January 2012
2 posts
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back....”
– Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
Murakami always has a crazy poetic way of describing the nuances of feelings like nostalgia, euphoria, loneliness. I enjoy his work often for the thematic relevance and always for how each thought is carefully crafted.
Currently on: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle....
December 2011
4 posts
this just makes me miss him more.
Dad: At work in SF now?
me: yes
me: HI APPA I MISS YOU
Dad: Enjoy your work. Always think out of box as you work on anything. That will bring your values to the team or company at the end. What I've learned over past times is to always invest your times for something else or new.
mastersamuel:
Coeur de pirate - Saint-Laurent
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10 Things 90s Kids Will Have To Explain To Their... →
November 2011
7 posts
“I think you tend to get critical of the people you get close to.”
– Oy. What a timely, accurate, and yet still gentle rebuke.
“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because...”
– Nicole Krauss
How to be a person/novelist →
bobulate:
Murakami on how being obsessed with music helped him be a novelist (emphasis mine):
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won’t keep reading your work. I learned the importance of rhythm from music — and mainly from jazz. Next comes melody — which, in literature, means the appropriate...
Gavin DeGraw - Soldier
“If you have a skill that allows you to make things, it’s really important...”
– Khoi Vinh
October 2011
2 posts
On Blogging Again
Been nearly silent on this for about two full months. I don’t know what got into me (or maybe I do), but it’s time I started mind-dumping a bit more. There’s too much stuff taking residence in my brain these days!
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For your ears and soul:
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via bobulate)
September 2011
6 posts
4 tags
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
viafrank:
Each time one hears, “Stand clear of the closing doors,” a tiny social experiment begins. The regular subway passengers plug in, look at screens, stare at the ground; the tourists scan the maps, crouch down to read the stop names that are blazoned across the pillars as each platform rolls by. Occasionally, their face will slacken into a distressed, wide-eyed “Oh Jesus, what-the-eff”...
August 2011
20 posts
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6 tags
miracles dont produce faith, faith produces...
emyang:
therefore, dream big. dream deep and wide and with every new day. pursue the company of dreamers, but most of all the presence of the Dream-giver.
2 tags
WatchOof.
“Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, a long rehearsal for a show that...”
– Amélie
Feelin’ this quote. Except I want my life to be a show that’ll keep playing on and on.
6 tags
Top 5 Monday Links
Infographic website: We’re all about maps & infographics these days. This shows income levels in NYC—informative, interesting, and beautiful. Explore
Campaign: Uniqlo USA does a New York campaign. It’s pretty sweet: www.uniqlo.com/nycvoices
Album: Jay-Z & Kanye West’s “Watch the Throne” Stream it here
Creative person: Masashi Kawamura, ex-BBH art director...
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so you can be violent and original in your...”
– Gustave Flaubert
(via junehokim)
LOL-worthy gchat moments with Dad #587
Dad: Long time no talk. H A Y
Me: LOL does H A Y mean how are you? i'm doing well. you?
Dad: Good talk to you later
“I’ve spent years in used bookstores and magazine shops looking, admiring, and...”
– Rodrigo Corral on his creative process. I feel ya, RC.
I’m pretty sure he’s responsible for my “buy a book based on its jacket design” problem. He makes books look high quality both physically and literarily. (Yes, that is a real word.)
July 2011
28 posts
“I’m a 24 year old college graduate that doesn’t read. Of course, I’ve read...”
– From a comment on an excerpt from Alan Jacobs’ excellent The Pleasure of Reading in an Age of Distraction over at The Chronicle of Higher Education. (I suggest you pick up Jacobs’ book, if only to read his thoughts on what it means to read for Whim.)
I think one of the most sad things is to not...
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17 Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 1:17
I need to find a way to travel to these places.
What Apple Has that Google Doesn't →
keepsdiary:
Great article from The New York Times. I bolded my favorite parts so you can just skim and read those.
“AT Apple, one is the magic number.
One person is the Decider for final design choices. Not focus groups. Not data crunchers. Not committee consensus-builders. The decisions reflect…
Andalé!
If you haven’t seen this go down all week, get on it.
My two cents: Fabio needs to take acting lessons (although his hair doesn’t), OldSpiceGuy has amazing memorization skills, and this campaign is pretty awesome. Again.
The title of this song is pretty relevant. (thanks...
“Your peers are weak sauce and you are Sriracha.”
– Cameron Koczon on his blog post about internships.
Best. line. Ever.
