David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
I should just write down and publish all of the best ideas I’ve ever had, as quickly and casually as I can, in succession.
Justin Murphy • On Idea Hoarding
Dewey Decimal!
PTSD is literally defined as being “marked by an inability to construct a coherent story of our past.”
Phoebe Tickell • New Deep Narratives: We Need New Stories of What It Means to Be Human
"The Chinese say you need three things for paintings: the hand, the eye and the heart,” says the painter David Hockney. “I think that remark is very, very good. Two won’t do. A good eye and heart is not enough, neither is a good hand and eye.”
Head, heart, hands
Our strength should not be measured by our ability to push away our tech, but by our ability to hold and live with tech in peace.
Matt Klein • Unplugging Is Not the Solution You Want
"No wonder that men who live day in and day out with such machines and become dependent on them begin to believe that men are merely machines. They are reflecting what they themselves have become."
Introducing Woolgather
“I came in with very small ideas,” says Josh Vana, a sculptural artist and former student of Steinbach, “Like they were technically okay, but they were small ... We showed up to that first critique, and he was like, ‘go bigger’ and it gave me the freedom to create–to go absolutely nuts and crazy.”
The artist’s playbook
Don’t even mention dating or — gasp — sex when the simple act of looking into someone else’s eyes provokes anxiety. But what could they do? Give up their phones and the corporate-controlled, like-driven culture, which is all they’ve ever known? Silent scream emoji!