Noticer.
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Sobering
Examine the lives of people who have truly excelled in any of the arts – music, theatre, dance, sculpture – and they all have one characteristic in common: the capacity to commit themselves wholeheartedly to their chosen disciplines. They do it every day. No excuses.
from On Being a Photographer, quoted here
I think about this a lot, especially in regard to improv and theater. It’s good to see this articulated so clearly. But sobering.
Time is the secret ingredient.
Global warming takes a brief pause; overall trend clear (see graph).
manifesting
I read on a friend’s blog today that we manifest what we focus on. I think that’s probably true. So how do you change your focus if you want to manifest something different in your life? Meditation, maybe? Writing?
An Easy Way to Increase Creativity
From Scientific American:
Creativity is commonly thought of as a personality trait that resides within the individual. We count on creative people to produce the songs, movies, and…
Big desert blues: Touareg nomads with electric guitars
This is a music video for Tinariwen, members of the Touareg tribe of nomads of the southern Sahara desert. Their name in their native Tamashek language, written as ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ, means…
The Arms Trade, Illustrated
In the course of learning about contemporary cattle raiding in Sudan, we found ourselves sifting through a recent edition of the annual Small Arms Survey. It’s an informative…
A war of algorithms
The New Atlantis magazine has a fantastic article on the increasing use of robots and artificial intelligence systems in warfare and how they bring the fog of war to the murky area of…
TalkingPointsTwitter
Talking Points Memo has put together an excellent resource for keeping up with happenings in Washington.
Whatever else Twitter might be, we’ve found it a good way to keep tabs on politicos and…
