20,000 Leagues Under The Piano
“At that moment I heard the vague chords of the organ, a sad harmony under an indefinable melody, veritable wails of a soul that wished to break all terrestrial ties. I listened with all my senses, hardly breathing, plunged, like Captain Nemo, in one of those musical ecstasies which took him beyond the limits of […]
Technology and the ecosystem of creativity
CC: Ian Sane via Compfight This was originally the final paragraph of my essay for Bettery Magazine last month, and I’d thought I’d share it here and see what you all thought. “I was thinking about the ecosystem of creativity the other day, that it’s like compost and water and sun. The compost of a […]
James Baldwin on banishing fear
“The capacity for experience is what burns out fear.” — James Baldwin, interviewed in the Village Voice in 1984.