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Pass me my crystal ball…
In reality, it is only the future that really matters when it comes to getting a mortgage.
Today's Irish Times carries an article on the availability of mortgages in Ireland. Apparently they do exist - but only if you can peer into the future, prove you will retain your own job and more to the point can demonstrate that your employer will continue to be solvent also. This kind of rhetoric deeply frustrates me. How successful have governments and banks been ...
Weekly Twitter Round Up
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Amanda draws pictures…
Amanda Lyons draws pictures. Not just regular pictures (although I'm sure she does that as well), but pictures that capture the essence of the people she's with. I know because she drew some pictures while we were having coffee as she lured me into talking about what brought me to NYC and what I was doing here and what I want to achieve in the future. We only scratched the surface but her visual representation of our conversation stopped me ...
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A secret book shop in New York City
This gorgeous video from Andrew David Watson about Michael Seidenberg and the story of how his bookshop (Brazenhead Books) had to move due to the high cost of real estate - not to a cheaper neighbourhood - but into his home is both poignant and inspirational. Made with tenderness and care, the video highlight's Seidenberg's love of books and the career he has had for most of his life and then asks the question (without asking the question) - what happens when the ...
Weekly Twitter Round up
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the difference between collecting curating
I enjoyed this post from Frank Chimero on the difference between collecting and curating. Frank summarises many responses to his tweeted question
Thinking about collecting vs. curating, and how the internet is muddying the line between the two.
as
Collection is additive. Curation is subtractive. Collecting is for yourself, curating is for others.
and expands the thought to
I think the thing that separates the two is intent, not in the size of the pool of stuff or in the presence of an audience, but rather ...
Weekly twitter round up
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On failure, disappointment and creativity
Conan O'Brien gives the commencement speech at Dartmouth College (2011) and in the process talks about his experience of disappointment. In between the humourous asides (even the Secret Service guys in the background are laughing from time to time) he talks about his personal failures and encourages the graduating students to learn from the inevitable disappointing episodes that life will generate. The funny stuff goes up to about 16 minutes, the serious stuff (still funny!) starts after that.
It is ...
The Chooky Dancers, assumptions & stereotypes
I came across the Chooky Dancers via a colleague at an event in Melbourne recently. When words won't do the job we want them to, the arts step up to challenge us about uncomfortable stereotypes and assumptions. Watch this short clip and then ask yourself if the arts can provide a different way of addressing taken-for-granted ways of doing things around here....
