/canon
Away from the busy flow of feeds - this is the STOCK, the good stuff. The links that have shaped my thinking that I return to often. If you see anything related to these themes please send the my way! [email protected]
Themes:
People:
Themes
Parenting
As a parent to a 2.5 year old daughter (as of late 2018...) the concept of both being a parent and parenting are ever present and important for me:
Key links:
Digital Art & Creativity
Creativity generally fascinates me, obviously, but the idea of digital creativity and digital art in particular is a thread I end up pulling on again and again.
Key links:
BERG
https://vimeo.com/121072011
People
Frank Chimero
Writer, designer, thinker, independent. I love Frank's writing and how deeply he thinks about the digital systems we inhabit. Oh and of course a great aesthetic.
Key links:
Robin Sloan
Media inventor. Author. Purveyor of fine olive oil. Essential. Key links:
Craig Mod
Writer. Walker. Book-thinker. Key links:
Venkatesh Rao
Independent consultant. Essay writer. Thinker. Creater of Ribbonfarm. Key links:
Sebastian Marshall
http://sebastianmarshall.com/the-million-dollar-question
Derek Sivers
https://sivers.org/io
Bret Victor
http://worrydream.com/#!/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable
Ze Frank
A show with ze frank
Deb Chachra
Why I'm not a maker
Allison Parrish
http://static.decontextualize.com/bots-performative-critique.pdf
https://aaronland.info/
The value in living in meatspace and slowing down
https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f59bbb
The uses of the liberal arts
http://www.ljhammond.com/essay.htm
http://harpers.org/archive/1997/09/ii-as-a-weapon-in-the-hands-of-the-restless-poor/
Digital art & Creativity
https://medium.com/@zachlieberman/daily-sketches-2016-28586d8f008e
https://medium.com/@lynn_72328/cocos-memory-palace-a-strange-fantasia-28b48264612f
http://barrow.matthewsheret.com/
http://internet-atlas.net/
Independents
http://counterpractice.tumblr.com/
Digital art
Lifewinning
Phil Stearns
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/athletic-aesthetics/
Glitch art
http://amodern.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2010_Original_Rosa-Menkman-Glitch-Studies-Manifesto.pdf
Architecture
http://etc.ofthiswearesure.com/2012/05/brute-force-architecture/
Archigram
Superstudio
https://io9.gizmodo.com/5362912/the-city-is-a-battlesuit-for-surviving-the-future
Science Fiction
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/alan-bean-plus-four
https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/
Near Futures
https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-going-to-hit-us-like-a-human-driven-truck-b8507d9c5961#.mpb0xhvt4
Launching work on the internet (postindustrial industry)
postindustrialdesign.school
entrpeneurial design syllabus
Comedy:
Daniel Kitson
Ethan Lipton: https://vimeo.com/40511520
Mathematics
Godel Escher Bach
Logicomix
Galilleos Letters
Flatland
Fermats last theorem
Uncle Petros goldbach conjecture
A mathematicians apology
(Also I have a symmetrical group named after me!)
Online learning courses
http://rwet.decontextualize.com/
http://printedweb.org/#Syllabi and workshops
Making making easier
Google Docs
Glitch
Appengine
Games?
The glass bead game
Books
Cannery Row
Tortilla flat
Home is the sailor
All the pretty horses
Italo Calvino
Victoria
Iain M Banks
China Meiville
Flowers for algernon
Handmaiden's tail
Nicholson Baker
Micahel Chabon
Raymond Chandler
Desolation Angels
Mother night
The gangster we are looking for
The size of thoughts
Films
Jodbrodskys Dune
Deep Water
Man on wire
Buffalo 66
2046
Chungking Express
The Station Agent
Short term 12
The Apartment
Tears of the black tiger
Music
Bonobo
Nightmares on wax
Fragile State
Keith Jarrett
Aaron Goldberg
Frightened Rabbit
Susumu Yokota
Jimmy Luxury
Kind of blue
My mixes
Drumroll (a blog roll for music...):
Noonpacific
NPR first listen
https://www.magicalmysterymix.com/
Streams & aggregators:
Poetry
>But the sea
which no one tends
is also a garden
[Asphodel, That Greeny Flower by William Carlos Williams](http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/asphodel-greeny-flower-excerpt)
--
>First, The fish needs to say, “Something ain’t right about this Camel ride – And I’m Feeling so damn Thirsty.”
Hafiz
--
>And we all say: OH!
Well I never!
Was there ever
A Cat so clever
As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!
[Mr Mistophelees by TS Eliot](http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/t__s__eliot/poems/15147)
--
>So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning.
[The Four Quartets by TS Eliot](http://www.coldbacon.com/poems/fq.html)
--
>In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you
Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.
Nizar Qabbani
--
>But after a time allowed for it to swim,
Instead of proving human when it neared
And someone else additional to him,
As a great buck it powerfully appeared,
Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,
And landed pouring like a waterfall,
And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread,
And forced the underbrush--and that was all.
[The Most of It by Robert Frost](http://genius.com/Robert-frost-the-most-of-it-annotated)
--
>We are, I am, you are
by cowardice or courage
the one who find our way
back to this scene
carrying a knife, a camera
a book of myths
in which
our names do not appear.
[Diving into the wreck by Adrienne Rich](http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/diving-wreck)
Inspired by http://brendanschlagel.com/canon/