Erikc Perez-Perez
@perez
Chicago photographer.
Erikc Perez-Perez
perezx.com
People think freedom is the power to change what you dislike about the world around you.
You can quit a job you hate. Leave a person who hurts you. Switch cities for a change of scenery. Chop your hair for a new look.
What freedom actually is: the power to change what you dislike about yourself.
Julie Zhuo • The Looking Glass: Prioritize until it hurts
Cameron, you’ve said that when you’re not feeling particularly creative, you listen to a song, or watch a movie, or read a book, and before long you get “the urge to respond.” We typically hear the creative act described as, you know, there’s a void, and a flash of lighting cracks through it. But I really like that idea of response as intrinsic to... See more
[Film] Directors are generalists who become specialists in vision.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
– Peter Drucker
All desire is a desire for being.”
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
But here's what troubles me about this whole arrangement: we know belief isn't built on truth. It's built on repetition .
stepfanie tyler • thinking about thinking
years ago someone suggested using the word devotion instead of discipline and I swear it’s the only reason I am so committed to the things that I love ~ bc devotion is an act of love ~ while discipline feels like an act of force
viendasubstack.comWhat’s for you won’t pass you.
