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Living and creativity
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The best part of creativity, Gilbert says, is the “dreaming process” in our imagination. She likens it to building a tourmaline butterfly (a butterfly made of gems) in our imagination. It’s beautiful, adorned with gems, and shimmering in the light.
In our imagination, our ideas are perfect . But when you try to bring them into reality, they can turn... See more
In our imagination, our ideas are perfect . But when you try to bring them into reality, they can turn... See more
Salman Ansari • Why Bother?
My personal dilemma over this has become increasingly pointed. I’ve turned my back on the flood of visual material being produced, but I’m struggling desperately in the hope of creating something a little better. In order to do so, I’ve even had to rationalize the art of navigating this world. I tell people I hate professionals, but I know that in
... See moreHayao Miyazaki • Starting Point: 1979-1996
It seems to me that if you’re going to focus on adolescence, it’s important both to show the beauty that becomes apparent at the time as well as the absolute complexity of life itself. All kinds of anime, alongside other regions of mass culture, suffer from their exclusivity. Focus on the topic at hand is important, but taking that too far makes it... See more
“Only a Teenager Could Like This!” – An Observation on Boogiepop Phantom, Gunslinger Girl, and Adolescent Dreariness
Nature x Humanity
youtu.be"Doesn't it strike you as interesting that we are in the second decade of the 21st century and a lot of the most interesting music is still being made by people playing very primitive instruments like electric guitars and drums.
I mean, what is a drum kit? It could be a bunch of old chairs or cans or anything. It's really quite an arbitrary bunch of... See more
I mean, what is a drum kit? It could be a bunch of old chairs or cans or anything. It's really quite an arbitrary bunch of... See more
We should immediately stop wasting money in the overhyped hopeless quantum computers, quantum communication, spintronics, AI, and allocate the money to developing useful multi-probe atomic force microscopes (= surprisingly, No money has been spent for this useful multi-probe atomic force microscopes for 40 years ) to clarify and cure diseases at th... See more
correct Bohr model of Helium, quantum mechanics is wrong
“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place ... See more
The Matter With Things Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
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Without the spiritual component, the artist works with a crucial disadvantage. The spiritual world provides a sense of wonder and a degree of open-mindedness not always found within the confines of science. The world of reason can be narrow and filled with dead ends, while a spiritual viewpoint is limitless and invites fantastic possibilities. The unseen world is boundless.