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side 3 of the White Album simply rocks…

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:23:23 -0400

side 3 of the White Album simply rocks…

Thelonious Monk at the piano with other players in February...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:03:16 -0500

Thelonious Monk at the piano with other players in February 1959, rehearsing in a loft at 821 Avenue of the Americas.

"A genius is the one most like himself"

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:20:12 -0400

“A genius is the one most like himself”

- Thelonius Monk

“If I get in there and think about it too much I’ll...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:58:07 -0400

“If I get in there and think about it too much I’ll just muck things up, you know… I really will….My paintings are a lot smarter than I am, that’s for sure.” - Fred Valentine

"…a pencil sharpener—that highly satisfying, highly philosophical implement that goes..."

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:14:57 -0400

“…a pencil sharpener—that highly satisfying, highly philosophical implement that goes ticonderoga-ticonderoga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet wood, and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all must.”

- Pnin by Nabokov…genius. Happy back-to-school, kids and parents!

A stunning pic of Saturn eclipsing the sun, from NASA, taken by...

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:11:44 -0400

A stunning pic of Saturn eclipsing the sun, from NASA, taken by the Cassini spacecraft.

Brazenhead Books is a “secret” bookstore, somewhere...

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:04:48 -0400

Brazenhead Books is a “secret” bookstore, somewhere on the Upper East Side of NYC. This video is beautiful, and it’s now on the list for my next visit to the city.

photojojo: Lorenzo Duran cuts leaves into intricate images like...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:24:08 -0400

photojojo:

Lorenzo Duran cuts leaves into intricate images like this tiny forest-scape!

Leaf Cutting Art by Lorenzo Duran

East Harlem - Beirut

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:38:50 -0400

East Harlem - Beirut

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Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:17:29 -0400

The internet and education - Khan Academy

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:29:00 -0400

Over a year ago I wrote about using the internet to supplement education. Recently a Los Altos public school started piloting the use of internet lectures to supplement two 5th grade math classes. Check out the TED talk from the founder of Khan Academy, which provides pre-recorded lecture content (free to anyone on the site).

In the talk, Khan Academy founder Salman Khan quotes a teacher who says:

“We use your videos to flip the classroom. You’ve already given the lectures. So now what we do is… I assign the [video] lectures for homework, and what used to be homework, I now have the students doing in the classroom.”

Crazy - Yeasayer / Seal cover People of my generation: take a...

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:11:00 -0500

Crazy - Yeasayer / Seal cover

People of my generation: take a listen to this cover of Seal’s “Crazy”, by Yeasayer.

"Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be so persistent. It..."

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:56:00 -0500

“Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be so persistent. It wouldn’t be in every culture. We wouldn’t know about it…”

- Milton Glaser: first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts. Glaser continues:

How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, “that looks just like Cézanne.” And you realize Cézanne has made you see the reality of the forest in a way that you never could have seen before. He’s made you attentive. Every work of art that you care about makes us attentive. And if it doesn’t do that it ain’t art.

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Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:29:16 -0500

Absolute Beginners - The Jam A little Jam for an energetic...

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:06:44 -0400

Absolute Beginners - The Jam

A little Jam for an energetic Saturday.

via bijan

Friday is a good day for expansive thought. Love this...

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:50:08 -0400

Friday is a good day for expansive thought. Love this photo.

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let your mind wander (by arndalarm)

So Lonely - The Police Not feeling lonely, just a good...

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:44:00 -0400

So Lonely - The Police

Not feeling lonely, just a good tune.

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People are driven by autonomy, mastery, and higher purpose

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:37:00 -0400

Great lecture, and fun to watch. What motivates performance? Autonomy, mastery, and purpose… I buy it. via tereza

Paul Graham on internet addiction

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:30:10 -0400

Paul Graham on internet addiction :

Paul Graham always writes a thoughtful essay, and his most recent essay on internet addiction is no exception.

Something to ponder, from the footnotes:

People commonly use the word “procrastination” to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what’s happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.

Several people have told me they like the iPad because it lets them bring the Internet into situations where a laptop would be too conspicuous. In other words, it’s a hip flask.

Moves - The New Pornographers This band is simply great. I...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:58:00 -0400

Moves - The New Pornographers

This band is simply great. I think it’s a fuzzed out cello rocking that riff… love it.

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