Andy Warhol on Sex and Love. By Maria Popova “Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.” “Is sex necessary?” Young E.B. White and James Thurber asked in their endlessly delightful 1929 collaboration. Warhol, who identified as gay and whose work drew heavily on his participation in the LGBT community, confessed to his biographer in 1980, at the age of fifty-two, that he was still a virgin. Portrait of Andy Warhol by Jack Mitchell Warhol’s central premise is that our greatest anguish about love and sex comes from the buildup of our fantasies and their inevitable clash with reality — the bodily counterpart to Stendhal’s “crystallization” theory.
The most exciting thing is not-doing-it. Consciously or not, his facetious approach to the subject becomes a meta-testament to his core admonition — that we, as a culture, are taking sex far too seriously to actually derive joy from it. There should be a course in the first grade on love. Illustration from 'This Is Warhol.' Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr. Daniel Libeskind breaks ground on Philippines skyscraper. News: construction is now underway on a 60-storey skyscraper with a segmented pinnacle, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind for Makati, the Philippines.
Daniel Libeskind, who previously completed a family of towers in Singapore, designed the Century Spire to accommodate offices and apartments in Century City – a mixed-use development in the city south-east of Manila. The peak of the building will be broken into three segments, which the architect describes as a crown. All four facades will feature semi-reflective glazing, while the base of the building will taper inwards to make room for a landscaped entrance plaza.
Libeskind said that the project would "make a bold and optimistic statement about the future of the Philippines". The building is set for completion by 2018 and will feature interiors by Armani/Casa – Giorgio Armani's interior design studio. It will offer a mixture of 1-3 bedroom apartments, duplex units and penthouses. Agnes Martin on Art, Happiness, Pride, and Failure: A Rare Vintage Interview with the Reclusive Artist. By Maria Popova “We all have the same inner life. The difference lies in the recognition. The artist has to recognize what it is.” “Her art has the quality of a religious utterance, almost a form of prayer,” a New York critic once remarked of legendary abstract-expressionist painter and reconstructionist Agnes Martin, as known for the transcendent power of her signature minimalist paintings as she is for being an incredibly reclusive, reticent, and media-shy artist, yet remarkably eloquent on the rare occasions she gave an interview, at once poetic and philosophical.
Arguably the best of those was conducted by the prominent music, dance and art critic John Gruen in 1976, when Martin was sixty-four, and is found in Gruen’s The Artist Observed: 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists (public library) — an altogether magnificent out-of-print volume fifteen years in the making, featuring conversations with such creative legends as Saul Steinberg, Francis Bacon, and Roy Lichtenstein.
The 30 Happiest Animals In The World That Will Make You Smile. These 30 animals that look like they’re smiling are bound to warm even the stone-cold jaded hearts among us. Not so fast, however – the scientific jury is still out on whether or not animals can/do actually smile. It’s perfectly reasonable to expect that the smiles we see on these animals are a case of pareidolia – our tendency to see human faces in everything around us. And many animals have different complex visual cues to express their emotions that may preclude the need for smiling. Dogs already communicate with each other by raising their haunches, baring their teeth, changing their postures and raising, lowering or wagging their tales, so it would be reasonable to expect that smiles just aren’t a part of their already complex physical vocabulary.
However, scientists are increasingly warming up to the idea that animals may have a more complex range of emotions and that some of them may even have facial expressions similar to ours. Source: globalanimal.org Source: imgur Source: imgur. How to Write a Logo Rationale - Free Logo Critiques. Sep 15, 2009 / Erik Peterson When presenting logo concepts to a client it is often productive to have written rationales to accompany each concept. This can help you, the designer, clarify your thoughts before getting the concepts in front of your client. The rationales will help your client to better understand the concepts from your point of view (especially if you are not there in person to present the concepts to your client). In turn, this will help your client make an educated decision when picking their final logo. All that effort will also help you to better defend and explain concerns and questions that may arise during the logo revision process.
Here are some topics to consider covering when in your writing rationales. In going through this process you may even see some areas for improvement in your concepts. Symbolism: Clarify and identify the meanings behind the icons you chose to incorporate into the design. The Media Backpack Logo Concept Rationale. 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently. This list has been expanded into the new book, “Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind,” by Carolyn Gregoire and Scott Barry Kaufman. Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways.
Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also change based on situation and context. Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them, and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking process. Neuroscience paints a complicated picture of creativity. And psychologically speaking, creative personality types are difficult to pin down, largely because they’re complex, paradoxical and tend to avoid habit or routine. While there’s no “typical” creative type, there are some tell-tale characteristics and behaviors of highly creative people. They daydream. According to Kaufman and psychologist Rebecca L. They observe everything. Welcome to The Next Web's New Creativity Channel. 24 February '14, 06:34pm Follow Today we’re launching a new section of The Next Web inspired by the convergence of art, technology and design – the Creativity Channel.
Presented in partnership with Shutterstock, the channel will cover apps in fields like photography, video and digital art, and inspire you to be creative in all sorts of new ways. Our coverage of the design world has always proved popular so this is a natural extension of something we know you already enjoy about The Next Web.
To lead the Creativity Channel, we’ve brought on board a new member of the team, Jackie Dove. Based in Oakland, California, Jackie covered the world of photography and video apps with aplomb in her previous roles at Macworld and TechHive so she knows her stuff – please join me in giving her a warm welcome to TNW. You’ll find content on the channel already and there will be fresh inspiration for you every day. . ➤ The Creativity Channel Image credit: Shutterstock.