squarepusher (30) Prefuse 73 (19) The Clonious (16) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 21st
“To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as...”
– Joan Didion (via bobulate)
Dec 21st
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“When it comes to “receiving” a poem, I can’t really believe I’m worthy of any...”
– How a Poem Happens: Philip Pardi
Dec 20th
“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump...”
– George Lucas (via i-peach-feng-shui) (via minimalmac)
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
“you can speak the same language and still people don’t understand you”
– Lemn Sissay :: The Brazillian Students in the shadow of Sylvia Plath.
Dec 18th
Ariston Anderson: Do you have a particular writing process?
Jonathan Ames: No, it's the usual writing process. Fear, plus coffee, plus deadlines.
Ariston Anderson: What was your process before you had deadlines?
Jonathan Ames: 
Fear, plus coffee. And napping. Lying down after a slight bit of exertion.
(http: //the99percent.com/articles/6162/jonathan-ames-fear-of-everything)
Dec 16th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Squarepusher (26) Dorian Concept (17) I’m Not a Gun (17) Radiohead (17) The Clonious (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 15th
“To be outstanding - get comfortable with being uncomfortable.”
– Alrik Koudenburg (via ninakix)
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
“Well, I don’t know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we...”
– Cormac McCarthy on The Road - WSJ.com
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
“Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held it’s ground”
– (via doblog)
Dec 12th
Dec 11th
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
– Bruce Lee (via hiten: infoneernet) (via ninedaysoff) Simple, but oh so true…
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am, I know I am not a...”
– GOOD Guide: R. Buckminster Fuller - Guide to Buckminster Fuller - GOOD
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
“Language constantly fails me. That’s why I continue writing.”
– Charles Simic (via thebronzemedal) (via tsunamis) (via astroblemes) If I was ever going to get a tattoo, this would be it…
Dec 10th
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“…one of the earliest things we learn to do in life is how to write and it’s something we use until the day we die and Graffiti Artists know more then most how important and powerful type can be, from something as basic as scrawling a name on a wall to creating a huge piece on the side of a building to get a message out…” Zero Cool’s ‘Don’t Believe...
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
“There’s only one way to become good at something: 1. First, you must learn it...”
– The Only Way to Become Amazingly Great at Something
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Me’Shell NdegéOcello (90) The Clonious (58) Misel Quitno (33) Blakroc (28) From Twilight till Dawn (27) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 8th
“My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven....”
– Cormac McCarthy on The Road - WSJ.com
Dec 7th
“Delete unimportant things. Even if you love them. If it isn’t spectacular, it...”
– From Frank Chimero’s 10 Principles That May Make Your Work Better Or May Make It Worse, originally published on AisleOne. (via matthewb)
Dec 6th
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doblog: If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. Benjamin Franklin Let’s do both
Dec 5th
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“…ranting won’t take you very far. At some point—the sooner the...”
– Kathryn Stripling Byer - How a Poem Happens
Dec 4th
Dec 3rd
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“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via reluctantbuddha) (via artsmonkey)
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →
Me’Shell NdegéOcello (37) Shafiq Husayn (29) Misel Quitno (19) Dorian Concept (14) Ogris Debris (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 1st