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The equivalent Japanese philosophy to the Scandinavian hygge is wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi is notoriously difficult to define, much like the concept of hygge. Domino here calls it “the acceptance of transience and imperfections as a beautiful attribute, not a flaw.”

Taking inspiration from this, there’s an emphasis on materials that patina over time: oxidized copper, aged wood, clay, and linen. Where in the hygge aesthetic the emphasis is on objets petits a, b, and c; wabi-sabi focuses on the negative space of a room: what it is that’s not there.

What’s meant by interior design is organizing and designing your own environment. We all make choices, and there are many correct choices. From wabi-sabi philosophy we can draw the inference that it’s not making the correct choice that matters, it’s the act of making a choice at all.

#japanese minimalism #wabi-sabi #interior design

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siouxsie-by-kate-garner

Siouxise Sioux

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Sunrise above the city. Mandalay, Tsukigase Nara,

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/features/photography/sunset-sunrise-golden-hour-light/

#sunrise #writing inspiration

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Country road outside Cooperstown NY

Src: http://www.visitingcooperstown.com/gallery58.html

#cooperstown #writing inspiration #rural

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#Corvus #gienah #alchiba #algorab #minkar #kraz

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Female staffers adopted a meeting strategy they called “amplification”: When a woman made a key point, other women would repeat it, giving credit to its author. This forced the men in the room to recognize the contribution — and denied them the chance to claim the idea as their own. “We just started doing it, and made a purpose of doing it. It was an everyday thing,” said one former Obama aide who requested anonymity to speak frankly. Obama noticed, she and others said, and began calling more often on women and junior aides.

Here’s How Obama’s Female Staffers Made Their Voices Heard (via styro)

If you’re wondering what amplification looks like it really is as simple as listening to a person’s point and then saying “Yes I really agree with (this person’s name) that (the point they made) and I think that (build on point)”

So for example, “Yes I agree with the female staffers that amplification is an effective process and I’ve seen great results from similar techniques used by my own colleagues”

Support, Credit, Reinforce. It’s simple and effective and it really does work.

(via thebaconsandwichofregret)

#amplification #every day things

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Arthropoda

The premiere of a video that is a minimalistic dream.

Interview by Anne T. Donahue.

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A adventure’s beginning

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https://www.wordseye.com/gallery/users/stevium

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Takashi Yasumura, from the series ‘Nature Tracing’, 2003

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Monster by Checanty

#beyond what is visible

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1.30 by Anne Mortensen

#the mystery of night

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I’m pleased to announce that I am working on a photobook with the amazingly talented Manuela Garcia and the kickstarter is officially live.

Please CLICK HERE to watch our video and find out how you can get some cool stuff.

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Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know each bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are. Then with your eyes that wearily scarce lift themselves from the worn-out door-stone slowly you raise a shadowy black tree and fix it on the sky: slender, alone And you have made the world (and it shall grow and ripen as a word, unspoken, still). When you have grasped its meaning with your will, then tenderly your eyes will let it go... . Wer du auch seist: Am Abend tritt hinaus aus deiner Stube, drin du alles weisst; als letztes vor der Ferne liegt dein Haus: Wer du auch seist. Mit deinen Augen, welche mude kaum von der verbrauchten Schwelle sich befrein, hebst du ganz langsam einen schwarzen Baum und stellst ihn vor den Himmel: schlank, allein. Und hast die Velt gemacht. Und sie ist gross und wie ein Wort, das noch im Schweigen reift. Und wie dein Wille ihren Sinn begreift, lassen sie deine AUgen zartlich los...

Initiation / Eingang by Rilke

#rilke #leave your room #meaning #german

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The entire Book of Kells is now viewable online! 

Thank you to Trinity College in Dublin, for what must have been a huge amount of work. 

#the book of kells #illuminated manuscript