Ways that design can save the world

this list will grow....

• communication at its best becomes art that educates
• To seek for the beautiful in the daily things it undoubtedly helps us to...
  live better.

Advice for any situation

It is going to take a little bit longer than you think.


You should always care, and never be bothered.

Movies that Nikida wants to see by January, I mean March

Kabluey
A Scanner Darkly
Life Aquatic
The Brothers Bloom (fun surprises abound)
Men Who Stare at Goats
Food Inc
Up! (pixar really knows what they are doing)
Whip It
Rushmore (dear god bill murray is hilarious)
trust us this is all made up
Paprika
An Education
True Romance
God's Architects

Pirates of the Great Salt Lake

God Grew Tired of Us

where's paul when i need him?

books she wants to read

Overqualified
What is the What - Graham keeps letting me down :(
A Million Little Pieces
Down and Out in Paris and London
Infinite Jest

Roots

and i can't even draw my own face from memory

What makes all of the wild things happy?

Using that whole Facebook thing for work-related communication has been a terrifying test of focus but today proved a successful tab to my Firefox window because not only did I step into some pleasant lunch plans through the illustrious chat function, I was in position to stumble over this column of inspirational clarity- thanks of course to Father Michael. At first I was feeding my recent addiction to A N Y T H I N G involving "Where the Wild Things Are" but as I indulged my momentary obsession, I was extremely grateful that the work day was coming to a close, allowing me to dig into these ideas and come to terms with some of the Wild Things inside of myself.

Though I feel like Paul Bloom's idea that our multiple selves are fighting for control is a little more competitive than what I'm pretty sure is happening inside my head- the cross-situational instability caused by a subconscious collision of desires is an incendiary source of indecision and remorse. Understanding the cause of anything bad makes us think we can fix it, but as soon as I began to list the different ways I could convince the multiple selves to get along, they start fighting about how. This paradox of Wild Things helps us understand that there is no way to equalize their desires, we just have to keep loving with all of our hearts and creating with all of our abilities- even when they're acting up.

Both of my parents are crafty people in completely different ways- my dad builds boats in his spare time, while my mom assembles the most insane collection of scrapbooks known to man. I'm thankful that I they past their creative tendencies to your truly because I have discovered so many outlets where all of the wild things inside of me can be silenced by the tedium of producing.

Berlin does Tetris.

This theme song to this is going to be stuck in my head all day.

Berlin Block Tetris from Sergej Hein on Vimeo.

Troubadours are coming; troubadours are here, their world is fire, their sound is a spear.

NC News

It gets harder and harder to become homesick for my close, but oh-so-far homestate of North Carolina when I keep stumbling across news stories that make N Carolinians seem afraid of the swine flu vaccine (still funny), or crazy enough to bring a partially eaten pork chop to the local news station to show them it looks like rudolph!