February 2012
5 posts
The Hill Approach →
Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
The craft of your career comes in picking the right hills. hills just challenging enough that you can barely make it over. A series of hills becomes a mountain, and a...
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January 2012
8 posts
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A follow up video: Nou Bouke (We Are Tired) 2 years later via Miami Herald.
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We watched the following video in class last week from the Miami Herald regarding Haiti: “Two years after a devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, seeds of progress are starting to take root. But the troubled country still has a long way to go.”
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an interview excerpt →
for instance,’ [meryl streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are taught about benedict arnold, the first traitor in america, but i’ve never heard—until i went onto the [national women’s history museum] web site—about deborah sampson, the first woman to take a bullet for her nation. she was 21 years old in the revolutionary war. she enlisted on the american side under a man’s name,...
December 2011
14 posts
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Diving for McQueen. Cathy Horyn’s studio visit to the McQueen atelier in Paris.
drawn...
back to Portland
or to…
Durham or Raleigh
France
DRC
Brooklyn
Seattle
San Francisco
many roads. conflicted.
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Every person I interact with is part of the person I am becoming.
– Patricia Moreno
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I’m beginning to notice some improvement.
– Cellist Pablo Casals on being asked why he still practiced 3 hours a day at 93 years old.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
November 2011
22 posts
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
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Mumford and Sons perform Cousins (Vampire Weekend cover) for Radio 1 Live Lounge 2010.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is...
– John Cage
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →