Design-y looking plant sticks! Staking your plants just got way more stylish!
You Can’t Stop The Waves
“You can’t stop the waves,
but you can learn to surf.”
— John Kabat-Zinn
Good Things Happen Tote Bag
Good Things Happen Tote Bag by Adam J. K.
Soothing Stacks of Paperback Books
Soothing collection of paperback books by Mary Ellen Bartley.
Big & Tall Basket by Doug Johnston
This Big and Tall Basket by Doug Johnston is a beauty.
Friday Link Pack
A huge congrats to my dear friend Debbie Millman for being a 2019 AIGA Gold Medalist for her extraordinary contributions to design. Enjoy this timeless talk from 2011.
– Maggie Doyne’s Blink Now organization now sells goods which are crafted by the Kopila Valley Women’s Cooperative. I love this so much!
– Weekends looks like a wonderful animation.
– Stay home, it’s too peopley outside
– Remember some of these beautiful posters by Herbert Leupin from growing up in Switzerland
– Wait what? This is how you eat a pineapple?
– Thats a pretty incense holder
– I like this laundry canvas truck
– A minmal backpack. I like.
– 20 questions with… Oliver Jeffers
– Focus on your team/company output first and your personal productivity second.
– Legal advice for startups by Johnathan Rees
– The promising young studio Hawraf is shutting down. The four partners decided to go out by publishing comprehensive documents about how they ran their business.
– “The path to become unmistakable is the willingness to be wrong, to be criticized and most of all, to matter. And if you’re willing to do something that matters, you are likely to be in the minority – and it probably means you’re doing something that’s unmistakable.” — Seth Godin
– I Love NYC!
– Thrilled about Tattly’s latest collaboration with the wonderful Loveis Wise.
– “The nicest people always come through the CreativeMornings Job Board.” Yep!
Stop Apologizing
This resonates.
Work by Eiko Ojala
In love with Eiko Ojala’s beautiful cut paper illustrations.
OuiSi: The Photo Connection Game
As someone who is highly visual, I am excited to play this game.
Joy
“What if joy is my only metric for success?”
– Sarah Jones
This is Powerful
This light installation in a Scottish coastal town shows future sea levels. This is powerful. And scary.
The hidden Life of Trees
“When you know that trees experience pain and have memories and that tree parents live together with their children, then you can no longer just chop them down and disrupt their lives with large machines.”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees
Wavelength
Wavelength is a social guessing game where two teams compete to read each other’s minds.
(via Kottke)
Being 97
97-Year-Old Philosopher Ponders the Meaning of Life: “What Is the Point of It All?” (I love his red suspenders so much!)
Plans Matter
Blown away by Plans Matter, a site that lets you find architecturally stunning homes for vacation rentals, as well hotels.
The Book of Bookmarks
Twenty bookmarks, unusually assembled into a small pull-out ‘book’ that simultaneously offers, across its surfaces, an essay on the business of reading: why we do it, what the best books do for us, and how literature might change our lives. Love this so much! What a great gift for a reader!
Courageous Women Throw
This Courageous Woman Blanket won my heart. Wishlisted!
Friday Link Pack
Skip to 1:16 for the song to start.
– The Wally Shop is a package-free grocery store. Everything is being delivered in reusable packaging, picked back up again for reuse.
– Man explains valuable life lesson using two lighters.
– Ikea’s new curtains purify the air inside your house
– Traveling House Sitters. I love this. This couple housesits full-time. HEROES!
– I want to put this CONFIDENTIAL envelope on my desk and pretend really important stuff is inside.
– Let’s Do the Proust Questionnaire
– A creative person’s guide to thoughtful promotion
– “The minute you choose what you really want to do, it’s a different kind of life.”
– Stunningly minimal, handmade quilts!
– A national park ranger set up a typewriter in Grand Canyon National Park to “see what would happen as visitors came upon it.”
– “There is never a good time in conversation to bring up the fact that you don’t have feet.” How I lost my legs and gained
– This made me laugh: Crowd Goes Nuts for Extremely Satisfying DVD Logo Bounce
– The Modern Creator’s Paradigm — A Reason for More Critique and Accountability (via)
– Why airlines are cracking down on “skiplagging” — the hack that savvy travellers use to fly for less.
– How would you respond if you asked someone for their card, and they handed you this?
– The one comment I keep getting in regards to the CreativeMornings job board: The nicest people always come through our platform. YAY!
– Did you know Tattly has a subscription? The gift that keeps on giving.
– A big thank you to Lingo for sponsoring my blog and RSS Feed this week.
Work That Has No End
This quote, mentioned during Scott Harrison’s talk today at CreativeMornings/NYC, really made me think.
Parrot Talking to Alexa
This makes me want to train my cat to talk to Alexa.
Movie Color Palettes
The Colors of Motion makes single image timelines of the use of colors in movies. And you can get your favorite movie as a color poster.
(via Kottke)
Think, Feel, Imagine
What you think,
you become.
what you feel,
you attract.
What you imagine,
you create.
— Buddha
Ram Dass in Fierce Grace
I watched Ram Dass’ movie Fierce Grace yesterday. It touched me deeply. If you don’t know about Ram Dass, look him up, look up his books. A beautiful soul.