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1/11 Art: Ai Wei Wei’s installation ‘he xie’
Ai Wei Wei’s ground-bound installation ‘he xie’ collects the forms of hundreds porcelain crabs situated in a heap in the main exhibition space. The work is saturated in social symbolism; ‘he xie’ translates to ‘river crab’ but sounds very similar to the mandarin word meaning ‘harmonization’, the state’s euphemism suggesting censorship. The political double meaning […]
Opportunities abound in bad times as well as good times. In fact, the opportunities are often greater when the conventional wisdom is that everything is going into the toilet.
~ Tim Ferriss, The Four Hour Work Week
Patience
“Patience is the key to joy.” ~ Rumi Ahhhh… patience. This is a virtue I am developing. Patiently, of course. 🙂 I have this thought from Epictetus on my whiteboard whenever I used to feel my patience wane: “If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it […]
Duct Tape Surfing
Duct Tape Surfing from Mark Tipple on Vimeo.