Ursula K. Le Guin on Being a Man. By Maria Popova A journey to where the semicolon meets the soul. Who are we when we, to borrow Hannah Arendt’s enduring words, “are together with no one but ourselves”? However much we might exert ourselves on learning to stop letting others define us, the definitions continue to be hurled at us — definitions predicated on who we should be in relation to some concrete or abstract other, some ideal, some benchmark beyond the boundaries of who we already are. One of the most important authors of our time, Ursula K. Le Guin has influenced such celebrated literary icons as Neil Gaiman and Salman Rushdie. Le Guin writes: I am a man. Illustration from 'The Human Body,' 1959. Noting that when she was born (1929), “there actually were only men” — lest we forget, even the twentieth century’s greatest public intellectuals of the female gender used the pronouns “he” to refer to the whole lot of human beings — Le Guin plays with this notion of the universal pronoun: That’s who I am.
Ursula K. 11 Highly Specific Podcasts. I'm a podcast pusher. I can't imagine my commute without them, and if I care about you, I can't imagine your commute without them either. I'm loyal to some major brands in the audio entertainment world, but even if you're not a fan of sports or popular culture, there's probably a podcast out there that's right up your alley. 1. The Pen Addict: Brad Dowdy and Myke Hurley can spend upwards of an hour talking about the humble writing device. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
12 Weapons that Changed Everything. Top: los 50 mejores sitios de Internet. ¿Alguna vez has jugado con la idea de concebir los medios, y en particular los sitios de Internet, como portales a respectivas realidades que a la vez te utilizan para converger y entremezclarse, dando así vida a planos únicos de percepción e interpretación? La intención de publicar esta lista, además de ofrecer a nuestros lectores algunas alternativas que quizás no conozcan en su consumo de información, es rendir homenaje a los sitios que más nos han inspirado, que consideramos más estimulantes y que más placer nos genera su lectura. La información está viva y es un círculo sin centro y sin circunferencia; es una red incorpórea de relaciones y estímulos que transforma nuestra percepción del mundo. Estos sitios, creemos, reflejan un amplio abanico de realidad: algunos cuestionan su propia naturaleza y los modelos rectores, en otros casos son estética y artísticamente notables, y en general son instrumentos para extender las fronteras elásticas de nuestra mente con información novedosa.
14 Essential Cyberpunk Novels. Vladímir Propp. De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Vladímir Yákovlevich Propp (en ruso: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; San Petersburgo, 29 de abril de 1895-Leningrado, 22 de agosto de 1970) fue un antropólogo y lingüista ruso, dedicado al análisis de los componentes básicos de los cuentos populares rusos para identificar sus elementos narrativos irreducibles más simples. Biografía[editar] Vladimir Propp nació el 29 de abril de 1895 en San Petersburgo en una familia rusa de ascendencia alemana. Sus padres, Yakov Philippovich Propp y Anna-Elizaveta Fridrikhovna Beisel, eran ricos campesinos alemanes del Volga de la gobernación de Sarátov. Su Morfología del cuento (Morfológuiya skazki)[1] fue publicada en ruso en 1928; aunque influyó a Claude Lévi-Strauss y Roland Barthes, fue prácticamente ignorada en Occidente hasta que fue traducida al inglés en el año 1958.
Analizó los cuentos populares hasta que encontró una serie de puntos recurrentes que creaban una estructura constante en todas estas narraciones. 33 Awesome Inspirations for Your Dream Home. Each of us probably have an idea about what our individual dream homes would look like. Maybe your dream home would have a hammock … or maybe an indoor slide that leads outside into a pool filled with Jell-O. You can have whatever you want, after all, it’s YOUR dream home. But if you need some inspiration, here are 33 awesome things you might want to include in the house of your fantasies. 1. 2. All aboard! 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Too cool. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Tubular. If you’re wanting a refreshing break from the heat, then hit next page below to see a paradise in the backyard. 16. 17. And POOL table. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.
Just because. 33. Via BoredPanda If I don’t find a way to have a hammock-bed I am literally going to be disappointed for the rest of my life. Join the new ViralNova Life Hacks Page here! The Early Jobs of 24 Famous Writers. 27 of History’s Strangest Inventions. By Maria Popova If you can’t deliver the newspaper on your amphibious bicycle, you can always fax it. “If at first an idea is not absurd,” Albert Einstein famously said, “then there is no hope for it.” Sometimes, however, absurd is just absurd — yet, even so, it’s a fascinating slice of history’s collective direction of curiosity and experimental innovation. After those vintage versions of modern social media and yesteryear’s visions for the future of technology, here come some of history’s most weird and wonderful inventions, from wooden swimwear to spectacles for reading in bed, captured in archival public domain images by Holland’s Nationaal Archief.
One-wheel motorcycle Germany, 1925 Manual dredger Workers operated the so-called bucket dredger with their arms and legs using stepper boards. Bike tyre used as a swimming aid Invented by Italian M. Steam automobile design circa 1845 Amphibious bicycle This land-and-water bike can carry a load of 120 pounds; Paris, 1932 All-terrain car Radio hat. 40 more maps that explain the world.
Maps seemed to be everywhere in 2013, a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world. Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. You might consider this, then, a collection of maps meant to inspire your inner map nerd. I've searched far and wide for maps that can reveal and surprise and inform in ways that the daily headlines might not, with a careful eye for sourcing and detail. I've included a link for more information on just about every one. Enjoy. 1. Data source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, World Bank. Those dots represent people: the brighter the dot, the more people. 2. Click to enlarge. Human beings first left Africa about 60,000 years ago in a series of waves that peopled the globe. 3.
(Wikimedia commons) The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. 4. Click to enlarge. This map shows the Spanish and Portuguese empires at their height. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 27 Lugares increíbles que tienes que visitar antes de morir. 10 Lines From Napoleon's Love Letters That Sound Like Crazy Texts. 11 Bizarre and Dangerous Items Sold by Sears in 1902. The 1902 edition of the Sears, Roebuck catalogue offers items of particular interest and questionable health benefits—everything from the latest fashions to the “surest” cures.
Here are some highlights. 1. Dr. Rose’s French Arsenic Complexion Wafers These poisonous wafers were advertised as being “simply magical” for the complexion, their most striking effects “being brought about by their steady use.” 2. At first glance, a toilet mask doesn’t sound so bad. 3. This toilet accessory looks more or less like an oversized suction cup. 4. This elixir was ingested to kill intestinal parasites—and hopefully not their human host. 5. This herb is advertised as a homeopathic medicine, and while it has a long history of medicinal use, it’s better known by another name: wolfsbane, a known poison and neurotoxin. 6. To be used as an insecticide on crops and animals, this product promises to kill “plant lice, red spiders, scales, and mealy bugs,” among other pests. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. EL FUTURO QUE DEJAMOS ATRÁS – La ciencia ficción de los 70 en 50 películas, 1ª parte: Los avances científicos serán portadores del CAOS | El pájaro burlón.
En general, con sus más y sus menos, el equipo de redacción de El pájaro burlón se ha criado en los 80. Para futuros adictos al cine como hemos acabado siendo, no podemos quejarnos. Pillamos casi el punto de partida de los blockbusters, y digamos las películas de aventuras, de acción y de fantasía, en líneas generales, se hacían enfocadas hacia un público juvenil desde Hollywood, lo cual para nosotros por edad era ideal. Y entonces veíamos esas otras de unos años antes en televisión, sobre androides asesinos en un parque de atracciones, sobre sociedades que eliminan a los suyos por crecer, alienígenas alcohólicos y futuros superpoblados donde tu abuelo era tu merienda y en ocasiones nos hacían sentir muy pequeños, como si esas películas fueran en realidad como un hermano mayor en comparación de esas otras mucho más ligeras con sus rayos láser, naves enfrentadas y sables de luz.
-Androides, extraterrestres y otras criaturas infernales nos llevarán al EXTERMINIO. Pero, ¡tranquilos! 100 Diagrams That Changed the World. Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a “mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web.
It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator. Most of those described here were the culmination of centuries of accumulated knowledge. Most arose from collaboration (and oftentimes in competition) with others. Christianson offers a definition: 5 Timeless Books of Insight on Fear and the Creative Process. By Maria Popova From Monet to Tiger Woods, or why creating rituals and breaking routines don’t have to be conflicting notions. “Creativity is like chasing chickens,” Christoph Niemann once said. But sometimes it can feel like being chased by chickens — giant, angry, menacing chickens. Whether you’re a writer, designer, artist or maker of anything in any medium, you know the creative process can be plagued by fear, often so paralyzing it makes it hard to actually create. Today, we turn to insights on fear and creativity from five favorite books on the creative process and the artist’s way.
Despite our best-argued cases for incremental innovation and creativity via hard work, the myth of the genius and the muse perseveres in how we think about great artists. In the ideal — that is to say, real — artist, fears not only continue to exist, they exist side by side with the desires that complement them, perhaps drive them, certainly feed them. Are you paralyzed with fear? Donating = Loving. 9 Books on Reading and Writing.
By Maria Popova Dancing with the absurdity of life, or what symbolism has to do with the osmosis of trash and treasure. Hardly anything does one’s mental, spiritual, and creative health more good than resolving to read more and write better. Today’s reading list addresses these parallel aspirations. And since the number of books written about reading and writing likely far exceeds the reading capacity of a single human lifetime, this omnibus couldn’t be — shouldn’t be — an exhaustive list.
If anyone can make grammar fun, it’s Maira Kalman — The Elements of Style Illustrated marries Kalman’s signature whimsy with Strunk and White’s indispensable style guide to create an instant classic. The original Elements of Style was published in 1919 in-house at Cornell University for teaching use and reprinted in 1959 to become cultural canon, and Kalman’s inimitable version is one of our 10 favorite masterpieces of graphic nonfiction. On the itch of writing, Lamott banters: On why we read and write:
40 Webcomics You Need to Read. Allow Us To Explain Comics are wonderful, visual ways of getting a story across, and it goes without saying that we at The Mary Sue love them. But as wonderful as they are, grabbing issue after issue can add up. And yet the desire for more comics persists. Luckily there are plenty of creative, engaging, funny, and complex stories and gag strips out there for those of us who need our dose of sequential art. Webcomics allow artists and writers to take advantage of almost unlimited possibilities and showcase truly innovative storytelling, plus they come from the minds and hands of people who simply love to create.
Of course, this list could never be a comprehensive overview of every comic on the internet, or even every quality comic on the internet, but hopefully you come away with a new fandom to call your very own. (pictured: Noelle Stevenson‘s Nimona) 8 Tips For Creating Great Stories From George R.R. Martin, Junot Diaz, And Other Top Storytellers.
What the hell is a Story Lizard? In Wonderbook: The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Abrams Books, October 15), Story Lizards join Prologue Fish and other infographic helpmates designed to banish dry textual analysis in favor of a kicking, screaming, slithering approach to storytelling creativity. Author Jeff Vandermeer, a three-time Fantasy World Award-winning novelist who co-directs the Shared Worlds teen writing camp, says "The way we're taught to analyze fiction is to break down and do a kind of autopsy. But I think writers need to be more like naturalists or zoologists when they study story because then you're looking at how all the elements fit together. " Enter the Story Lizard, above, illustrated by Jeremy Zerfoss.
As Vandermeer tells Co.Create, "A recurring thing in Wonderbook is to think of stories as being more like living creatures than machines. " Neil Gaiman. Read on for a sampling of Wonderbook tips about how to craft mind-blowing stories. Tell, don't show Name Wisely. 100 Mejores Cuentos de la Literatura Universal. The-history-of-scifi-in-a-single-chart-imgur.jpg (imagen JPEG, 3260 × 1886 píxeles) - Escalado (39%) Science Fiction And Fantasy Finalists.
The 10 best movies about design | Industry insight. Need some design inspiration this holiday season? Well, rather than tune into the latest by-the-numbers action film or romcom, why not take a look at some of the many awesome design documentaries? There’s nothing better than seeing what some of the great designers have done to help boost your creative ideas and spur you on.
So in no particular order, here’s a rundown of 10 of the best design documentaries covering everything from typography to street art. 01. Why Man Creates Seminal artist Saul Bass and Mayo Simon created animated short documentary Why Man Creates in 1968. 02. American director Gary Hustwit celebrates 50 years of the typeface with a feature-length documentary focusing on the wider conversation about how type affects our culture. 03. Directed by Mu-Ming Tsai, Design and Thinking examines how design can influence the world of business and social change and calls on creative minds to work together to change the world. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. Words: Natalie Brandweiner. The 10 Most Confusing Movies of All Time. 13 Independent Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies You Should Watch. Stephen Hawking's aliens | Stephen Hawking's aliens | Photo Galleries and News Photos | News Pictures and Photos. Las 250 mejores películas de la historia y un plano de metro, la imagen de la semana.
Las 10 mejores películas jamás filmadas según Stanley Kubrick. Animación. 10 formas de hacer animación Nº 21. 21 Great Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Films You Need To Watch. The 30 Greatest Cult Movies Of All Time. Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life. Surrealist techniques. 25 de los paisajes más surrealistas en la Tierra. A hombros de gigantes: 5 matemáticos que construyeron el mundo.