Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
— Paul Rand
Installed the Mockingbird Awnings (along with a whole truckload of other stuff) in Boerne, TX last weekend. Gumby chain support is going to be replaced with some handmade wrought iron.
Mockingbird Awning - Outside (via mark leichliter)
I never really >got< the Springsteen thing. But, holy shit, this is so good.
Springsteen - Thunder Road (via glammer)
When you become a brand, you have to repeat yourself. It’s a condition of post-capitalism. Your reputation forces you to repeat what people are expecting from you. And it is a kind of cannibalism of yourself, an autophagy*, where you promote yourself on the basis of your given self and never to try to change. If you change, you break the brand, because immediately the system says, ‘What? What are you doing? We are just commissioning you to be you, not to be something other than you.
—
Francois Roche, via
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
— Winston Churchill
Any idiot can face a crisis. It is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
— Anton Chekov
