January 2012
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The Ultimate Economist →
October 2011
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“Coelho on uncertainty // Only mediocrity is sure of itself , so take risks and...”
September 2011
17 posts
in madrid
Last week I made a quick, but positive decision ; to go and see Aaron and Joaquin in Madrid. Before 48 hours had passed I had rented an apartment in the building next to were they live.
It’s all on , a new challenge , new language , new inspiration.
Around the corner from the London Stock exchange.
Now that I have been out of any kind of academic structure for three months, I have started to reflect on questions that have appeared before, but were cast aside to make space for the prescribed set of tasks I had ahead of me in the college year. It takes space and distance from other demands to re-examine the way global systems operate ,...
Green Design for Chicago
NEW CITY HALL IS SET TO HAVE A GREEN ROOFTOP. AMAZING.
below:
some plans for the city.
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/greeninitiatives/greenroofs/main.htm
a.m in seven points | coffee and music.
TRAVIS AND EMERY , two pound books from red hot chilli peppers to opera. mmmhhmm , yep.
“35 p copies of the (pastel pink) financial times @ the LSE bookshop made my...”
Rene Descartes - "cities are an inventory of the...
trafalgar square in the morning. so much energy.
on creativity _ from kanye west
THE CLOSEST THING WE HAVE TO FACT IS COMMON OPINION. EVERYTHING IS AN OPINION. THE WAY YOU DRESS IS AN OPINION. YOUR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ARE YOUR OPINION. THE MUSIC YOU TURN UP LOUD IS YOUR OPINION.
FOR MOST PEOPLE IT’S EASIER TO JUST AGREE.FOR ME THE HARDEST THING IS JUST TO AGREE , AND THAT’S WHAT SPARKS CREATIVITY. THE FEELING THAT SOMETHING CAN BE BETTER , THE FEELING THAT...
“G.E Moore on Bloomsbury ; one’s prime objects in life were love ,...”
Kelis feat. Andre 3000 _ Millionaire →
The chorus popped into my head when I was on the escalator at the Holburn tube station. I couldn’t place it all morning…and then it was Outkast , but wait, it’s KELIS and Andre 3000.All the way turned up.
monocle magazine →
I picked up a copy of monocle magazine from the Londis in Bloomsbury. Lupe Fiasco mentions it in ’the cool’ and I wanted to know why it got a shout out. After spending a rainy friday afternoon with a copy I can see why. A bit of global insight , from Oakland down to Auckland.
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“less sure about everything , it freed me to enter one of the most creative...”
– A word on being unscheduled from Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. 