candles holders

"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative..."

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:23:00 -0500

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

- Ira Glass

HuffPo wins the award for most crass article on Amy Winehouse's demise: "Amy Winehouse's Untimely Death Is a Wake Up Call for Small Business Owners"

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:59 -0500

HuffPo wins the award for most crass article on Amy Winehouse's demise: "Amy Winehouse's Untimely Death Is a Wake Up Call for Small Business Owners":

shortformblog:

Dear Tricia Fox: Don’t use a person’s death to offer up small-business-friendly advice like this: “But whether you are a pop star, a plumber or a business consultant, the same rules still apply: you are the product. And if that’s the case, you are going to need to take really good care for yourself if you want your business to succeed.” It’s crass SEO-hoarding. BAD HuffPo.

anyadarling: hahaha oh wow, i actually know this girl. she...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:58 -0500

anyadarling:

hahaha oh wow, i actually know this girl. she comes to the hair salon i used to work at.

andrew: staff: Tumblr just broke into the Top 100! Please...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:53 -0500

andrew:

staff:

Tumblr just broke into the Top 100!

Please welcome our new Director of Scaling and Sysops.

Watching the community grow so quickly over the past few months has been humbling and inspiring. It’s also presented huge new scaling challenges that have quickly become a full-time job.

So we’re psyched to be welcoming Andrew Terng to the team to make sure Tumblr is fast and stable while we get everyone in the world blogging. Andrew just moved back to NYC from California where he had been scaling Delicious at Yahoo for the past two years. Welcome, Andrew!

This is an amazing opportunity you guys have given us and we’re working hard to make sure your experience here only gets better. :)

woohoo!

maxsilvestri: “This week on 2 Man Chain Gang, Rich and Max are...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:52 -0500

maxsilvestri:

“This week on 2 Man Chain Gang, Rich and Max are eatin’ good in the neighborhood at Brooklyn’s Applebee’s. Five birthday songs, a couple of fake raccoons, some hopping and grinding, and 7,000 calories later, they deem it authentically inauthentic. Take a look.”

Someone pooped at the bar!

[Eater NY]

skullrot: Still enjoying jokes about my...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:52 -0500

skullrot:

Still enjoying jokes about my work…

thedailywhat:

lunchbreath.

meatlogmountain: Another entry for our Fan-Art contest. This...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:50 -0500

meatlogmountain:

Another entry for our Fan-Art contest. This time from Shirobear with cute chibi versions of some of our guys.

Reminder!

Last days to get your fan-art in for our fan-art contest. Also the last days to get in your “color-a-cock” entries too :3. All entries must be submitted before Midnight PST on Saturday the 9th.

More info HERE

lookatthisfrakkinggeekster: Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:49 -0500

lookatthisfrakkinggeekster:

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

walkwhilereading: “That is part of the beauty of all...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:49 -0500

walkwhilereading:

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

[photo]

too-drunk-to-dream: Talking to the MoonTryin’ to get to YouIn...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:47 -0500

too-drunk-to-dream:

Talking to the Moon
Tryin’ to get to You
In hopes you’re on
the other side
Talking to me too
Or am I a fool
who sits alone
Talking to the moon

:(

Talking to the Moon | Bruno Mars

moneyisnotimportant: Did you know that there is an owl on every...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:47 -0500

moneyisnotimportant:

Did you know that there is an owl on every US dollar?

seanbonner: Yo dawg, you saw this coming…

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:45 -0500

seanbonner:

Yo dawg, you saw this coming…

rebeldog: 15 june 2011, taking a pleasant walk outside of the...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:44 -0500

rebeldog:

15 june 2011,

taking a pleasant walk outside of the Greek Parliament at Syntagma square

orcrist: If I had my own tribe, it would look like this

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:43 -0500

orcrist:

If I had my own tribe, it would look like this

sunfoundation: U.S. Education vs. The World. From...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:42 -0500

sunfoundation:

U.S. Education vs. The World. From MAT@USC:

We’ve put together this infographic that compares the United States’ education spend and performance versus eleven countries. The U.S. is the clear leader in total annual spending, but ranks 9th in Science performance and 10th in Math.

The Engineers are Coming

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:41 -0500

The Engineers are Coming:

nycdigital:

Very exciting: Over 27 prestigious institutions in the running to lead NYC’s next engineering school.

nycedc:

In December, Mayor Bloomberg issued a challenge to help diversify the City’s economy and boost the growing technology sector by developing a new applied science and engineering research campus in New York City. This week, we formally received 18 proposals from 27 academic institutions around the world to develop the new applied sciences campus.

The institutions that submitted the responses are:

Åbo Akadmi University, Finland

Amity University, India

Carnegie Mellon University with Steiner Studios

Cornell University

Columbia University and the City University of New York

The Cooper Union

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

New York University, Carnegie Mellon, the City University of New York, the University of Toronto, and IBM

The New York Genome Center, with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, Rockefeller University, and the Jackson Laboratory

Purdue University

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Stanford University

The Stevens Institute of Technology

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

The University of Chicago

The University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Governor’s Island, one of the possible sites for the new applied sciences campus.

my-esl-student: Long, long time ago, people had lived under the...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:40 -0500

my-esl-student:

Long, long time ago, people had lived under the sea. That time, people didn’t need to worry about rain, but sometimes sharks come down. The weather forecast had said that like “Fine, later, occasionally sharks.”

theg33k: I find this picture genuinely touching.

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:39 -0500

theg33k:

I find this picture genuinely touching.

larbestchen: -hey there, handsome shark

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:38 -0500

larbestchen:

-hey there, handsome shark

whatswithtodaytoday: thedailywhat: Brock Davis: “bird and...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:22:37 -0500

whatswithtodaytoday:

thedailywhat:

Brock Davis: “bird and dog”

Charles Schulz and Norman Rockwell walk into a bar…

[more.]

i could not love this more.

(via thedailywhat)