Eric Ellis & Tumblr
Bob Dylan’s Dream
While riding on a train going west
I fell asleep for to take my rest
I dreamed a dream and it made me sad
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had
With half damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many afternoon
Where we together we weathered many a storm
Laughing and singing, ‘till the early hours of the morn
By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung
Our words was told our songs were sung
We longed for nothing and we were satisfied
Joking and talking about the world outside
With hungry hearts through the heat and cold
We never much thought we could get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
And our chances were really, was a million to one
As easy as it was to tell black from white
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
And our choices they was few so thought never hit
That the one road we traveled, would ever shattered or split
Ah many a year has passed and gone
Many a gamble has been lost and won
And many a road taken by many a first friend
And each one I’ve never seen again
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
That we could sit simply in that room again
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
I’d give it all gladly, if our lives could be like that
1963
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Posted Sep. 16 – 2011 / 2 Notes / Tagged: inspiration words
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If our ideas seem smaller nowadays, it’s not because we are dumber than our forebears but because we just don’t care as much about ideas as they did. In effect, we are living in an increasingly post-idea world — a world in which big, thought-provoking ideas that can’t instantly be monetized are of so little intrinsic value that fewer people are generating them and fewer outlets are disseminating them, the Internet notwithstanding. Bold ideas are almost passé.
Posted Aug. 23 – 2011 / 1 Notes / Tagged: words
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Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.
Milan Kundera
Posted Aug. 10 – 2011 / 1 Notes / Tagged: words
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People seem unable to admit this principle of chance. Our spirits are not strong enough to stand the idea of life being a mere succession of chances—the idea, that is, of infinity. Each of us in his individual existence, which is contained between the chance of his birth and the chance of his death, identifies those few incidents that have arisen through what he styles his “will”, and the thing that emerges consistently from this he calls his “character” or again his “life”. Thus we contrive to comfort ourselves, there is, in fact, no other way for us to think.
Fires On the Plain, Ooka Shohei, 1951, Penguin Publishing, p233
Posted Aug. 5 – 2011 / 3 Notes / Tagged: words inspiration
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“That Cat—Curled up and asleep in the Sun, the World goes quiet for a moment.”
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“FREE Music Monday @ Millenium Park, August the sixth, 2011. So hot on the sun real nice in the SHADE with that sweet Chicago breeze blowing cross the great J. Pritzker lawn of green grass. Mo & I sip the cold beer and watch the 90s inspired crowd listenin to Iron+Wine. Not a bad time”
Posted Aug. 1 – 2011 / 1 Notes / Tagged: drawing words
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…It’s to do with meaning. That’s such a slogan, but it’s the best word I can find for it. The familiar opposition is meaning and style. Meaning forces its way up and it’s like a root growing under a pavement. When it’s coming up, it breaks the paving stones. Many people would like these paving stones in a nice grid, but unfortunately there is this tree with all its pressures and necessities, and this is the tree of meaning and you have to follow it. So it breaks the pattern.
Posted Jul. 27 – 2011 / 3 Notes / Tagged: words inspiration
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“ Wabi-sabi (侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent and incomplete”. It is a concept derived from the Buddhist assertion of the Three marks of existence (三法印), specifically impermanence (無常).
Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, asperity (roughness or irregularity), simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.”
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(Source: phaidon.com)
Posted Jun. 4 – 2011 / 0 Notes / Tagged: words alan-fletcher drawing
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… in order for design to really matter, designers need to think and know more about things besides design.
William Drenttel
Posted May. 26 – 2011 / 2 Notes / Tagged: words inspiration
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