Moral imagination: the humility to see the world as it is, and the audacity to imagine the world as it could be.
— Beautiful words from the new Acumen Manifesto. (via explore-blog)
“You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.”
Digital Merzbau
Chinese project combines art, 3D printing, geometry and recursion:
Merzbau is a project by a German artist Kurt Schwitters began in 1923 in Hanover for a series of room transformation of his house. With art of collage, restructuring process, he re-used the discarded building materials from which made into furniture, walls to ceiling, creating a form of decorative and structural integration, basically following a certain design rules. Today, in the computational context, we tried to create a series of our own logic from the prototype “Merzbau”.
From parenting to dating, an illustrated explanation of conditioned human responses and how we behave like Pavlovian dogs. Also see what the genius of dogs reveals about human intelligence.
This is the first post I’m reblogging (yeah, yeah, I’ve barely posted anything). It just resonates with me on so many levels, I can call this; my personal mantra.
The evolution of minds. The combustion of ideas into more complicated ideas. And the role of the human consciousness in this whirlwind magnifying the earthly elements; and miniaturizing the vast universe around us.
A speech from Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, appositely coined the “Greatest Speech Ever Made”.
The amazing aspect of this video is how it relates the 21st century to the previous century, demonstrating how man truly remains unchanged.
Another Rain Metaphor
Why do we run when it’s raining? Well, there turns out to be a lot of physics in explaining why that action is ineffectual because the same amount of rain gets on you whether you walk or run, except of course if you spend less time under the rain.
Except for this guy of course
The rain fallacy after some afterthought led me to an observation, which is not new, however it does allow for one more metaphor which describes how much we love to run. Now, some people are outright lazy such as myself, but what we all have in common is we run away from pain, toil, discomfort.. It’s a natural trait, and it probably increases our lifespan, nevertheless, when we run away from pain we are often running away from success, happiness, or even paradise.
That droplet of rain might be the one that washes away the tears. So, don’t be afraid to walk under the rain; firstly, because it’s futile to run, and secondly, because it might be just what you need.
And yes, that’s me..
