Lauren Crichton
@laurencrichton
Lauren Crichton
"What information, if we had it, would make this decision easy?"
Then: "What's the quickest way we can get that information?"
(Via Matt Lerner)
Was the Renaissance Real?
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it’s my therapist, journal, playlist, and shopping list all in one
// credit/permission: @ppyowna
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A new still life with all my favourite things . No2 of five to be completed for my exhibition at Celf Gallery Cardiff in November
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Can a sculpture be a poem?
Artist Saloua Raouda Choucair thought so. In the early 1960s, the Lebanese artist began creating what she called ‘sculptural poems’ using interlocking forms that could be rearranged in various formations.
'Poem of Nine Verses' is influenced by Sufi poetry, Islamic... See more
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Buenos Aires #notestostrangers pic by @hell__hanna
instagram.com“Our point is that you can you spend your whole life keep breaking on through. You can’t just break on through once and think, well, I’ve made it, I broke through.
There’s a million membranes to break through. There’s a million places to go. You know. You move to another direction, another dimension. Big deal. We went ... See more
instagram.comIn Dan Luu’s 95%-ile isn’t that good, he discusses people who claim they want to get better at a skill (his example is the video game Overwatch), but who regularly make egregious and easily-fixable mistakes. His conclusion is that in any given area of performance, most people can dramatically improve their abilities by addressing fairly obvious iss... See more
Maybe your desires are delusional
Almost everything that holds meaning, weight, and gravity, cannot be reached by a shortcut, by sheer force alone. But by acceptance. Acceptance that what you desire for can survive contact with the world, and will yield meaning. You have to devote the time it takes to inhabit the world, chip away at its interior. No one can break the shell for you!
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