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The GOOD 30-Day Challenge: Art Every Day
Art is essential. If you haven’t reached that conclusion on your own, consider some evidence: Science shows that exposure to art is correlated with enhanced abilities in math, cognition, and vocabulary.
We’re using March’s GOOD 30-Day Challenge to dare ourselves to make time for art in our lives. We’ve listed 31 ideas for incorporating art into your month into a convenient check list. If you’d like, you can try to do all 31 tasks in a week, or take your time and space them out. Either way, every time you’ve completed a task, come back to the page and check off the one you’ve done. At the end of the month, we’ll tally up all the actions to quantify how much more artistic everyone got in March.
See the list on GOOD.is→

Bring on the 30 day culturefest on crack!

The GOOD 30-Day Challenge: Art Every Day

Art is essential. If you haven’t reached that conclusion on your own, consider some evidence: Science shows that exposure to art is correlated with enhanced abilities in math, cognition, and vocabulary.

We’re using March’s GOOD 30-Day Challenge to dare ourselves to make time for art in our lives. We’ve listed 31 ideas for incorporating art into your month into a convenient check list. If you’d like, you can try to do all 31 tasks in a week, or take your time and space them out. Either way, every time you’ve completed a task, come back to the page and check off the one you’ve done. At the end of the month, we’ll tally up all the actions to quantify how much more artistic everyone got in March.

See the list on GOOD.is→

Bring on the 30 day culturefest on crack!

Posted March 2, 2012 at 11:19pm | 98 notes

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Can someone please buy me this quoting Shakespeare poster?

Posted January 25, 2012 at 11:02pm in shakespeare globe london shakespeare quotes | 7 notes

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The Pharcyde - Passin’ Me By.

So, so good.

Posted January 19, 2012 at 3:33pm in pharcyde passin' me by youtube | 2 notes

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(Source: mrharristweed)

Posted January 19, 2012 at 3:31pm | 87 notes

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There’s a wise saying that goes like this: A real gentleman never discusses women he’s broken up with or how much tax he’s paid. Actually, this is a total lie. I just made it up. Sorry!

But if there really was such a saying, I think that one more condition for being a gentleman would be keeping quiet about what you do to stay healthy. A gentleman shouldn’t go on and about what he does to stay fit. At least that’s how I see it.

As everybody knows, I’m no gentleman, so maybe I shouldn’t be worrying about this to begin with …

— Haruki Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running)

Posted January 19, 2012 at 1:44pm in gentleman haruki murakami staying fit tax What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | 106 notes

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Seven rules for 2012.

1. Temperance - Do not eat until you become dull, do not drink until you become elevated.

2. Silence - Speak only what will benefit others or yourself, avoid useless conversation.

3. Order - Let all your things have their places, let each part of your business have its time.

4. Resolution - Make up your mind to do what you ought to do, without fail what you have decided to do.

5. Frugality - Spend money only to do good for yourself, waste nothing.

6. Industry - Lose no time, always do something useful, discontinue all unnecessary actions.

7. Sincerity - Do not play tricks on people, think and speak justly and frankly.

(N.B. This list was copied from a page which was snapped by my friend. Does anyone know who I can attribute this to, or what book it is? I have a feeling this is a translation from a Chinese text…. Thanks!)

Posted January 15, 2012 at 2:06pm in wisdom temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity | 206 notes

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Wes Anderson

writersroutines:

Writing on my own is not fun for me. With Life Aquatic, Noah (Baumbach) and I would meet every day at a restaurant before lunch and we’d stay six or seven hours till dinner. We’d make each other laugh. That’s how we got it done….I am surprised because I always think of myself as someone who tries to do a lot of stuff and who is lazy. So I am happy to learn I can actually get things done.

(Source: Guardian)

Posted January 15, 2012 at 12:23pm | 177 notes

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The Complete Guide to Not Giving a Fuck

Mission for 2012 - Thou shalt not waste time giving a fuck for shit that doesn’t matter. (let’s see how long I can last)

Posted January 13, 2012 at 9:06am in julien smith not giving a fuck fuck this shit resolutions | 2 notes

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Douchebagette of the evening.

Me making conversation with a random at a friend’s farewell: “Where did you guys meet?”

Investment banker girl: “We met at a high school prefect afternoon tea party.”

Honey, high school was 10 years ago, no one gives a fuck. What kind of person would specify that it was a prefect party? (Why the fuck?)

Then as the small talk got more awkward, we moved on to talking about Facebook, and she just had to let slip the fact that she got to use FB heaps early because her college was like the second school to get it (I didn’t take the bait to ask which) but she was all like blah blah blah oh it’s a great too for Yale alumni to connect blah blah blah di blah.

Big deal. You went to an Ivy league school.

We proceeded to talk about her time working in NYC, how great the city is, etc, and when I asked why she moved back to Sydney, she said “Oh I got engaged and had to come back for my relationship”, before shoving her big sparkly rock in my face.

Just fuck off already.

Am I jealous? No.

I am single and currently unemployed and will never earn her six figure salary.

I don’t mind overachievers - these people work hard for their successes. But her obnoxious show-offness was just too much. Get over yourself woman.

Posted January 10, 2012 at 1:01am in douchebagette high school is so over

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Meet Milo Floppy Ears. Isn’t he gorgeous?

Posted January 8, 2012 at 11:46pm in dog videos Milo Floppy Ears pets beagle bloodhound | 15 notes