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All articles filed in Amy Friend

mindset quotes

Bill Murray’s Tweet Can Take You Far

Although I can’t verify that this wonderful tweet came from the REAL Bill Murray’s twitter feed, I don’t care. I’ve been mulling the idea for days, surprised where it took me…

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ideas from artists mindset poems

A New Year: We Gather to See…(Friend, Nye, Albers)

On this second day of the New Year, we feel like the people in We Gather to See, Amy Friend’s wonderful photograph. To gather to see is our mission for the New Year…because, as Naomi Shahab Nye’s poem Moment* reminds…

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blogs + sites mindset poems video

We Leap into The New Year (With Yoko Ono, Mary Oliver, Muybridge, More)

As always we are taking the week between Christmas and New Year’s off. It’s a time to slow way down and reflect on the year that’s passed so quickly, and on the new one we are about to begin. Here’s a few of the things we look at, and think about.

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blogs + sites creative process mindset productivity/work work / livelihood

A Few Tools for Getting Unstuck + Amy Friend

Getting STUCK, whether in a relationship, decision-making process, or career path, is very much part of being human. In our productivity-obsessed society, it is an especially big concern. Here are some approaches we’ve found that work.

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ideas from artists identity inspiring people mindset

amy friend’s photographs: cosmic connect-the-dots

We’ve recently discovered a new series of photographs by Amy Friend called Dare alla Luce: Through small deliberate interventions, I altered these vintage images, allowing light to pass through them. (After all, photographs are made possible with light.) In a literal and somewhat playful manner, I aimed to give the photographs back to the light, hence…

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