I am trying to figure out a consistent system for taking notes. I need to take lecture notes, idea notes, and notes on books and articles. I also need to take notes on music, which is much more slippery. Cornell notes aren’t much use to me now because I don’t spend much [...]
Everyday, think as you wake up, ‘today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of [...]
I am completely fascinated by sketchbooks and plan to start keeping one of my own again on a regular basis.
This exhibit features a number of artists’ sketchbooks - not a lot of images on the site but interesting.
Another exhibition: Visual Thinking.
Inside the street artist’s sketchbook.
The sketchbooks of:
Le Corbusier
Leonardo da Vinci (ok, just drawings [...]
I would like to read more of these - I mean, I read tons of articles from small musicology journals, but I’d like to read more literary journals.
A list of the best, from the Guardian.
There is something so lovely and peaceful about ceramic vessels.
Heath ceramics
Mud Australia