innovactors & creativity
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. -Ralph W. Emerson Theo Jansen is one of those people I call InnovActors - individuals who are taking ostensibly different things and bringing them together to make something more powerful, something completely authentic. InnovActors are focused on DOING, not just dreaming. InnovActors are brave thinkers,...
playtime
When the child has grown up and has ceased to play, and after he has been laboring for decades to envisage the realities of life with proper seriousness, he may one day find himself in a mental situation which once more undoes the contrast between play and reality. As an adult he can look back...
best of london: museums
The British Museum The British Museum houses a bountiful lot of Greek artifacts including the Nereid tomb (below) was the first example in architecture of a tomb-temple, a building that served both functions. It was dedicated to the water god, Nerus. The Museum also owns numerous pieces from the Greek Parthenon, something that infuriates the...
