To give you pause: If we treated physical illness like we do mental illness. Complement with a fascinating read on mood science and the evolutionary origins of depression and artist Bobby Baker’s courageous visual diary of mental illness.
Truth.
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Deus Ex Machina Launches Pop-Up Shop at Freemans… typophile
My heart just skipped a beat. Or two. More like five.
Stellar by Hasselblad
Tinky Winky lived here. I would not lie to you.
—Dorn
Window shopping, NYC
—Dorn
“Looking is benign. Seeing has teeth and comes with consequences. You see it, you own it. Sometimes it owns you.”
Jane Dorn (photographer)
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/03/jane-dorn-photography/
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Seth Godin wrote a children’s book for grownups about vulnerability and creative courage, illustrated by Hugh MacLeod, and it’s absolutely wonderful.
“I swear to every heaven ever imagined,
if I hear one more dead-eyed hipster
tell me that art is dead, I will personally summon Shakespeare
from the grave so he can tell them every reason
why he wishes he were born in a time where
he could have a damn Gmail account.
The day after I taught my mother
how to send pictures over Iphone she texted
me a blurry image of our cocker spaniel ten times in a row.
Don’t you dare try to tell me that that is not beautiful.
But whatever, go ahead and choose to stay in
your backwards-hoping-all-inclusive club
while the rest of us fall in love over Skype.
Send angry letters to state representatives,
as we record the years first sunrise so
we can remember what beginning feels like when
we are inches away from the trigger.
Lock yourself away in your Antoinette castle
while eat cake and tweet to the whole universe that we did.
Hashtag you’re a pretentious ass hole.
Van Gogh would have taken 20 selflies a day.
Sylvia Plath would have texted her lovers
nothing but heart eyed emojis when she ran out of words.
Andy Warhol would have had the worlds weirdest Vine account,
and we all would have checked it every morning while we
Snap Chat our coffee orders to the people
we wish were pressed against our lips instead of lattes.
This life is spilling over with 85 year olds
rewatching JFK’s assassination and
7 year olds teaching themselves guitar over Youtube videos.
Never again do I have to be afraid of forgetting
what my fathers voice sounds like.
No longer must we sneak into our families phonebook
to look up an eating disorder hotline for our best friend.
No more must I wonder what people in Australia sound like
or how grasshoppers procreate.
I will gleefully continue to take pictures of tulips
in public parks on my cellphone
and you will continue to scoff and that is okay.
But I hope, I pray, that one day you will realize how blessed
you are to be alive in a moment where you can google search
how to say I love you in 164 different languages.”
b.e.fitzgerald (Art is a Facebook status about your winter break.)
This.
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OH.
Fast. Windows down.
You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stickout teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl in The Twits
Song: “Beautiful” by Eleni Mandell
And make sure you put in a little personality. You have one. It’s a major part of you. You might as well own it. Besides, people hire people they like, not resumes they like.
Jessica Hagy of Indexed fame explores how to stand out in a cover letter. Or, just follow the immeasurably brilliant example of young Eudora Welty’s application letter to The New Yorker.
Hagy and Welty? Absolutely.
Television: Vignelli
The Vignellis did a overall program for the Italian national television’s (RAI) second channel (Tg2), including designing the news studio in Rome. We found this example of the identity for the station, which is still in use today. Notice the bright “neon” colors and the square pen that fits perfectly in the fold.
Italian National television station RAI, channel Tg2 graphic identity folder [with stickers, business card, pad of paper, and pen], circa 1988
22 1/2 cm x 32 cm
Box 579, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Forever Vignelli
Photo typophile