Archive for the ‘mind over matter’ Category
Dan Gilbert – Exploring The Frontiers of Happiness
Posted by: darkchyld on: December 26, 2008
This 20 minutes presentation by Dan Gilbert illustrates the many examples of the tendencies that we have in underestimating or at times overestimating things that really makes it hard for us to make good rational decisions on the many things that we have to decide on. Pretty insightful and definitely worth [...]
Yes We Can
Posted by: darkchyld on: November 6, 2008
Poster by Shepard Fairey
This is to commemorate the victory of the man who so eloquently defined hope and rallied the masses to vote for a change. Yes We Can! It is inspiring indeed to see the whole world celebrating this event in unison.
Procrastination by Johnny Kelly
Posted by: darkchyld on: October 31, 2008
“Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first”
Procrastination, a wonderfully incisive video about procrastination created by Johnny Kelly for his MA in animation at the Royal College of Art. A must watch if you have about 4 minutes to errr…procrastinate. Hah the irony +)
Sleep & Creativity
Posted by: darkchyld on: September 30, 2008
Two very interesting article on sleep and creativity. One is about how cognitive performance can be improved just by sleep alone and the other is about the paradoxical traits of a creative personality.
On Sleep:
“Sleep makes a unique contribution,” explains Mark Jung-Beeman, a psychologist at Northwestern University who studies the neural bases of insight and creative [...]
Flickr Photos
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Alfie Goodrich
- "I can still hear the traffic but my head is in the trees..." Hibiya Park, Tokyo December 9, 2009I was out teaching Ingrid yesterday and we spent a little time in Hibiya Park, shooting the trees and the people. There was this one little place, quite near the street, where the light was amazingly beautiful. We hung around there for about 20minutes, kind of mesmerised by the leaves and the light. Nikon D300 Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 Ai @ f/1.2
Joe McNally
- Whadja Do This Weekend? December 14, 2009For me, it was a shoot fest. I was part of a three shooter team that went in on an event this weekend and just didn’t stop. Collectively, shot roughly 265 gigs. I’m knackered, so not much of a blog for Monday, but will catch up a bit by mid week. Just got word, actually via [...]
Jeff Staple
- SITE MOVE. July 18, 2009I'm torn to say that To Darrin Hudson will be shutting down.I've made the decision to move everything to a centralized www.stapledesign.com website. The new Staple Design website will encompass my blog, my Twitter Feed, the Design Studio, the Clothing Collection, Reed Space, Reed Pages...basically the whole Staple Universe! So while I have loved To […]
The Hundreds
- FIGURES. December 16, 2009Tomorrow morning at both THLA and THSF, The Hundreds will unveil its exclusive colorway of Michael Lau’s vinyl figure rendition of Adam Bomb. Lau is widely heralded as the pioneer of collectable vinyl figure art, especially in regards to street culture crossover. To have Lau offer his craftsmanship to our famed logo is an honor, [...]
