Category archives: editorial
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“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.”
-John Cage
Lead with your heart
Think back to the last song you heard that filled your heart with joy. Did you get up and dance? Did you roll down the windows and sing along at the top of your lungs? Or did you sit down and write a paper about it?
Mindfulness in creative work
Creativity seems to come in cycles for me. I have days where I come home with rolls of film filled to the very end with interesting photographs. Conversely, I also have days or weeks when I can’t take even a single memorable photograph.
The place you are from
“You and the place you are from are not a chance encounter; it is something beyond destiny, it is something so meant to be that it is beyond words.”
Jamaica Kinkaid
Cézanne and the apple
recently picked up the book Proust Was a Neuroscientist, written by Jonah Lehrer, and I am enjoying it quite a bit. On a basic level, the book is about the intersection of art and science, which happen to be two of my favorite subjects. Specifically, Lehrer makes the case that artists over the years have predicted certain things about the nature of human perception that have later proven to be startlingly accurate. continue reading