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"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political..."

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:37:39 -0600

““Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.””

- Audre Lorde (via lazyhawk)

"It comes down to this: only people can have ethics. Ethics, as in, doing the right thing for the..."

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:14:01 -0600

“It comes down to this: only people can have ethics. Ethics, as in, doing the right thing for the community even though it might not benefit you or your company financially. Pointing to the numbers (or to the boss) is an easy refuge for someone who would like to duck the issue, but the fork in the road is really clear. You either do work you are proud of, or you work to make the maximum amount of money. (It would be nice if those overlapped every time, but they rarely do).”

- — Seth Godin

Also, is this too long for a tattoo? Because it comes as close to a personal credo as I’ve found so far.

(via communicatrix)

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Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:40:59 -0600

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Snow (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:14:06 -0600

Snow (Taken with instagram)

Blog Moved

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:16:00 -0700

Arteliance can now be found at aprilmains.ca.

The new RSS feed is at aprilmains.ca/feed/

simplifyyourlife: Another classic line from Fight Club!

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:09:31 -0700

simplifyyourlife:

Another classic line from Fight Club!

How artists must dress

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:02:18 -0700

How artists must dress:

bobulate:

Roger White celebrates a third printing of an etiquette book with some key pointers:

The relationship between an artist’s work and attire should not take the form of a direct visual analogy. A stripe painter may not wear stripes. …. The artist’s sartorial choices are subject to the same hermeneutic operations as are his work. When dressing, an artist should imagine a five-paragraph review of his clothes—the attitudes and intentions they reveal, their topicality, their relationship to history, the extent to which they challenge or endorse, subvert or affirm dominant forms of fashion—written by a critic he detests.

And:

Communicating an attitude of complete indifference to one’s personal appearance is only achievable through a process of self-reflexive critique bordering on the obsessive. Artists who are in reality oblivious to how they dress never achieve this effect.

Once that is under control, the artist can move on to proper introductions and “netiquette.”

[via]

minimalmac: Happy 27th Birthday, Mac.

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:56:21 -0700

minimalmac:

Happy 27th Birthday, Mac.

Photo

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:26:42 -0700

"Beautiful people do not just happen."

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:52:37 -0700

“Beautiful people do not just happen.”

- simplify your life

"Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be so persistent. It..."

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:11:51 -0700

“Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be so persistent. It wouldn’t be in every culture. We wouldn’t know about it…”

- Milton Glaser: first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts. Glaser continues:

How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, “that looks just like Cézanne.” And you realize Cézanne has made you see the reality of the forest in a way that you never could have seen before. He’s made you attentive. Every work of art that you care about makes us attentive. And if it doesn’t do that it ain’t art.

From brokeasdope, via robertogreco

(via viafrank)

How To Use Mind-Mapping Software To Organize Your New Year Resolutions

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:43:18 -0700

How To Use Mind-Mapping Software To Organize Your New Year Resolutions

The Most Important Ability You Can Have Today | Brass Tack Thinking

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:43:00 -0700

The Most Important Ability You Can Have Today | Brass Tack Thinking:

Adaptability.

Thinking of doing a design PhD? Trust me, I'm a doctor. - Core77

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:27:00 -0700

Thinking of doing a design PhD? Trust me, I'm a doctor. - Core77:

De-coupling the reason for doing a PhD from its increasing necessity in academia was useful for me. This meant doing the PhD for its own sake, not for the qualification. I am a great starter of projects, but often lose interest once I have worked it all out in my head and understand the patterns and connections. But understanding those things in your own head is different from explaining them carefully to others. Quite apart from the intellectual stimulation and rigour that writing my PhD entailed, completing it was a valuable life experience.

"Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little."

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:35:02 -0700

“Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little.”

- Cheng Yen (via Dan Benjamin)

On Dirt

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:06:56 -0700

On Dirt:

Moral of the story? You price yourself like dirt, you’ll be treated like it.

via @mlanger

The Big Web Show #30: Jason Santa Maria on 5by5

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:07:16 -0700

The Big Web Show #30: Jason Santa Maria on 5by5:

Form a language to explain the way you work and the decisions that you make.

I struggle with this and am including it here to remind myself to work on it.

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web & Mobile Application Design (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:20:55 -0700

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web & Mobile Application Design (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter):

Between standards and innovation is elevation.

Just finished reading the first edition of this book and now I’m full of lots of ideas for simplifying and directing things.

Laura's "Rules" - pistachio's posterous

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:32:54 -0700

Laura's "Rules" - pistachio's posterous:

I think the absolute central challenge in life is to learn to not be afraid of who you actually are.

be kind and fair to everyone.

don’t worry whether or not anyone likes you.

help people.

ask.

act. (get excited and share it)

love yourself.

love others. (try radical forgiveness)

gratitude for everything.

hope is your only hope. (and fear is your only worry)

be present.

BONUS: adversity is an opportunity: ask yourself, when something goes wrong, “what bullet did i just dodge?”

via @missrogue

Giving Better Design Feedback

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:35:18 -0700

Giving Better Design Feedback:

It’s Not Art

First rule of design feedback: what you’re looking at is not art. It’s not even close. It’s a business tool in the making and should be looked at objectively like any other business tool you work with. The right question is not, “Do I like it?” but “Does this meet our goals?” If it’s blue, don’t ask yourself whether you like blue. Ask yourself if blue is going to help you sell sprockets. Better yet: ask your design team. You just wrote your first feedback question.