December 2011
17 posts
Somewhere between what you need and what you know
Remember the fabulousness of Sarah Key? If I recall correctly, she mentioned that an exercise she proposes to her poetry students is to list “10 things they know to be true”. Since she is now in my unlikely “list of women I’d like to have tea with and maybe pay them to become my friends” (Miranda July, Louise Bourgeois, Camilla Engman et. alt. are also in there), I...
Píntame un sol (paint me a sun)
My weekly post for ¿Y por qué no? is here!
Swap a little, live a lot
When I saw this clip in Jezebel, it made me feel I found an answer to what I was saying yesterday. I kept on thinking about whether something like that could have happened in Spain, and I guess the trick is to think that it couldn’t, the same as thinking it couldn’t happen to oneself. Nonetheless, family ties are, generally speaking, stronger (or merely more present) in mediterranean...
The possibilities of a future
I have been waiting for The Future by Miranda July (who doesn’t completely adore her?) to hit the Spanish cinemas. I sitll haven’t been able to go watch it, but I’ve been subscribed to her future-telling newsletter for a while. And it’s been a spooky experience. She, kind of… guesses? makes me feel like she guesses? some things. Maybe it’s just coincidence, or...
Hack Your Job (via the 99 %)
I found this inspiring interview here. And here’s a few highlights:
“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.”
“After work and on the weekends, I kind of secretly built out a little screen printing studio. Once I...
Hacer la comunión (taking comunion)
New blog post on Ikea’s sustainability strategy for “Y por qué no”. As usual, also filed in my Texts.
El futuro de Vermeer (Vermeer's future)
Little post for ¿Y por qué no? available here.
(and added to my texts section)
When I woke up, the dance was still there
10th December - ‘A-Punk’ by Vampire Weekend. from lewisnluke on Vimeo.
Rumor has it the shortest tale in the world is by Monterroso and it goes like this:
When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there.
When I discovered The Art of Dancing (apologies for the lack of reference, I don’t even recall where I saw the site for the first time), I had one of those “duh!”...
WatchA Step-by-step guide to not creating a chair
via Fast Company’s Co.Design. Challenge website here.
Tales for cigarrettes
I saw this video of the author of Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies in Treehugger some weeks ago.
As you know, I keep banging about how the current economic climate in Spain should provoke loads of alternatives. And I’m so terribly happy to be able to announce one of them! (because that greatly reduces the amount of grumpiness of this site).
Inés is a...
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
Morran and Camilla
I don’t know if you ever had a dog. “Having” a dog is not quite the same as living with one. “Having” a dog means something very, very deep and it is difficult to explain (I’m not quite sure it works exactly the same with cats). You see, dogs are old souls. You can just see it in their eyes. They know and love you more than they seem able to. They are terribly...
On dropbox and love
Mr. M. And me share a little notebook computer. We take it to conferences and events, and I take it to the office. The deal is not exactly 50/50. I have a shy lonely folder called “Maria” which is my virtual Narnia. He’s furnished the machine with ubuntu and a dreadful ant screen saver. But that’s ok. There’s this box-shaped icon on the top bar of the desktop that represents dropbox. In the...