August 2008
22 posts
“What are these humans doing? Dancing. Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of...”
– Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth, Astronomy Picture of the Day
“[T]his sort of aesthetic/artsy approach to contemporary culture is increasingly...”
– Wax Scrawls, Nav (on Diana Kimball)
“This week I had a chance to think about the idea of America. I also had a...”
– A Summer To-Do List — Words and Images for Our Soul, Dean Kenneth Elmore, Boston University
“It is quite important… to let people...
“I kept returning to this thought: what would it do to a community to have a...”
– Generational Theater, Brian Eno (Long Now Blog list)
“With music fading out of the physical medium, I think music is moving toward an...”
– Interview, Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk)
“This remix culture where everything is recycled is a sign of the times. Every...”
– Interview, Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk)
“Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although...”
– Skinny Legs and All (1990), Tom Robbins
“Where pleasure matters is if you have both engagement and you have meaning.”
– What Positive Psychology Can Help You Become, Martin Seligman
“Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs...”
– Jazz Messenger, Haruki Murakami (This is one of those hardly-ephemeral compositions I print out and stick on my wall.)
“An egg timer can time anything—it’s my calling it an egg timer that limits...”
– Language Limits Us, Dan Liebert Other notables: Student Days Family
“When I focus on getting eyes, I start writing for emotional buzz. I start...”
– What I Want to Build, Jon Swanson
“As he described the intricacies of his plan… he sounded not so much a...”
– Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling, Mattathias Schwartz
“And then everything changed. And it changed forever. Everything came to a single...”
– 4th Screen, Nokia
“Children are the future we send to the future… This summer, we’re...”
– A Powerful Idea About Teaching Ideas, Alan Kay (TED)
I started homage to because
I want to show people what inspires me, what makes me cry, what causes me to laugh, what causes my brain to crouch leap and fly out of the covert vault that is my cranium. I want to inspire others with these words that have set flint to steel and lit the spark inside me to reveal who I am.
“The kids will work harder than they’ve ever worked in their life if they...”
– Once Upon a School, Dave Eggers (TED)
“[T]his is slightly more about paper than it is about airplane.”
– Making Digital Durable, Clay Shirky
“What are stories but mystery boxes!”
– The Mystery Box, J.J. Abrams (TED)
“[T]hey start to look less like an infectious joke than like a new cultural...”
– An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube, Michael Wesch (quoting Douglas Wolk)
July 2008
6 posts
“I was born as deaf and as quiet as a starfish, but if I had been born a man I...”
– I work sometimes at a high school for deaf kids, Rives
“[A]mateur culture, by which I don’t mean amateurish culture, I mean...”
– How Creativity is Being Strangled By the Law, Lawrence Lessig
“The fucking thing was begging to be held, passed around, shared, pinned up,...”
– Shake It Like a Metaphorical Picture, Jason Santa Maria
“Write well, write often, and write with passion. It seems if you can manage...”
– Tacky, Big Contrarian, Jack Shedd.
“[O]n color as a storytelling device…”
– Color in 101 Dalmatians: an introduction, Oswald Iten
“Fiction is a way of, finally, knowing what others are thinking. That’s...”
– In the Absence of Fiction, Diana Kimball