“My dream is to have people working on useless projects. These have the germ of new concepts.”
—Charles Eames (via explore-blog)
May 2013
8 posts
April 2013
27 posts
“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via wethinkwedream)
“Now that my house has burned down, I have a better view of the sky.”
—Zen Saying (via wethinkwedream)
“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
—Woody Allen (via art-and-fury)
“Yet, moving back to the interaction with elevator interior design elements, it was noticed that interaction went hand-in-hand with social organisation. As a result of 30 elevator journeys (15 in each building) a clear social order could be seen regarding where people positioned themselves inside the elevators and how they interacted with the design features, such as mirrors and monitors. More senior men in particular seemed to direct themselves towards the back of the elevator cabins. In front of them were younger men, and in front of them were women of all ages. Men watched the monitors, looked in the side mirrors (in one building) to see themselves, and in the door mirrors (of the other building) to also watch others. Women would watch the monitors and avoid eye contact with other users (unless in conversation) and the mirrors. It was only when the women travelled with other women, and just a few at that, that women elevator users would utilise the mirrors. One interviewee even mentioned that she only looked in the mirrors when there was no one else in the elevator.”
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An ethnographic study of elevator behavior. Pair with the psychology of elevator groupthink.
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via audreylostinparis)
“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
—Sylvia Plath (via bareandbleached)
March 2013
107 posts
“…nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via monpetitsoulierrr)
