Jamie Banks
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Jamie Banks
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
Kandinsky the painter believed that the aim of art was to transmit the artist’s uniqueness and inner vision, which necessitated the elevation of objective reality.
Art In Context • Wassily Kandinsky - A Portrait of Kandinsky the Artist
He would subsequently reflect on this encounter: “The brochure advised me that it was a haystack. I had no idea what that was. This non-recognition was excruciatingly distressing for me. The painter, in my opinion, had no right to depict incoherently. I had a distinct impression that the painting’s subject was absent. And I was surprised and
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The scene might call to mind a time gone by, the passage of time, and our eventual decay. But what if you shifted your focus from the barn to the background—the field, the hills beyond. What might you see? What might you learn?
Perhaps you’d notice how the native vegetation took over the fallow field in the first ten years, and the new species of
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Conversations with Contributors: Justin Wymer - The Adroit Journal
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How to learn writing: immerse in role models.
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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