Animated Taylor Mali Poem
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What is a Maverick?
/Did you know the term ‘maverick’ comes from Samuel Maverick?
He was a Texas lawyer, politician, land baron and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. In 1867 he went against the norm and refused to brand his cattle. His fellow ranchers began to call unbranded cattle mavericks.
Another word for unbranded cattle? Slick.
Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds"
/via sounds.mercurytheatre.info
If you’ve never heard it, not it’s your chance to catch up with this classic.
The Art of Money by Yordan Silvera
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via yographic.com
Another amazing student project that looks at the art in paper currencies around the world. Fantastic idea gorgeously executed.
Paula Scher on Failure
/You have to get bad in order to get good. You have to try a lot of things and fail in order to make the next discovery.
That works in a short-term methodology when you’re just working on a specific project, but also long-term in terms of a whole career. I find I make big discoveries and I make huge leaps and then I repeat myself and I’ll be known for what I did—I’ll get the acclaim for the breakthrough—and that elevates everyone’s expectation of who I am and what I’m supposed to do, and I will repeat that because it has become successful.
And I will repeat it and repeat it until it provokes my utter failure because I’m going along doing exactly what I did. And it’s very hard to make the breakthrough because in order to make the breakthrough again, to go up again, you either have to fail or be unqualified for a job where you don’t know what you’re doing, where you make honest mistakes because that’s how you learn. And that success is its own guarantee of failure.