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Robert Genn’s Ten Commandments of Art Pricing

admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:16:32 +0000

Thou shalt start out cheap. Thou shalt publish thy prices. Thou shalt raise thy prices regularly and a little. Thou shalt not lower thy prices. Thou shalt not have one price for Sam and another for Joe. Thou shalt not price by talent or time taken, but by size. Thou shalt not easily discount thy [...]

10 Myths about Introverts

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:43:19 +0000

Myth #3 – Introverts are rude. Introverts often don’t see a reason for beating around the bush with social pleasantries. They want everyone to just be real and honest. Unfortunately, this is not acceptable in most settings, so Introverts can feel a lot of pressure to fit in, which they find exhausting. Myth #4 – [...]

Banksy on Modern Artists

admin — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:43:03 +0000

“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say [...]

Some Thoughts, Possibly Related, on Time, Criticism, and the Nature of Consciousness

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:42:20 +0000

The wonderful Mike Daisey posted this, but it was a great read, so I’m sharing it too: SECTION 1. Thanks, everyone, for coming. You’re all sitting down so nicely for this lecture, which is a lecture in 10 sections—or, more accurately, a rough draft of a lecture, with you all as my test audience. Right [...]

The Death of the Curator

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:45:35 +0000

One of the many new startups strutting their stuff at sxsw was Roqbot, a service that aims to get bars/restaurants/and cafes to replace their current music set-up (iPod) with their service, that allows patrons to choose pre-selected songs via their mobile devices. The service promises to let you: “Be the DJ at your favorite bars, [...]

Doubts

admin — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:39:57 +0000

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. - from “Measure for Measure,” by William Shakespeare

The New Humanism

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:18:18 +0000

Over the past few decades, we have tended to define human capital in the narrow way, emphasizing I.Q., degrees, and professional skills. Those are all important, obviously, but this research illuminates a range of deeper talents, which span reason and emotion and make a hash of both categories: Attunement: the ability to enter other minds [...]

Social Media and the Middle Way

admin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:35:56 +0000

Being Buddhist (or Buddhist-y) can be alienating in some ways. The philosophy doesn’t view a lot of modern American habits as skillful (consumerism, identity, and social media). Tricycle, a magazine about Buddhism that I sometimes see in Whole Foods (but have never picked up) has this article regarding being mindful on social media. I’m still [...]

Make Your Own Light

admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:39:11 +0000

Playboy: “If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it’s worth living?” Kubrick: “Yes, for those of us who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total [...]