SFR

Swiss Family Robinson. Swiss design at its best.

On my to-do list: Build a Treehouse

WOW

I very much enjoy these photo projects. The hill (top left corner), day at the Yale Peabody, and JFK-SFO projects are especially amazing. His series on his friends reminds me of someone...

http://www.pauloctavious.com/

E.B. White Quotes

The first one I saw in a book this weekend, and it has been on my mind. The rest I thought were thought-provoking.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

LISTOMANIA!

BRILLIANT article about list-making. Thank you, dear jfmg.

Buying Art

Check out these great pieces and great prices!

On Plagiarism

"There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity."

-Helene Hegemann in a NYT article on Berlin and plagiarism

Interesting to compare that to the last post, no?

Vanity Fair

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher;

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

What profit has a man from all his labor

In which he toils under the sun?

One generation passes away, and another generation comes;

But the earth abides forever.

...

All things are full of labor;

Man cannot express it.

The eye is not satisfied with seeing,

Nor the ear filled with hearing.

That which has been is what will be,

That which is done is what will be done,

And there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which is may be said,

"See, this is new"?

It has already been in ancient times before us.

There is not remembrance of former things,

Nor will there be any remembrance

of things that are to come

By those who will come after.

-Portions of Ecclesiastes 1