Category: Misc

Criticism’s Sting: The Author Curtis Sittenfeld on Book Reviews (Published 2016) The novelist describes how she reacts to unsparing reviews and has come to take criticism less personally: “Sometimes fate smiles on you and sometimes it doesn’t.” Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/books/criticisms-sting-the-author-curtis-sittenfeld-on-book-reviews.html I think of reviews being mapped on a graph with four quadrants, and I’ll read the…

Why Excessive Consumption Limits your Creativity “When a creative artist is fatigued it is often from too much inflow, not too much outflow” — Julia Cameron via Medium: https://medium.com/the-mission/why-excessive-consumption-limits-your-creativity-6e925dd66daa Excessive consumption and inflow inhibit creativity, negatively impacts our ability to do deep work and reduces our cumulative output. So let’s look at how and why…

Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It. Our increasing addiction to the constant stimulus of updates, likes and posts is damaging our ability to concentrate deeply and focus on work that matters. Link: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/jobs/quit-social-media-your-career-may-depend-on-it.html In a capitalist economy, the market rewards things that are rare and valuable. Social media use is decidedly not…

The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t In the digital economy, it was supposed to be impossible to make money by making art. Instead, creative careers are thriving — but in complicated and unexpected ways. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-creative-apocalypse-that-wasnt.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 In the digital economy, it was supposed to be impossible to make money by making art. Instead, creative careers are…

An Open Letter from Your Horrible Facebook Friends Remember: the dress was white and gold, everything in the Onion should be read literally, and Kim Kardashian is actually working for the C.I.A. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/an-open-letter-from-your-horrible-facebook-friends?intcid=mod-most-popular We’re your Facebook friends. Those Facebook friends. You know the ones. The moms who have recently gotten into…

50 Awesome Photography Websites Feature Shoot Recommends for Daily Inspiration – Feature Shoot With the demise of our blogroll, we thought we’d shine some light on 50 unique photo blogs that we think are inspiring. While we follow greats like LightBox, Behold and the Huffington Post, we tried to compile a diverse array of blogs…

LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/01/13/pjl-january-2014-part-1/ lawyers from Venable LLP for AFP and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP for Getty filed post-trial documents asking the court to strike the jury’s finding of wilful infringement and greatly reduce the damages awarded to Morel. Failing that, they have requested that…

Inmobiliaria tres:16 Empresa especialista en la intermediación y promoción de bienes raíces y desarrollos inmobiliarios. Link: http://tres16.com/  “Inconscience” (french for “Unconsciousness”) is a photographic project about sleepers in the world, that I started few years ago. I began to photograph sleepers that I came accross during my travels. I saw in them so much poetry, but…