“It’s not about power. It’s about artistic freedom. And if it is about power, it’s a power you can give to yourself anytime you want. If you can’t be bought, you’re the richest man in the world. I just always feel if you can make something from scratch you’ll always be OK. Growing up, one of my favourite quotes was “Ability is a poor man’s wealth.” John Wooden said that. And I tried to prove him right.”
From the insightful pen / blog of Ricky Gervais.
Folks review, take stock, gaze back, reach forward, look inwards, hope outwards… we surround ourselves in pledges as aggrandizement.
2012 will be a year I continue to:
The new focus will be to:
…but most importantly: DO MORE!
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
Henry Ford
Gnat Gnat was my digital scrapbook.
It’s tagline served a bigger idea of how even the smallest things can affect things.
It existed as a dump for all the amazing brain melting stuff I found following digital breadcrumbs and was hosted on the fab little blogging platform Posterous.
It’s mouth-watering content and future activity will now be folded into this blog (sorry if you’ve been getting many and random updates through your email / rss subscriptions as currently making good all the blog posts over the coming weeks).
Sure they sometimes get the limelight / ‘wow’ people / win the game but it’s the end you’re watching. Without the incremental stages, the small advances, the tiny steps, the crescendo would’ve never have been achieved.
Never undervalue the tiniest continual effort and it’s place in the larger narrative of your goals / life.
You’ve probably seen the above video from the University of California, Davis Occupy Movement event.
However, have you seen what happened after the spraying?
Please watch the whole video and note:
If a picture is worth a thousand words then the above video is Artamène.
Change is afoot…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-LtgZ71RJ0
Positive story—so want to visit this place…
Came across this amazingly beautiful coded logo from the talented people at Typeslashcode—mixed in with some freesound.org / ERH and you get the above…
“Paint the walls grey and the mind will follow.”