When one starts something new, everything resists. Material resists, environment resists, one’s own mind resists… Why? I don’t know but this is so. And so, one has to push through resistance to get to the enjoyable sailing. Like with learning anything, for example a new language, at the beginning all is slow and annoying and […]
My done list
DONE lists are more important than TO DO lists. They are better for you, more productive, more uplifting and generally nicer. Perhaps I’ll make that the one and only ting to do on my TO DO list – to write a DONE list at the end of the day… My DONE list for today […]
Holly Gurney Growing Up. SUR Music
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/153934708″ params=”auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”600″ iframe=”true” /] “Burning House” by Sur Music Here she is, the lovely, beautiful and talented Holly Gurney!
“All Weathers” Etching
This small etching is based on one of the street sketches I used to do, sitting in the window of my shop. Lots of people pass by our window all day long, with their dogs, kids, bags, zimmer-frames… One must be really focused to be able to catch the essence of the image – a […]
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Frank Quitely – note the idea
Found an interesting channel on Youtube, called Art documentaries. The clip I started watching is with Frank Quitely. Something caught my attention on minute 3.09, which I came here to promptly document for the future reference. The thing is this: So, this is about focusing. (Another synchronicity occurring for me today, showing what I am about […]
Meet Shigeru Ban, Winner of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Considered the Nobel Prize of architecture, the annual Pritzker Architecture Prize is given by Chicago’s Hyatt Foundation. It honors a living architect (or architects) whose built work demonstrates a combination of talent, vision and commitment, someone who has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. The 2014 winner is […]
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14 Excellent Parenting Tips From Louis CK
I don’t agree with some of his conclusions, like the one below, for instance. But this one I do agree with. Now, implementing it all of the time is a bit tricky… Right there, I think, he is talking to himself. I’d be talking to myself in this same situation. I am talking to myself […]
Steampunk and Other Beasts
Steampunk. Have you ever heard? Well, me, being an advanced culture-consumer, I’ve heard. I’ve read and loved Robert Rankin’s novels, many of which fall into that genre. But that was the extent of my familiarity with the Steampunk. What is it, I hear you ask. Many things apparently, all of which have something to […]
Architecture: Thrills of a Certain Lifestyle.
Prickly beasts are fortunately contained behind a glass! Nevertheless, they see you in the privacy of your bathroom, waving their fat thorny flappers at you, you – naked and warm, only just having emerged from the safety of your soft bed… They are waiting. Architecture Photography: Casa Talia / Vivian Haddad and Marco Giunta (9) […]
Practice Positive: 3 Things to Stop Saying to Your Home’s Visitors | Apartment Therapy
Years ago, when my older daughter was in her first year at the primary school, I and a couple of other mums were invited to a home of her schoolmate. Big family: four children aged between 1 and 7. Medium to small size house with ongoing improvements of various scale being done to its parts. […]