A demographic portrait of humanity if the world were 100 people. Best thing since Toby Ng’s World of 100 infographic posters.
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Photographs of fragile things with illustrated text from Neil Gaiman’s book Fragile Things. Part One of Three.
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A FEATHER.
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
Lisa Congdon illustrates Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein’s avant-garde 1914 verses about everyday objects.
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A timeline of the One Ring, from an ambitious project visualizing Tolkien’s books. Best thing since Jack Kerouac visualized and The Beatles charted.
Complement with Cartographies of Time – a visual history of the timeline.
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Skyscraper: 5 Opportunities to Introduce Yourself →
Introducing yourself can be straight awkward. We’ve all been there - that deer-caught-in-the-headlights moment when we’re not sure if we should pretend to text someone, take a sip of our drink, or just man up and say, “Hi, I’m _______.”
Kelly Beall has been there before too, and she wrote a…
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French-Cuban writer Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) endures as one of history’s most prolific, dedicated, and timelessly insightful diarists. The fifteen volumes of her journals published to date, which she began at the age of eleven and kept up until shortly before her death, span six decades of profound introspection and keen observation of public life.
Nin crossed paths with some of modernity’s most celebrated writers, artists, psychiatrists, and intellectuals, including Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, Otto Rank, Salvador Dalí, John Cage, Robert Duncan, Peggy Guggenheim, and her longtime lover Henry Miller. Her records of these encounters and relationships read like a lyrical alternative history of 20th century intellectual life.
But more than merely recording public life and her private reflections, Nin’s journals exude a remarkable faith in the creative spirit, a kind of optimism about life and the wisdom of the heart even in the direst of circumstances, from world wars to life in poverty to repeated professional rejection. Hers was a tireless quest for wholeness and integration, blending a cultural insider’s perceptiveness with an outsider’s sensitivity – an immigrant, a woman, a struggling writer, who at one point even founded her own press in order to self-publish her and her literary friends’ work, learning to operate a heavy letterpress machine and painstaking typesetting the books by hand.
Nin was also a relentless champion of the female spirit, poetically venerating “woman’s role in the reconstruction of the world” in a 1944 diary entry – a sentiment from which this very project borrows its title.
Learn more: Brain Pickings | Wikipedia
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Hope you have a fantastic year!
