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"For each age is a dream that is dying/Or one that is coming to birth." ('Ode,' Arthur O'Shaugnessy)
The Three Ways to Get Better at Something
There’s three ways to get better at something, and by something I mean any kind of work, art, or skill, anything from drawing to math to football to making friends. Three ways: Study. Instruction. Reflection. Study is reading books about the subject or watching videos. Instruction is somebody teaching you, imparting their knowledge in some […]
Posted in: Life, Philosophy
Let’s All Live Together
March 20, 2013
I love me some predictions for the future, especially ones like these predictions about future microbe science. While clearly not yet supported by any hard science, predictions like these seem to be such logical extrapolations of what we know now, that I’ll have a hard time not thinking of these as established facts already. One […]
Posted in: Future and Technology, Life
Will Your Children Get Mind-Controlled Mechas For Christmas?
March 4, 2013
In light of some recent developments – artificial limbs that the user can ‘feel,’ and motherf***ing RATS LINKING TO EACH OTHER’S BRAINS - I thought I’d repost this rhapsody on our human-robot future, that I originally wrote for These Gentlemen in 2009. Will Your Future Children Get Giant Mechas For Christmas? (That They Control With […]
Posted in: Future and Technology
Making Less Art Leads to More Art
February 25, 2013
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about focus in artmaking. More and more, it seems to me that in order to make great art – of whatever kind – you have to achieve a balance in side projects and distractions. A lot of the great achievers I read about – artists, scientists, whoever – seem […]
babelwright Year One Retrospective
February 22, 2013
WordPress helpfully reminded me that my blog turned one year old on February 16, so for easy-clickin’ purposes here’s a little roundup of the stuff I wrote and the people who came by. Thanks for reading. NUMBERS I wrote almost a hundred posts within that year – 99, to be exact. The blog got 6,404 […]
Posted in: Writing
April 5, 2013
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