18 5 / 2013

17 5 / 2013

bookshelfporn:

‘tsundoku’ - the Japanese word for buying books & not reading them, leaving them to pile up.

bookshelfporn:

‘tsundoku’ - the Japanese word for buying books & not reading them, leaving them to pile up.

17 5 / 2013

17 5 / 2013

15 5 / 2013

mylavaland:

Have you ever sat in a sermon, speech, lecture, or some other sort of discourse with many people in the room but you KNOW it was only for you? That very thing happened to me. I always thought that the moment would happen in a religious institution but it happened in one of the…

15 5 / 2013

14 5 / 2013

explore-blog:


When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician — make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor — make good art. IRS on your trail — make good art. Cat exploded — make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before — make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and that doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: Make good art. Make it on the bad days, make it on the good days, too.

Make Good Art – Neil Gaiman’s timeless advice on the creative life, adapted by design legend Chip Kidd.

explore-blog:

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician — make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor — make good art. IRS on your trail — make good art. Cat exploded — make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before — make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and that doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: Make good art. Make it on the bad days, make it on the good days, too.

Make Good ArtNeil Gaiman’s timeless advice on the creative life, adapted by design legend Chip Kidd.

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13 5 / 2013

mohandasgandhi:

Good luck to everyone who has finals this week! You all have beautiful minds. :)

Go into your exams with a positive, confident attitude. Being anxious or nervous can really destroy your focus and take a toll on your ability to pull things from your memory. Being calm and…

…good luck…

10 5 / 2013

09 5 / 2013

"It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any."

HL (via joyinthecity)

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