how would you like to be known as a consumer?

[joshtehsmerd]

Listener - Wooden Heart

[joshtehsmerd]

is currently not skiing.

life is so indoors.

much wow.

[unculturedmag]

Aaron Draplin Shows How to Conceptualize and Create a Logo in 15 Minutes

While many assume good design is a result of hard contemplation and systematic renderings, Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Co., and most notably the founder of Field Notes, approaches things a bit differently. A fanatic of vintage logos and simplicity, the Portland, Oregon-based entrepreneur takes on a challenge from online educational company lynda.com, in which he must create a logo for a fictional construction company. In the video above, see how Draplin goes from rummaging through bookshelves and bins full of garage sale items for inspiration, to taking his sketches to the computer and working them out into a slew of logos. If his work process doesn’t inspire you, Draplin’s feel-good approach to not only design and collaboration, but to life in general will surely leave you wishing more designer’s carried themselves in the same manner.

[joshtehsmerd]

Everything about his approach to minimalism is so on point. It's inspirationally cultured, it's generously honest, and it's deviously compatible. Really recommend watching this if you're even minutely interested in logo design.

[metalhearted]

This Guy Narrates People’s Lives Randomly In Public And It’s Hilarious [source]

[ruyuo]

The people that go along with it tho

[teesadutta]

A 2014 study shows that despite the wealth of talented actresses in Hollywood, women still remain grossly underrepresented when it comes to major film roles. Here to give us her take, a one-dimensional female character from a male driven comedy.

[coolfeminist]

[joshtehsmerd]

This is really fucking powerful.

Would be better if it looked more like a policeman than a soldier tho.

That’s one of the points this cartoon is trying to make. Police in the US are equipped like soldiers.

Exactly.

[poochin]

[joshtehsmerd]

during finals week

friend: hey

me: the most important united states supreme court case was marbury v. madison because it established judicial review

[joshtehsmerd]

All the great teachers I've ever met and worked with are people who can inspire interest and passion and curiosity and light up people's imaginations with the interests they themselves have for a particular discipline or field of work. I mean, if you think that teaching is always and only a process of giving people direct instructions and giving them information they have to memorize - but teaching is much more than that. It's about enabling. It's about facilitating. It's about mentoring. It's about creating curiosity. It's true in the work of every creative person I've ever met that what drives them is a passionate appetite for the work. But what facilitates it is an increasing control over materials and ideas. So there's a pedagogy, and you can do it. And my argument is it's essential that we do do it. I believe our only hope for the future is to rethink the fundament principles on which we are educating our children. And the only way we'll do it is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are and seeing our children for the hope that they are. And our task is to educate their whole being so they can face this future. By the way, we may not see this future, but they will. And our job is to help them make something of it. Thank you very much.

More from Sir Ken Robinson

[joshtehsmerd]

RAZ: How did you know how to do that? Like, how did you know how to go back to where you came from in order to, like, reclaim your creativity?

STING: Well, I think songwriting can be considered a kind of therapy and maybe a kind of regression therapy, you know, to go back to the beginning. Why are you like you are? Why do you think the way you do? Why do you behave the way you do? And most of the answers are in your childhood. So I spent a lot of time thinking about my childhood. It wasn't a particularly happy childhood. It was a little confusing my childhood. And so I forced myself to go back there and in going back there I wondered whether I shouldn't try and honor the people I was brought up with.

RAZ: It was almost like you had to get out of your own way. Like, you realized that it didn't have to be about you, that it's not about you.

STING: It's not, and the creative process often takes place outside of your ego. You channel something but you can't take credit for a lot of it. You just tap into it. You tap into that thing and it's a wonderful honor to be that channel.

RAZ: I mean, how did you get out of your own way?

STING: Just by saying get out of your own way (laughter). You're in the way. Sting is in the way. I'm sick of Sting so let's sing about somebody else's thing, you know. And I realized very quickly I was writing in dialect, a dialect that I was brought up in but that I haven't used and I don't use. In fact, I only use it unconsciously when I get angry. But I was writing in dialect and the rhythms and the cadences of that dialect were helping me create the story. It wrote itself.

[joshtehsmerd]

Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability. And there's a reason. The whole system was invented - around the world, there were no public systems of education, really, before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. So their hierarchy is rooted on two ideas. Number one - that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. So you were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don't do music. You're not going to be a musician. Don't do art. You're not going to be an artist - benign advice, now profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in revolution, and the second is academic ability which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence because the universities designed the system in their image. If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance. And the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not because the thing they were good at in school wasn't valued or was actually stigmatized. And I think we can't afford to go on that way. In the next 30 years, according to UNESCO, more people worldwide will be graduating through education than since the beginning of history. Suddenly, degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job, it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly so...

Sir Ken Robinson

[joshtehsmerd]

My name is Jackie White, and I'm foreman of the yard, and you don't mess with Jackie on this quayside. I'm as hard as iron plate, woe betide you if you're late when we have to push a boat out on the spring tide. Now, you can die and hope for heaven but you need to work your shift. And I'd expect you all to back us to the hilt, for if St. Peter at his gate were to ask you why you're late, why, you tell him that you had to get a ship built. We build battleships and cruisers for Her Majesty the Queen, super tankers for Onassis and all the classes in between. We built the greatest ship in tonnage (singing) what the world has ever seen. And the only life worth knowing is in the shipyard. Steel the stockyard, iron in the soul, would conjure up a ship with there used to be a hull. And we don't know what we'll do if this yard sold for the only life worth knowing is in the shipyard.

Sting, in a TED talk where he explores the rediscovery of his creativity

[joshtehsmerd]

hi tumblr

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[joshtehsmerd]

// rustic brick walls // muted reverberance // jazz bands among beach brushes // hallways protected under a pattered umbrella

[tillthemusicends-deactivated201]

Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via tillthemusicends)

[girlwithpsychothoughts-deactiva]

[joshtehsmerd]

god doesn't exactly fit in the DSM:V

[anamorphosis-and-isolate]

"We get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds."