Robin Harford
@robin
I am a multi-disciplinary artist.
Robin Harford
robinharford.com
Subtle shifts in language can sometimes have surprising consequences. The language of attention seems particularly loaded with economic and value-oriented metaphors, such as when we speak of paying attention or imagine our attention as a scarce resource we must either waste or horde. However, to my ears, the related language of attending to the... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Attending to the World
The unseen dangers of lead contamination in the UK
ft.comSteve Jobs: How to design insanely great products
Design Philosophy:
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
• If users need a manual, the design has failed • Eliminate unnecessary buttons, features, and complexity • Focus on making the product intuitive and obvious to use
Question everything about the current design
• Challenge every assumption about
... See moreFreesound
freesound.org
Awesome collection of free sounds.
First, you have to get comfortable with the idea that your model will always be incomplete and partially wrong. Always. You could spend your entire life refining your understanding of how to write a novel, and you'd still learn more from writing one bad novel than from all that study. The territory is infinitely richer than any map can capture.
The Map Is Not the Territory (and It’s Definitely Not Progress)
Joan Westenberg
Many of us experience life as if we’re taking it in through a pair of headphones. We strip away the full register. We hear information, but don’t detect the subtler vibrations of feeling in the body. When you practice listening with the whole self, you expand the scope of your consciousness to include vast amounts of information otherwise missed,
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The inspiration for the book shop I found myself in is Morioka Shoten, “a single room with a single book” store, in Tokyo. It sells only one book. More precisely, it sells multiple copies of one title that changes weekly, with a small book-inspired art exhibition. It has spawned a network of similar book stores all around the world.
Creativity and Ideas
One Book
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. What is a day? What is a year? What is summer? What is woman? What is a child? What is sleep? To our blindness, these things seem unaffecting. We make fables to hide the baldness of the fact and conform it, as we say, to the higher law of the mind. But when the fact is seen... See more