“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
(via)
Gardeners of our Souls
The Power of Positive People
“Your group of friends are better than any drug or anti-aging supplement, and will do more for you than just about anything.”
The Power of Positive People, by Tara Parker-Pope
Friday Link Pack
(via The Curious Brain)
– Today is Tattly’s 7th Birthday. I love this little, quirky, creative company of mine. So much gratitude to everyone on my team (past and current) for helping shape and build this labor of love.
– keyword void, or search void, n.: a situation where searching for answers about a keyword returns an absence of authoritative, reliable results, in favor of “content produced by a niche group with a particular agenda.”
– A Microburst Drops Heavy Rain Over Austria’s Lake Millstatt – Time Lapse
– Stunning! Winners of the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest
– I enjoy the new financial column on Cup of Jo.
– An Open Letter From A Corgi To The People Who Laugh At His Butt
– To Get Your Kid Moving, Walk Out the Door
– I always have a hard time finding a good movie on Netflix. I am really talented at digging out all of the mediocre ones. This list of 100 movies to stream on Netflix will hopefully help.
– The difference between success and failure can be as simple as keeping in touch. Keep in touch. (via)
– I feel this GIF.
– “Magical” Waterfall Glowing at Night Captured With a Simple Lighting Trick
– Uh oh. Open offices make you less open (via)
– Five Women Fashion Photographers Who Changed The Industry
– This three piece sloth ring made me giggle.
– These black and white baskets are beautiful.
– A big thank you to Ode to Things for sponsoring my blog this week.
Cool jobs to apply for:
– Mucca Design is looking for a Project Manager in Brooklyn or remote.
– Pop-Up Magazine is hiring a Creative Director, Assistant Editor for Social Media, and an Art Director in San Francisco.
– Commoner is looking for a part-time Account Manager in Melbourne.
– Food 52 is looking to hire a Project Manager.
Did you know CreativeMornings now has a job board and a creative company directory?
An Honest Look at The Personal Finance Crisis
Millions of baby boomers are moving into their senior years with empty pockets and declining choices to earn a living. And right behind them is a younger generation facing the same challenges. In this deeply personal talk, author Elizabeth White opens up an honest conversation about financial trouble and offers practical advice for how to live a richly textured life on a limited income.
♥ / Ode to Things
A big thank you to Ode to Things for sponsoring my blog and RSS Feed this week.
Ode to Things is a tribute to and celebration of quality lifestyle objects. The creators of this New-England based shop believe that the more everyday an item is, the higher quality it needs to be. With this as their mantra, they evaluate dozens of products each week, and only acquire one or two per month — those that adhere to a stringent set of criteria they call “the ode-worthiness checklist”. The result is a unique, consistent, and finely-curated collection.
It is an absolute visual pleasure to visit Ode to Things. See for yourself.
Thought Hopper 3000
Thought Hopper 3000 – an online destination for a 5 minute vacation by Vera van Wolferen. Beautiful. And mad respect for the x-acto knife skills.
(via Chris)
Balloons
This box of balloons made me look.
Karl Hermann Haupt
Karl Hermann Haupt, Untitled, 1925. Watercolor.
On Recycling Plastic
“Recycling plastic is to saving the Earth what hammering a nail is to halting a falling skyscraper. You struggle to find a place to do it and feel pleased when you succeed. But your effort is wholly inadequate and distracts from the real problem of why the building is collapsing in the first place. The real problem is that single-use plastic—the very idea of producing plastic items like grocery bags, which we use for an average of 12 minutes but can persist in the environment for half a millennium—is an incredibly reckless abuse of technology.”
More Recycling Won’t Solve Plastic Pollution
(via Paul)
Highlight the Remarkable
This Stabilo Boss campaign highlighting the remarkable, as in history’s forgotten women, is fantastic.
Stay cool!
I am feeling this GIF by Thoka Maer these days. Stay cool everyone!
Below The Surface
Below The Surface is an archaeological project of the North/South metro line in Amsterdam. At Damrak and Rokin in the city centre, archaeologists had a chance to physically access the riverbed, thanks to the excavations for the massive infrastructure project of the North/South metro line between 2003 and 2012. Rivers in cities are unlikely archaeological sites. It is not often that a riverbed, let alone one in the middle of a city, is pumped dry and can be systematically examined. The excavations in the Amstel yielded a deluge of finds, some 700,000 in all: a vast array of objects, some broken, some whole, all jumbled together.
So. Many. Stories! See all the objects.
(Thank you Wesley)
Friday Link Pack
– The Everyone Welcome Initiative
– “About sixty thousand different thoughts are said to go through a person’s mind over the course of a day. …”
– “A good cheese knife is very important.” I like this couple.
– “Keep showing up despite the chaos.”
– Love these alphabet rubber stamps.
– Great read: Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the world wide web, has some regrets (Thank you Manu)
– Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life
– In case you missed this: 10 Hours of Relaxing Oceanscapes, from BBC Earth
– Mexican social anthropologist and photographer Anuar Patjane Floriuk shares his unique perspective of the seas with his stunning series Underwater Realm.
– French Bookstore Invites its Instagram Followers to Judge Books by Their Covers
– This thread! What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
– Beat Generosity Burnout. (via Jocelyn)
– Sal’s Shoes is an organization making sure that your used, loved (and barely worn) outgrown children’s shoes are delivered straight from you to those in need.
– Totally intrigued by Street Wisdom.
– This Norwegian Public Toilet is something else!
– I am downloading and installing this pronto: A Tool to Make OS X Great Again
– A few weeks ago I gave a talk at 99u in which I share some of my favorite interview questions when hiring and talk about the kind, big hearted, fun work culture I am after.
– A big thank you to Onsen for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed. I use and LOVE them!
♥ / Onsen
A big thank you to Onsen for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed.
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How To Grow Old
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.”
Mermaid
My current favorite Tattly: Mermaid by Jessi Preston.
Solid Wool
Last week, at the Do Lectures I got to touch a material that I thought for sure was fibreglass, but no, it was wool, Solid Wool to be concise. I had to ask about three times if I heard correctly. Wool? As in W-O-O-L?
Solid Wool is a beautiful, strong and unique composite material. Think fibreglass, but with wool. Mind blown! So much mad respect to the founders!
Fireworks
These firework images made me look.
How the Web Was Lost
“As public outrage grows over the centralization of the Web, and as enlarging numbers of coders join the effort to decentralize it, he has visions of the rest of us rising up and joining him. This spring, he issued a call to arms, of sorts, to the digital public. In an open letter published on his foundation’s Web site, he wrote: “While the problems facing the web are complex and large, I think we should see them as bugs: problems with existing code and software systems that have been created by people—and can be fixed by people.”
When asked what ordinary people can do, Berners-Lee replied, “You don’t have to have any coding skills. You just have to have a heart to decide enough is enough. Get out your Magic Marker and your signboard and your broomstick. And go out on the streets.” In other words, it’s time to rise against the machines.”
“I was devastated”: Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the world wide web, has some regrets
(Thank you Manu)
How The Web Was Lost
Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.
Givers
“Givers Get Lucky.”
– Do Lectures
