David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
"Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden."
- Voltaire
- Voltaire
South Africa, MLB Leaderboards, and Return of the Pandas
Roland Allen’s The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper . Allen points out that “people often start diaries in times of upheaval,”
Austin Kleon • Against prognosticating
Super~Goods
supergoods.today
Our photographs are not memories; they are advertisements, billboards for a life we are too preoccupied to live.
M. E. Rothwell • All Hail the Cloud
The internet is (mostly) a machine for light things.
Anu Atluru • Make Something Heavy.
I contend that the creator is an individual who manages a most formidable challenge: to wed the most advanced understandings achieved in a domain with the kinds of problems, questions, issues, and sensibilities that most characterized his or her life as a wonder-filled child.
Austin Kleon • Questions without answers
Most of today’s young people have never had that experience and, as a result, have no idea why it is important to seek out places for quiet study and contemplation.
The Rational Walk • The Thirty Second Mind
Q: Who are your favorite artists in any genre, classic or contemporary? Your favorite writers? Where did you get those shoes?
A: It has to be Goya ‘s Caprichios at the time of the Spanish Inquisition and the Napoleonic Wars. (See Milos Foreman ‘s Goya’s Ghosts which shows the awesome connections.) I love Picasso ‘s freedom. Leonardo da Vinci, of... See more
A: It has to be Goya ‘s Caprichios at the time of the Spanish Inquisition and the Napoleonic Wars. (See Milos Foreman ‘s Goya’s Ghosts which shows the awesome connections.) I love Picasso ‘s freedom. Leonardo da Vinci, of... See more