February 2012
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Things to worry about
Things to worry about: Worry about courage Worry about cleanliness Worry about efficiency Worry about horsemanship Things not to worry about: Don’t worry about popular opinion Don’t worry about dolls Don’t worry about the past Don’t worry about the future Don’t worry about growing up Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you Don’t worry about triumph Don’t worry about failure unless it comes...
December 2011
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November 2011
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No.
Via Seth Godin
No.
No, we don’t take clients like that.
No, that’s not part of what we offer.
No, that market is too hard for us to service properly.
No, I won’t bend on this principle.
No, I’m sorry, I won’t be able to have lunch with you.
No, that’s not good enough. Will you please do it again?
No, I’m not willing to lose my focus, and no,...
October 2011
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Stupid and lazy
(Is it that you can’t do it or perhaps you don’t want to do the work?)
When I was in college, I took a ton of advanced math courses, three or four of them, until one day I hit the wall. Too many dimensions, transformations and toroids for me to keep in my head. I was too stupid to do really hard math so I stopped.
Was it that I was too stupid, or did I merely decide that with my...
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September 2011
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Run your own race
The rear view mirror is one of the most effective motivational tools ever created.
There’s no doubt that many people speed up in the face of competition. We ask, “how’d the rest of the class do?” We listen for someone breathing down our necks. And we discover that competition sometimes brings out our best.
There’s a downside, though. Years ago, during my last...
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R.E.M. CALL IT A DAY
“To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.” R.E.M.
In their own words: The guys share their thoughts on why...
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The Consequences of Writing Without Reading
by Buzz Poole, via Imprint
At The New Yorker Book Bench Macy Halford recently posed an important question: “What is wanting to write without wanting to read like? It’s imperative that we figure it out, because Giraldi’s right: it’s both crazy and prevalent among budding writers.” She was echoing a question asked by debut novelist William Giraldi who in the course of teaching writing at Boston...
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August 2011
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She's your lover now
The pawnbroker roared Also, so, so did the landlord The scene was so crazy, wasn’t it? Both were so glad To watch me destroy what I had Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn’t it? Why didn’t you just leave me if you didn’t want to stay? Why’d you have to treat me so bad? Did it have to be that way? Now you stand here expectin’ me to remember somethin’ you forgot to say Yes, and you, I see...
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Ezra Pound, The Art of Poetry No. 5 / Interviewed...
(from http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4598/the-art-of-poetry-no-5-ezra-pound)
Since his return to Italy, Ezra Pound has spent most of his time in the Tirol, staying at Castle Brunnenburg with his wife, his daughter Mary, his son-in-law Prince Boris de Rachewiltz, and his grandchildren. However, the mountains in this resort country near Merano are cold in the winter, and Mr. Pound likes...
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Talkshow CBN na Travessa
10 de Outubro de 2010
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March 2011
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Saudades do futuro - Por Arnaldo Jabor em...
O Estado de S. Paulo, 29/3
Sempre falamos em ‘cultura brasileira’, mas não sabemos exatamente o que é isso, hoje em dia. Cultura é o quê? Uma senhora grega, de camisola, segurando uma tocha? Cultura é uma índia, negra e portuguesa, de cocar e saiote? Cultura é um museu erudito e paralítico que rima com ‘sepultura’? Fazemos boquinha elegante para falar em ‘cultura’, mas sempre sobra um gosto de...
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Caetano Veloso sai em defesa de Maria Bethânia na...
RIO - Não concebo por que o cara que aparece no YouTube ameaçando explodir o Ministério da Cultura com dinamite não é punido. O que há afinal? Será que consideram a corja que se “expressa” na internet uma tribo indígena? Inimputável? E cadê a Abin, a PF, o MP? O MinC não é protegido contra ameaças? Podem dizer que espero punição porque o idiota xinga minha irmã. Pode ser. Mas o que me...
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Entrevista de Ana de Hollanda ao Estado de S....
‘A lei Rouanet viciou o mercado’
João Bosco Rabello e Julio Maria, O Estado de S.Paulo
Em entrevista ao Estado, a ministra da Cultura, Ana de Hollanda, fala do conteúdo de sua conversa com o secretário de Comércio dos Estados Unidos, Gary Locke, durante a passagem de Obama pelo Brasil. “Eles estão preocupados com a flexibilização dos direitos autorais e de como isso pode levar...
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Reject the tyranny of being picked: pick yourself
via Seth’s Blog
Reject the tyranny of being picked: pick yourself
Amanda Hocking is making a million dollars a year publishing her own work to the Kindle. No publisher.
Rebecca Black has reached more than 15,000,000 listeners, like it or not, without a record label.
Are we better off without gatekeepers? Well, it was gatekeepers that brought us the unforgettable lyrics of Terry...
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WatchBruce Lee @ The Pierre Berton show, 1971.
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A família que copiava
via Istoé
Os irmãos do PT mineiro Weliton Prado e Elismar Prado, o primeiro deputado federal e o segundo estadual, haviam conseguido, aparentemente, um feito digno de louvor. Estreantes em suas respectivas Casas Legislativas, ambos foram considerados recordistas em apresentação de projetos de lei no início de ano. Na Câmara Federal, Weliton protocolou 114 propostas. Elismar superou o irmão....
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February 2011
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“By the time I left Vignelli Associates in 1990, I felt I was ready to move far...”
– Michael Bierut in. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mentor, Or, Why Modernist Designers Are Superior
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“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around: that...”
– William Eggleston
January 2011
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Discurso de posse da ministra da Cultura, Ana de...
Segunda-feira, 03 de Janeiro de 2011
Excelentíssimos Srs. ministros e ministras, senadores e deputados, demais autoridades presentes, caríssimos servidores do Ministério da Cultura do Brasil,
Minhas amigas, meus amigos, boa tarde.
Antes de mais nada, quero dizer que é com alegria que me encontro aqui hoje. Uma espécie de alegria que eu talvez possa definir como uma alegria densa. Porque este é,...
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December 2010
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30 steps to mastery
Start
Keep going.
You think you’re starting to get the hang of it.
You see someone else’s work and feel undeniable misery.
Keep going.
Keep going.
You feel like maybe, possibly, you kinda got it now.
You don’t.
Keep going.
You ask for someone else’s opinion—their response is standoffish, though polite.
Depression.
Keep going.
Keep going.
You ask someone...
November 2010
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O construtivismo brasileiro
HÁ POUCOS dias li, não me lembro mais onde, que na verdade De Gaulle (1890-1970) jamais declarou que o Brasil não era um país sério. Por outro lado, parece confirmado que seu compatriota Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) chegou mesmo a dizer que “o Brasil é um país surrealista”. Frequentemente ouço brasileiros afirmarem o mesmo que o antropólogo francês. Talvez tenham razão; mas quiçá seja...
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Zelig, #14 ( 13-11-2010 ) filme-concerto, passos...
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Subterranean Modernism →
Idea magazine is pleasantly print-fixed: none of the words it publishes are put online, so anyone wanting a taste of it simply has to go out and find a copy. The current issue, no. 341, has an article that refers to Hyphen Press and its efforts. This essay, ‘Subterranean modernism’ by Randy Nakamura and Ian Lynam, is perhaps the first published piece by unconnected observers to address ideas that...
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Books that lie open →
This is an introductory survey of a vexed issue of book-production: binding techniques. The intention of the piece is general enlightenment, and to support a process that is threatened with extinction, and to give information about a coming technique.
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Typotheque: New and Improved →
Nowadays ‘New and Improved’ often seems to mean that your deodorant is pink now instead of blue, so we thought it might be good to talk about the development process that led up to the seventh “new and improved” version of our calendar.
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