Have a great week, folks!
🎨 A study in bright menece. Or something.
🕹️ 🍸 My swear-y attempt at playing Castlevania: Rondo of Blood while drinking a Bloody Mary.
🎨 It's WALL-E, but twitchy.
🎨 This one speaks for itself.
Austin Kleon quotes Alan Moore on inspiration for writers.
"If you are inspired by a good book, there’s always the danger of plagiarism, of doing something that is too much like that good book. Whereas, a genuinely helpful reaction to a piece of work that you’re reading is, ‘Jesus Christ, I could write this shit!’"
I've heard versions of this sentiment many times, and I subscribe to the notion. I certainly enjoy lots of bad media.
From the Interconnected blog
creative works are commentaries on the act of creation.
Some examples I found more compelling than others, but overall an interesting lense to look at creative work. That the act of creating is made visible in the end product.
Went for a bike ride with my dad. The ride left an impression. So did the helmet. In my head. #baldlife
Enjoyed this introspective post on consumption from hidden tiramisu. Taught me about the diderot effect, which is essentially the opposite of collector brain. Not wanting something is better than having it. Not having an apartment right now and traveling out of a backpack, I can co-sign on that.
Kyle E. Mitchell on confusing open source license terms.
Why not simply deprecate all these troublesome terms? Or push for more “correct” definitions? Because that doesn’t work… It’s all as self-limiting as…calling the Kindle the “Swindle”… The difference between the names we use and the names everyone else uses are merely unintentional lists of our clear political losses.
Many activists rely on ideological purity over more nuanced tactics, as the latter requires rigorous self reflection.
Having a simple playbook makes it easier to define for new members, and makes clear when the in group is performing their dogmatic duties.
These are real benefits to organizing. The problem: it doesn’t work well for achieving actual change.