Philipp Rimmler
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Philipp Rimmler
- Circa 1025 A.D. Ibn Sina (Avicenna) said, "The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."
from Roy Casagranda: About Me
- Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the sense or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind ... if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say HIM, [sic] it says nothi... See more
from Issue #341: How to Earn Money from Your Writing by Miguel
- The idea is that the picture in its
frame
should give the illusion of being a window through which the immobile
eye
of the observer looks at an outside 3-dimensional world. (Alberti speaks of the canvas as ``an open window through which I see what I want to paint.'')from alberti-1
To be modern is to experience personal and social life as a maelstrom, to find one’s world and oneself in perpetual disintegration and renewal, trouble and anguish, ambiguity and contradiction: to be part of a universe in which all that is solid melts into air. To be a modernist is to make oneself somehow at home in the maelstrom, to make its rhyth
... See morefrom make some NOISE!!! by Reggie James
Now the point of this myth is the fact that men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media - The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosisfrom In Search of New Software Cultures
- What brands have realized is, you can create a “halo effect” around this that drives revenue for your brand. People line up to buy the limited edition stuff, and if they don’t get it, they still buy something less exclusive because they have already decided that your brand is cool and desirable and they want to advocate.
from The evolution of Energy Marketing from Street Culture to Main Street by Reggie Casagrande
- “To live externally is to live more dangerously,” Moskowitz writes, of giving up the constant inward gaze. “It is to live a life that takes up public space, a life that is messy and confusing and thus a life that is often frowned upon, especially in an era in which everyone is accustomed to control and curation over social space and affect.”
from #180: Against Self-Analysis
- Caring what other people think is human and often learning and getting feedback on how one can improve is key to success so not living in other people’s minds does not mean not listening to or caring what other people say or think.
It means stopping using their metrics and their rulers of success to rule the way we live our life.
If nobody was lookin... See morefrom Exercising Belief.
- This aesthetic is functional maximalism, and is the outcome of the post-gorpcore, post-genre fashion, changed urban lifestyles, our mass embrace of nature, TikTok creative influences, and a pushback to the omnipresent minimalism. Functional maximalism is fashion’s expansion of its own aesthetic vocabulary, with tokens from sports, outdoors, gender ... See more
from The age of functional maximalism