Sam Furness
@samfurness
Designing collective experiences and beautiful things that cultivate curiosity and creative ways of being.
Sam Furness
channeltwelve.co.uk
- “There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down.
Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed ... See morefrom A quote from Slowness
- " participatory dance, an act of the imagination, in which the reader animates and transforms the static into the kinetic and brings it to life. "
from Reopen Your Eyes 👀👁️ by Jim O'Shaughnessy
Nick Sousanis
✨Something to pin above your desk✨ If you pre-order ALL FOURS from participating independent bookstores across the US, you will also receive this limited-edition broadside with a quote from the novel. That’s my quasi-legible handwriting and drawing and it’s printed with nice raised-lettering and a color gradient that matches the cover. The link in my bio has a list of participating indies nationwide; just find your nearest bookstore. Only available while supplies last! “There did not have to be an answer to the question why; everything important started out mysterious and this mystery was like a great sea you had to be brave enough to cross.” —Miranda July, ALL FOURS
Lastly, because I'm in this emailing you mode right now -- I was working in a banana plantation yesterday out of sheer fun/curiosity before I become a working professional next week. While there, my friend and I were chatting with the ray of light man who runs the production and who was imparting his incredible banana knowledge on us. At one p
... See more- I even resisted sitting at a desk, so my studio mates rarely saw me, and most of my work was done in nature, underneath trees, by the water, and sometimes in cafés, galleries, and the botanical garden. And the rest was a vast, empty space that I didn’t know how to navigate any more than I knew how to start drawing from a blank piece of paper.
from Everything you want is on the other side of “should.” by Martina Gobec
- “ Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity , a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose sides .” Tony Schwartz
from Six Mindsets for Successful Co-Creation
