Home | Mail Online Austin Kleon on 10 Things Every Creator Should Remember But We Often Forget by Maria Popova What T.S. Eliot has to do with genetics and the optimal investment theory for your intellectual life. Much has been said about the secrets of creativity and where good ideas come from, but most of that wisdom can be lost on young minds just dipping their toes in the vast and tumultuous ocean of self-initiated creation. Some time ago, artist and writer Austin Kleon — one of my favorite thinkers, a keen observer of and participant in the creative economy of the digital age — was invited to give a talk to students, the backbone for which was a list of 10 things he wished he’d heard as a young creator: So widely did the talk resonate that Kleon decided to deepen and enrich its message in Steal Like an Artist — an intelligent and articulate manifesto for the era of combinatorial creativity and remix culture that’s part 344 Questions, part Everything is a Remix, part The Gift, at once borrowed and entirely original. The book opens with a timeless T.S. Donating = Loving
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2013 CSS Wishlist I'm pretty happy with CSS. I know it's common to complain about CSS and how it was never meant to build web pages like we do now and it's ill-suited to many tasks and yadda yadda. But I dunno. As Hakim says: Considering CSS was made to style text documents, it's pretty impressive what we can do with it today.— Hakim El Hattab (@hakimel) January 24, 2013 So what does 2013 hold for CSS? Honestly, I trust Tab's own instincts on how CSS needs to be evolved more than my own since he's so involved in it and has a mind for systems. 1. For instance, select a blockquote if it contains a paragraph. blockquote::contains("p") { } I feel like this comes up all the time and it seems weird it's not possible. 2. Content, meaning literally text content whether it's in another element or not. h1::match-string("coyier") { } I feel like I should be able to target elements if they contain my name if I want to. 3. As in: .speech-bubble::before(2) { } As we've discussed here, it's a good idea. 4. 5. 6. Share On
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