Good Life Project‘s Living Creed contains all sorts of bits to inspire your week. (Click on the image to embiggen. To keep it up on your screen, click here.) Our favorite principles from the list are at the heart of ‘improvised life’:
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chimero: ‘everyone is just making it up as they go along’
99% recently published highlights of designer Frank Chimero’s “everything he knows about design“. We went to the original and culled our own. As usual, we see them being about LIFE, not just design. If you can’t draw as well as someone, or use the software as well, or if you do not have as much…
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pixar’s 22 rules of storytelling annotated: 13 rules for creatives
Over the past several months, Pixar’s former story artist Emma Coates‘ 22 Rules of Good Storytelling has been flying around the web. Although we find it to be excellent advice for writers, we found annotating it made it even better: a list of fine life principles for any creative soul. Our favorite: No work is ever wasted. If it’s not…
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‘proceed from gratitude’: personal lists and principles
The other day we received this email from artist Siobhan Humston: On the theme of New Year & lists, I thought you may enjoy this list from a former school mate of mine, Mark Alessio. He was killed in Africa a few years ago and on the Facebook memorial page, a friend of his posted…
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how to slow down, via leo widrich and bill murray
(Video link here.) After we posted the anxiety-producing riff on Banksys “No stopping”, we found this great post called Slowing Down by Leo Widrich. It’s worth reading Widrich’s process of slowing down. Here’s an excerpt the essential, powerful technique he learned from Paulo Coelho in his book The Pilgrimage; it’s called The Speed Exercise: It is very simple.…
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‘give happenings time to find themselves’ (anne herbert)
…from the alarmingly wise Anne Herbert of Peace and Love and Noticing the Miracles. Related posts: two mind-shifting quotes to start the day ‘don’t say yes. be yes.’ insoluable problem -> interesting solution a reminder, via anne herbert (open doors!) ann herbert: unaccumulate anne herbert’s wise + teeny meditations
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jump! leap! (philippe halsman)
We love of images of people jumping and leaping and have posted quite a few: they seemed like apt visual metaphors for a life principle, of being willing to take leaps…risk…or just jump for joy. In 1959 , photographer Philippe Halsman published a series of famous people jumping. Our favorite is Eva Marie Saint, leaping…
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the organic commandment of frank lloyd wright
While looking at images of Taliesin West for our string light post, we came across this sign of Frank Lloyd Wright’s “The Organic Commandment”. We’re not sure if it’s one or four, or ‘commandment’ rather than principles, but we find it worth mulling… Related posts: string lights as everyday indoor lighting a dance lesson from…
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the world is change (and change is not apocalypse)
A few hours after we posted REM singing “It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) as an antidote to Saturday’s crazy apocalypse drama, we found a message from our friend Fern Berman on our answering machine: “I think it’s the end of the world as we know it…
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