Five Manifestos for Life. By Kirstin Butler How a numbered list can start a personal revolution.
Some days everyone needs a little extra encouragement. The words or lines or colors don’t want to come, or worse, we don’t even want to sit down to create. That’s when we turn to these inspiring manifestos, any one of which is guaranteed to give our uncooperative creativity a sharp kick in the pants. Here are five of our favorite contemporary manifestos that nudge ideas out of your head and into the hands of the world.
We’ve long been fans of the amazing work of Frederick Terral, the creative visionary behind design studio Right Brain Terrain. You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don’t have to be. We can’t imagine more sound advice. Guidelines to get you from Point A to finished product, The Cult of Done Manifesto was written by tech guru Bre Pettis (of MakerBot fame) in collaboration with writer Kio Stark in 20 minutes, “because we only had 20 minutes to get it done.” This is your life. There is an enemy.
FICTION REALITE. TRENDS. The Gaga Effect Spreads to Tumblr. A post on Lady Gaga’s Tumblr account.
Is there any technology platform that Lady Gaga, the eccentric and entertaining pop songstress, can’t dominate? She’s already appeared in a commercial for Google Chrome, started her own game on FarmVille, crashed Amazon’s servers and partnered with companies like Gilt and Polaroid to release special-edition products. Next on her list? Her own account on Tumblr, a microblogging platform that is heavy on visuals.
Her first post on the service appeared late Monday night and she’s been updating regularly ever since. Of course, Tumblr already has its share of celebrities; for example, the comedian Donald Glover and the singer Katy Perry have had accounts on the service for some time. La voiture individuelle: une idée bonne pour la casse! Préoccupations écolos, saturation urbaine et crise et c'est la fin du règne de la voiture individuelle au profit du véhicule serviciel et du partage.
L'occasion de se pencher sur les projets les plus prometteurs. Ce dossier en trois volets explore la mutation du marché automobile. Que comprendre des signes que ne cesse de produire la demande ? Qu’entendre derrière ces initiatives brouillonnes de l’offre ? Quelle place pour les autorités dans ces perspectives de maîtrise des mobilités ? #1 La flambée des ventes en Chine, Inde… masque les reculs des marchés en Europe, Etats-Unis et un ralentissement de la croissance chez les premiers… Les mêmes causes produisant les mêmes effets, des signes de saturations se multiplient déjà en Chine. #2 Les incitations fiscales des états agissent comme “effets d’aubaine” et reculent le constat d’une dégradation de la demande. . #4 La progression des ventes vers les flottes dissimule la chute des ventes aux particuliers.
Mental Benefits Of Running To Get You Rearing To Go. I t’s pretty obvious, if you look at a runner’s body or read some of the amazing stories online, that hitting the pavements or treadmill has a phenomenal impact on the body and looking at the physical benefits there are plenty of reasons to start running. Running is as much psychological as it is physical and understanding these psychological benefits of running is an important step to keep motivated. In a European study conducted by Asics recently, the physical benefits proved to be the driving factor behind our decision to start running. Asics European Study - Top 10 Reasons To Start Running When Asics compared the reasons to start running versus reasons to keep on running the results were interesting in that the psychological benefits such as; mental reward increased by 78%, stress-release was up by 66% and the fun factor shot up 54% all in favour of keeping up the habit. Asics European Study - Start Running v Continue Running The Legal High Combat Stress with Running Improving Self-Esteem.