Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Mary Tyler Moore
Dec. 29, 1936 – Jan. 25, 2017
Notes:
- Gif and quote: Fromthemotionpicture
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Tag: Photography
the simplicity, flexibility and tactility of the page
“Sometimes, I just want to get rid of all the technology and sit down in a quiet space with a pen and paper,” she says. “There are so many apps out there and I feel like no one app gives me everything that I need. I’ve tried and really given them a go, doing those to-do lists of having your priorities or brain storming using lots of different apps … [but] when I get a pen and paper, or when I’m using my old-fashioned diary and pen, it just feels more flexible to me. I can always pull it out. I can focus.”
Angela Ceberano is anything but a technophobe. A digital native with a strong social-media presence, she splits her time between traditional and new media, and between Australia and San Francisco. For certain tasks, she just prefers the simplicity, flexibility and tactility of the page. But instead of spreadsheets and fancy smartphone apps, the Melbourne, Australia-based founder of public relations firm Flourish PR, uses notepads, an old-fashioned diary, coloured pens and a stack of magazines.
~ Alison Birrane, from Why paper is the real ‘killer app’
Photo of Moleskine Notebook by extrasist0le
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
Notes:
- “A bedouin’s camel left on its own to wander. The tire marks behind belongs to bedouins. This picture shows how much the camel depends upon the tiniest vegetation that comes his way in the desert. The trees, the plants. In return a great benefit to the bedouins of the United Arab Emirates to lead their life.” (Sharbeen Sarash via National Geographic)
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
MORE! (esp. Now)
“A huge print in black and white, ‘More Poetry Is Needed’ sits on the wall of a shopping centre in Swansea, United Kingdom. The wall art greets the city centre goers, allowing them to appreciate the idea that ‘Everybody and everywhere could do with more poetry.'”
Source: Book Mania!
Mirror, Mirror, on the…
What doleful thing
man has devised!
Standing before it
means standing before oneself.
One who questions in front of it
at once finds himself questioned.
Moreover,
why is it you have to step backward
in order to move farther inside?
– Kikuo Takano, “Mirror” in Like Underground Water: The Poetry of Mid-Twentieth Century Japan
Notes – Poem via Schonwieder (via 1910). Photo: Laura Zalenga