January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
7 posts
The Secret Lives of Bakers | Toronto Standard →
fuckyeahtoronto:
“It’s 3:00 am on a drizzling Friday morning. St. Clair West is quiet and uninviting, but about a block west of Christie lies a little bakery where they keep the door propped slightly open every night. You can smell the sweetness emanating as you pass by on the sidewalk. And on this particular night, they’re expecting me.”
November 2011
29 posts
Culture Got You Down? →
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend,” E.M. Forster once wrote, “I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” This quote teaches us a lot, particularly that dead British novelists made for good drinking buddies and horrible spies. But Forster’s sentiment is worth considering…
A High-Tech Lynching - The Atlantic →
Now she’s all screaming “Sexual Harassment!” And dude in HR is all like, “This is a serious issue, Mr. Coates.” And and I’m all like, “Bros Before Hos!” And they’re all like, “Hostile…
Watchdesignlives:
Joel Berman is constantly seeking and finding new ways to express emotion, story and drama with his medium of choice, cast glass. Joel is also dedicated to finding ways to reflect diversity and intercultural understanding in his studio, which he discusses in this September 2011 interview. www.jbermanglass.com
UNTITLEDmagazine: 20 Ways to Protect and Nurture... →
thoughtyoushouldseethis:
Move beyond needing to be understood. Focus on being valued.
Do not react to every situation. By allowing the dynamics to play out there is deeper learning. Designers self regulate through experience.
There is a thin line between being understood and being irrelevant…
October 2011
26 posts
“My mom told me something that I struggled with my whole life: ‘You’re born alone...”
– Jeff Tweedy
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Generation X is sick of your bullshit.
“Smoking is as natural as breathing. They’ve been doing it since before I...”
– Todd Stanford Trainer, 1994
