the start of an idea

starting well, the beginning of a project, that kind of stuff

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. -Muhammad Ali

sari

BBC Radio 6 Music on TikTok

vm.tiktok.com

JJames Stevens

🥰that he needed a opening line to unlock the song.

🥰how he discovered that lyric.

🥰the song that followed.

James Stevens

andrea

How to build a newthing

Yancey Strickler ideaspace.ystrickler.com

sari

If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar

Erikc Perez-Perez

alex

More generally, it’s not beginnings and ends that count, but middles. Things and thoughts advance or grow out from the middle, and that’s where you have to get to work, that’s where everything unfolds.

– Gilles Deleuze, On Leibniz

Alara

“I always say ‘beginnings are easy, endings are hard’. Beginnings get easier and easier [because] there's so much technological assistance [and] so many ways of getting something started like rhythm machines and chord pattern makers.

There are a lot of ways of getting something pretty respectable going quite early on. To quote Picasso, ‘there's... See more

aandrea

the case for slow and anti-hype, via Brian Eno