What & Whom Lessons Are Learned From

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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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I was sick of talking. Urban art allows us to speak louder than years of negotiating around a boardroom table. The pieces speak more to the community than any amount of verbal dialogue.

Catherine O’Halloran on the potential of urban art in Limerick, Ireland. (via thisbigcity)

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If you’re #fancy + #sustainable, you shouldn’t be wearing anything but alpaca.

[chelseamlynnmiller]

Alpacas, surprisingly good for your warmth and the planet’s health.

[kookdoodle]

[chelseamlynnmiller]

I’ve been down for the count for the start of the holidays. This is going to be the diet that will help me make it through this blustery and drizzly weather.

[poetryof-motion]

[chelseamlynnmiller]

Sitting in places that are moving are some of my favorite places to think.

[glorifythehour]

“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave’s a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that’s what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.

Joan Didion (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

[milkstudios]

Chalk it Up

Artist Zaria Forman recreates the Maldives in her Brooklyn living room. See more in our Creative Spaces feature on Milk Made.

Photo by Francois Lebeau

[chelseamlynnmiller]

Beginning to work more and more with textures thanks to Zaria Forman, Michael Rosson, and Joon.

[mysteelecreek]

[chelseamlynnmiller]

First experimenting with watercolors and coffee tonight. I’m glad I have the house to myself to make a mess.

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[thealphagentleman]

∆

[chelseamlynnmiller]

For the days its hard to get out of bed.

[lallamariamhabibi]

یوه ژبه هیڅ کله بس نده — One language is never enough.

Pashto Proverb  (via maza-dohta)

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[shoeboxtony]

Shaolin Monks training, Zhengzhou, China.

[newyorker]

I guess part of this story stems from witnessing how, with some of the increasing vagueness in job definitions, people have come to rely on storytelling or the idea of creating narratives as a catchall. My dentist is a storyteller, weaving a narrative from my bloody gums. My accountant uses numbers to tell a story about my debts and the threat of ruin. Sadly, my barber doesn’t say squat. I’d welcome a story from him.

Sam Lipsyte discusses his story in this week’s issue, and the idea that everyone is a storyteller: http://nyr.kr/1lq9tM9 (via newyorker)

[generaleyewear]

Early 1990s gold and rhodium plated frame with surreal fist details,  from General Eyewear’s 790-995 series.

[chelseamlynnmiller]

I have a fear of getting too attached to my prescription. 

[humanscalecities]

Book review. Make_Shift City. Renegotiating the urban commons

Francesca Ferguson has compiled a great collection of stories, essays and interviews in this new book, Make_Shift City, which represents the latest addition to a growing literature on the new conditions of urban development. This implies a mix of uncertainty, austerity, insecurity and temporality as the landscape for re-imagining the city. These conditions are present, to greater or lesser extent, in Western cities as newcomers after the financial crisis and its subsequent impact on urban development. As institutions try to understand how to face these new conditions, a wide experience of practices and appropriation projects, developed sometimes as outsiders in the previous economic stage, appear as an adequate response to give social value to neglected plots and facilities.

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Cities in the near future will rely more and more on engaging and selling their communities’ opportunities upon the global market place. Investors and entrepreneurs will become more globally fixated and people will gradually gravitate to communities that provide confidence for their various investments.

Ralph Tharp on the future of urban branding. (via thisbigcity)

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