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- Try now, judge later
One thing I need to get past at college is my negativity. And cynicism. And self-consciousness. And sarcasm. And all my other related, deeply ingrained “talents” as I like to think of them. Since I started taking acting classes I’ve known these things can cause problems and the more I do, the more I appreciate how much they can hold me back. Thankfully I’m also occasionally managing to get past them, briefly.
In LISPA on 6 March 2007. 3 comments. Permalink
- Optimism and creativity
All that thinking about my own cynicism and how it affects me at college was happening over a little stream of thought that’s been babbling away for a few months about the position of optimism in creativity. When I went to see the V&A’s Modernism exhibition last year I was struck by how utopian so much of their efforts had been. It wasn’t just square buildings and metal chairs, but an effort to make the world a better place and, I assume, they believed they could. Although it seems more than a little over optimistic in retrospect, given that whole Holocaust/global war thing that happened afterwards, it still felt exciting and I still wanted to believe it could work.
In Misc on 6 March 2007. 2 comments. Permalink
- Links for Tuesday 6 March 2007
- Disambiguity - » Ambient Intimacy
- Excellent stuff on following friends in Twitter, Flickr, etc. I must try and remember some of this for all those times I try and explain my online life to non-geek friends who look at me like I'm some weird stalking nerd. (via Yoz)
- This Guy Can Get 59 MPG in a Plain Old Accord. Beat That, Punk
- People who compete to get the best mileage out of cars by turning engines off, not braking, and more complicated techniques. (via Kottke)
- Image: Architect scales back Smithfield plans - Building
- Some good news about the redevelopment of the west end of Smithfield Market, but hard to tell exactly how good.
- Borough Market - Network Rail and current 'Save the Borough Market' petitions
- If you get a forwarded email about saving Borough Market, email the sender this and tell them to stop scaremongering. No one wants to get rid of the market (just run another railway above it).
- Usable Cross Browser Font Sizing » Middleware Infrastructure
- Magic percentages for getting the same font size on different platforms.
- Evolution and Religion - Darwin's God - Robin Marantz Henig - New York Times
- Why do people hold irrational, superstitious, religious views, and why does it persist over generations? Is there an evolutionary benefit? (via Kottke)