one year in a Virginia garden
February 23, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.
BLOOM
March 26, 2014 — Comments are off for this post.
Creative Routines
If you like Creative Routines you will love Info We Trust—the book!
"We all have the same 24 hours that Beyoncé has" and its various iterations took the web by storm in late 2013 as the megastar became the figurehead of not only having it all, but being able to somehow do it all too.
How do creatives - composers, painters, writers, scientists, philosophers - find the time to produce their opus? Mason Currey investigated the rigid Daily Rituals that hundreds of creatives practiced in order to carve out time, every day, to work their Read more
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Tags: Balzac, Beethoven, Benjamin Franklin, Beyoncé, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Daily Rituals, data adventure, featured, Flaubert, Freud, Gustave Flaubert, history, Immanuel Kant, infographic, John Milton, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Maya Angelou, Mozart, Sigmund Freud, Tchaikovsky, Thomas Mann, Victor Hugo, W.H. Auden
December 31, 2013 — Comments are off for this post.
Disney Characters
Steve Jobs counseled Disney CEO Bob Iger to think in terms of brand deposits and brand withdrawals. Since 1937's Snow White, enduring film characters have been Disney's biggest brand deposits, and their success is most fantastically expressed with a dedicated theme park attraction in Florida at Walt Disney World. Track our favorite magic-maker's Characters by the Numbers:
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Story Points
Several plot points about Disney's evolution can be inferred from Read more
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October 1, 2013 — Comments are off for this post.
Navigating MIT Course 15
Perhaps it was the chemistry icons of Breaking Bad that drove me to organize the classes of MIT's Course 15 into a handy table. Or maybe it was just reflection on the incredibly knowledge-rich environment of MIT Sloan. For students still taking classes, alumni combing through old notes, and the public digging through MIT's fabulous open courseware (where over 170 management titles are available to all for free), navigate your way though the finest graduate business curriculum around using the Periodic Table of Course 15:
MIT and class names
For the unfamiliar, numbers rule at MIT, and classes are no exception. Read more
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August 28, 2013 — Comments are off for this post.
Prototyping with Vermeer
Imagine seeing the entire catalogue raisonné of an artist at once. What might you learn about the artist's life and painting - favored motifs, density of projects, size of pieces? What if Picasso's blue period could be pictured against the kaleidoscope of his surrounding other work?
Any quest requires the development of special skills. I am currently exploring approaches for visualizing an artist's entire body of work. Before tackling some of the big guys who produced hundreds of works, I am experimenting with the paintings of Johannes Vermeer - my Dutch guinea pig. His body of 34 accepted paintings is the right size to quickly produce a neat little infographic:
Even this small gallery reveals the repeated arrangements of Vermeer's subjects in the rooms of his house, evidenced by the common black and white floor and light pouring through from the window on the left side of his paintings. This Vermeer cartoon is a great start to my investigation of catalogue raisonnés, and I encourage Read more
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