Jamie Banks
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Jamie Banks
How to learn writing: immerse in role models.
While it’s probably one of the corniest things I’ll ever write in this column, I’ve come to believe that developing taste is not so unlike going to therapy; it’s an inefficient, time-consuming process that mostly entails looking inward and identifying whatever already moves you. It’s the product of devouring ideas, images and pieces of culture not... See more
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
I call this “satisfied tired”—the kind of tired I feel after a late night in my classroom prepping for the next time students come in, then meeting with parents, then glancing back at my classroom with my hand on the light switch as I walk out the door.
We should let AI force us to get REAL creative and different, not dig our heels in on details of craft competing in its domain.
More precious craft isn’t the way; bolder redesign is.
Conversations with Contributors: Justin Wymer - The Adroit Journal
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It harkens back to the early days of the web when people had fewer notions of how websites " should be .”
Maggie Appleton 🧭 • A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Modernism and
Kandinsky’s paintings from this time are huge, emotive colored masses that are judged independently of shapes and lines; these no longer serve to delimit them, but instead, overlap freely to produce paintings of tremendous energy.
Art In Context • Wassily Kandinsky - A Portrait of Kandinsky the Artist
“The keyboard is color, the eyes are hammers, and the heart is a piano with several strings. The musician is the hand that plays, feeling one note or another in order to create vibrations in one’s soul.”