July 2010
6 posts
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”From the moment the creative photographer picks up his camera, he is entering into a new relationship with the world around him. Henceforth, nothing will be commonplace or taken for granted. He becomes dedicated to finding what is meaningful beneath surface reality and searching for what lies beyond the facade of appearances. A photographer shows us a record of what was seen at the time of...
'Depth is hidden'
'Where?'
'On the surface'
June 2010
2 posts
We all wear masks
Our lives are surrounded by fears
Fear to reveal our true feelings
Fear not to meet expectations
Fear to hurt others
Fear to face the truth
Fear to think differently
Fear to be rejected
Fear to be ourselves
…
We all wear masks to avoid these fears.
Who are we ?
May 2010
13 posts
Seize the Day →
“The problem in today’s world is that people are used while things are...”
“I am without hope, I am without fear, I am free”
“We are surrounded by Bureaucrats, Note Takers, Literalist, Manual Readers, TGIF...”
– Seth Godin
“And I learned what is obvious to a child.
That life is simply a collection of...”
– ~ The Notebook (via gatekeeper)
April 2010
2 posts
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
3 posts
Dreams
…
I idly ask him what he had been thinking about.
His answer his, “Dreams.”
“Dreams?”
“Yes, but not the ones you have at night; the kind of dreams when you imagine your future, what you hope to come true.”
“And?”
“It’s been occurring to me that they are very important… but I’m not talking about trying to make...
The Geography of Bliss
“If I draw a circle, most people, when asked what I have drawn, will say I have drawn a circle or a disc, or a ball. Very few people will say I’ve drawn a hole in the wall, because most people think of the inside first, rather than thinking of the outside. But actually these two sides go together - you cannot have what is ‘in here’ unless you have what is ‘out there.’ ” In other words, where we...
December 2009
2 posts
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”
– (via mnmal)
November 2009
6 posts
For better reading on the Web →
“The good news is you don’t need to be brillant to be wise. The bad news is...”
– Barry Schwartz
“There is an aesthetic appeal to simplicity both in art and, even more, in...”
– Edward De Bono
Do not fail
To learn from
The pure voice of an
Ever-flowing mountain stream
Splashing over the rocks.
The Art of Peace- Morihei Ueshiba
October 2009
19 posts
“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
– Lao-Tzu
Benjamin Zander on music and passion
Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow and who hated his footprints, and so he tried to get away from them by running. But the more he lifted his feet and put them down again, the more footprints he made. And no matter how fast he ran, his shadow never left him, and so, thinking that he was still going too slowly, he ran faster and faster without a stop until his strength gave out and...
“The softest thing in the universe overcomes the hardest thing in the universe.”
– Lao Tzu
Seven Japanese aesthetic principles
From Presentation Zen
Kanso (簡素) Simplicity or elimination of clutter. Things are expressed in a plain, simple, natural manner. Reminds us to think not in terms of decoration but in terms of clarity, a kind of clarity that may be achieved through omission or exclusion of the non-essential.
Fukinsei (不均整) Asymmetry or irregularity. The idea of controlling balance in a composition via...
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of...”
– Frederic Chopin (via mnmal)
Minimal Flickr Pools →
“Mysteriously, wonderfully, I bid farewell to what goes, I greet what comes; for...”
– Chuang-tzu
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in...”
– Socrates, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Extreme minimalism in web design →
“Great fullness seems empty, yet it cannot be exhausted.”
– Lao Tzu
