T. and I found ourselves at Deepak Chopra’s HomeBase, a long, low space on the mezzanine of ABC Carpet & Home, this Wednesday listening to the guru of human potential, totality and centeredness have a conversation with Rudolph Tanzi, a Harvard neuro-scienctist and geneticist, about the mystery of memory. This was my first exposure to […]
< My 12 year old is being taught how to keep a writer’s notebook in his English class. It’s a wonderful gift that he approaches with un-self conscious enthusiasm. Here’s a page.
Some photographs do us the favor of stopping us in a place. Look into this old barn. You couldn’t stand in front of it long enough in real life. Your legs would start to hurt, your mind would walk away, you would have places to go. It isn’t that your life is too hurried or that […]
Being good at being a human is like getting certified to fly with instruments: it takes hours of training and we rarely get it right the first time. In a blog post last fall, anthropologist Melvin Konner wrote his excitement about the new science developing that would influence the study of the human condition. He framed […]
A Japanese poet once wrote that there is no utility in metaphor, that in the modern world the only valuable expression is of words that are specific to one thing. This is language as the table of existential elements: when used precisely, words make an objective reality that we can use to breach the gaps between […]
From Pictorymag.com. Urban use, disuse and decay from Detroit. Buildings have a contextual identity when they are in use, even when they are deteriorating. They take on a measure of human intent. When buildings are dismantled, they lose their identity, becoming as random as any natural encounter. The juxtaposition of use, disuse and decay creates […]
via youtube.com I love typefaces. So do these guys. And they like music. And they aren’t particularly self-conscious. And they’ve got access to video editing skills. The outcome: Fun.