The New Romantics
Dr. Gage studies how certain activities can stimulate the growth of new cells in the brain. “I think if you’re doing complex work that involves making decisions and planning, that may matter more than whether you’re using your hands,” he said.
Working With Your Hands Is Good for Your Brain - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
. As author Leah Price put it in her book How to Do Things with Nooks in Victorian Britain: “Once a sign of economic power, reading is now the province of those whose time lacks market value.”
Georgina Elliott • Why don’t straight men read novels?
Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not.”
Austin Kleon • Give Yourself What You Needed Then and Give Your Kids What They Need Now
Basic dynamic in life: there is nothing meaningful enough to make you happy that could not make you sad if you lost it. This is the paradox of feeling, and it’s inherent and existential. If things inspire real positive emotion in you then they are necessarily things in which you are sufficiently invested that you would feel negative emotions when... See more
freddiedeboer.substack.com • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
In a culture obsessed with speed, certainty, and specialization, Leonardo’s secret feels almost rebellious: take your time, learn widely, think deeply.
Eric Markowitz • What Leonardo’s obsession with water teaches us about longevity
Here on my screen was the distillation of a peculiar American illness: namely, that we have a profound and dangerous inclination to confuse art with moral instruction, and vice versa.
Opinion | Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable
You Don’t Have To Make Art
The early chorus of generative AI tools:
“Now everyone can make art regardless of their skills or tools.”
Could you not make art before? Even elephants can paint. Our ancestors created well known art by etching with a stone into the walls of the caves they called home. A kid with a box of discount crayons has no problem