“We’re happier when busy, but unfortunately our instinct is for idleness. Unless we have a reason for being active we choose to do nothing - an evolutionary vestige that ensures we conserve energy.”
—BPS Research Digest
July 2010
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“To get on autopilot, pedestrian-style, look down at the feet of the people around you. The head and torso are lagging indicators and often give you bad information with regards to the speed and direction people are traveling. All that information is in the feet.”
—How to walk Through Crowds
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This ongoing project explores the roots and systems of creativity.
Many featured creators will be amateurs. Many will be professionals you’ve never heard of and may never hear of again. What they have or have not accomplished is irrelevant—if someone harbors a creative spark, a unique way…
“He had spent decades going where he wasn’t supposed to: climbing onto roofs at age seven, sneaking through the subway at twelve, delving into the Paris catacombs at fourteen. He and his co-conspirators met at school in the 1980s, when many Latin Quarter colleges still had basement access into the tunnels. Although Parisians have been sneaking into the catacombs (known as carrières) for centuries, Kunstmann and his friends had no taste for the usual “cataphile” hijinks. Too young to drink, not interested in drugs, they instead began to explore, map, and expand the underground network. Eventually, Kunstmann tells me, they entered a “post-post-exploration phase.” After “you go, you survey—then it’s time to do something.”
—The Lizard, the Catacombs, and the Clock
“I’ve come to the conclusion that what superheroes might be – in their current incarnation, at least – is a symbol of American reluctance to involve themselves in any kind of conflict without massive tactical superiority,” Moore said. “I think this is the same whether you have the advantage of carpet bombing from altitude or if you come from the planet Krypton as a baby.”
—Alan Moore
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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention, dragging themselves through virtual communities at 3 am, surrounded by stale pizza and neglected dreams, looking for angry meaning, any meaning, same hat wearing hipsters burning for shared and skeptical approval from the holographic projected dynamo in the technology of the era, who weak connections and recession wounded and directionless, sat up, micro-conversing in the supernatural darkness of Wi-Fi-enabled cafes, floating across the tops of cities, contemplating techno, who bared their brains to the black void of new media and the thought leaders and so called experts who passed through community colleges with radiant, prank playing eyes, hallucinating…”
—McSweeney’s: Tweet.
