but this is nowhere

Stole this from bartpogoda.net

Literary Quote

"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough." - Toni Morrison

Literary Quote

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - Andre Gide

Illustration by Maurice Denis

thought this was clever

"The New South Wales Police Force has launched a campaign focusing on the many people who are run over when crossing the road, because of loud music from iPods and other mp3 players. Fantastic execution, done by DDB Australia."
posted on Journale - Asgeir Hoem, original post titled iDie

Happy New Year!

google vs. yahoo

quote

"I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon, but I want to stay alive." - MADONNA, during a radio interview, on how she wants her art and philanthropy to inspire people. Can you tell that she has scored 130 points on an IQ test?

Poster

I feel sorry for this guy.

"'I don't know how I'm going to feed myself.' - R.J. Bollard
a freshman at the University of Washington, who said he had 73 cents left to his name after buying the video game Halo 3."

Quotes of the day - on time’s home page today

My Coffee Need

As I am sitting in the office missing my morning cup of coffee, I suddenly realized that the need is not simply just for caffeine, it’s the need for something to do while sitting in front of my computer working, it’s boredom, it’s more psychological than physical. Now, I know I have a history of seeking comfort in food, mostly during my college years, stress would be the thing that made me raid the fridge in the middle of the night, a few hours before a project due with hardly any of the work done.. boredom is a new one for me. I wonder if it’s developed with any 9 to 5 type of job or just my job?

Rediscover Sedaris

When I took this book off of the shelves in Barns&Noble, it wasnt becuz of Sedaris, I had no clue about him nor his writing whatsoever, I did because the cover design. As a graphic designer, I find myself buying books (or about anything) way too often based on whether or not the covers look good. Sometimes I get lucky, sometimes I waste money.
I read this book two thirds of the way through and decided that it was a waste of money. It was simply too mellow and too slow for me to even breathe. Now, I normally try hard to finish a book before starting another one, if I had to stop in the middle, it’s pretty bad.
After this book was forgotten for almost a year, I one day over my oatmeal at breakfast started reading a random paragraph in a recently issue of the New Yorker, ..very charming writing, I made a note to come back to it the next morning, um.. witty, I finally was curious enough to start the article from the beginning and found out it was Sedaris. (This Old House by David Sedaris, the New Yorker July 9 & 16 2007, p42-47). Turn out, his writing is like old wine, if you gulp it down like beer it gets a little dry, the only way to enjoy its flavor to the fullest is to savor one glass at a time. So I dug it out and savored the rest of it.