video: JSB #20 The Party

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watch 6 hours of book design in 2 mins

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Blessed Assurance

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Happy Birthday Phoebe Knapp. Pardon. What? Who?

Phoebe Knapp. She wrote the tune to "Blessed Assurance" (among more than 500 other hymns). She was born in New York 1839. 

And did you know… one day in 1873, Knapp was having a pipe organ set up in her house when a fellow John Street Methodist Episcopal Church parishioner, a blind woman 20 years older than she was, came over for a visit. Knapp sat down at the piano to play the woman a tune she'd just composed. She asked the older woman what she thought the melody was saying, and the older woman--who's name was Fanny Crosby-- replied "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine."

For the second verse, Crosby wrote: "Perfect submission, perfect delight, / visions of rapture now burst on my sight; / angels descending bring from above / echoes of mercy, whispers of love."

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octopus love story

a cool short (last year, oscar nominated)

an octopus is determined to save the love of his life...

via Oktapodi

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week 19 storytime video: God's Messenger

God's Messenger from Jonathan Michael on Vimeo.
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The Muse and Being on Time

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (such the cool name) said:

"I sit down to work each morning at 9 a.m., and the muse has learnt to be on time."

 I love that. It debunks the preciousness of writing. And makes it a job. One that you just have to show up and do. Reminds me of what Philip Pullman says of writer's block:

"I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?"

 Oops. It's nearly 9 AM. Time to show up at the desk.

burning and light

"what is to give light must endure burning"

- Viktor Frankl

confetti facade

Architect, Jörg Ebers' 3-D business card (aka his house) in Berlin.

It is covered in 300,000 olive-green mosaic tiles. He calls it his "confetti facade": the rooms inside, not its appearance from the outside, determine where he put the windows. how cool.

via NYT

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