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Never compare your inside with someone else’s outside.
‘During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War – called ‘Spomeniks’ – were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA. In the 1980s the Spomeniks still attracted millions of visitors from the Eastern bloc; today they are largely neglected and unknown, their symbolism lost and unwanted. Antwerp-based photographer Jan Kempenaers travelled the Balkans photographing these eerie objects, presented in this book as a powerful typological series. The beauty and mystery of the isolated, crumbling Spomeniks informs Kempenaer’s enquiry into memory, found beauty, and whether former monuments can function as pure sculpture.’
I think these are crazy beautiful.
Humanities students should be more like computer-science students.
A computer program that doesn’t run is a failure. A program that produces no usable data about the text it was set up to analyze is a failure. Why don’t those failures devastate the developers? Because each time their efforts fail, the developers learn something they can use to get closer to success the next time.
That’s what we should be teaching humanities students—to look at what went wrong and figure out how to learn from it.
photo via flickr:CC | hans.gerwitz
7 steps to raise a geek child
Lots of great advice in here, but #4 is my fave:
4) Let them see you reading for pleasure.All good digital games and entertainment media at their very core begin as text, as story. So let your child see you reading, paper or digital, for fun. Leave physical books lying around where they can be picked up and explored (it’s also a tacit reminder that not all the world’s knowledge or worthwhile content is digitized). Get a library card and use it. Your kids may not become writers, but they will likely have a better vocabulary and develop an appreciation that words are the heart of many works ultimately expressed in forms visual and verbal. If they can manipulate language that spurs the imagination, they can create anything.
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Скульптор или художник делает ошибку, когда он слишком часто говорит или пишет о своей работе. Это ослабляет необходимое ему напряжение.
- Kirdik: http://www.putin2012.ru/static/img/textheader.png
- Payalnik: http://xkcd.com/349/
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(Reblogged from creative-education)
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Если бы высшую математику изобрели сегодня, ни одна из наших корпораций не смогла бы ею овладеть. Мы бы посылали каждого на трехдневные курсы. Затем каждый получал бы три месяца на то, чтобы посмотреть, работают ли «все эти штуки». А когда выяснялось бы, что они не работают, мы бы начинали пробовать что-нибудь другое.
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(Reblogged from creative-education)
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire (via eloquentandhonest)
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(Reblogged from creative-education)
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ And there comes a time when a true follower of Jesus Christ must take a stand that’s neither safe nor politic nor popular but he must take a stand because it is right.
Martin Luther King (via azspot)
