Sir Ken Robinson - Do schools kill creativity? Still the best TED talk ever.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, a lovely homage to books from Moonbot Studios, dubbed “Pixar for the iPad age.” Best thing since Spike Jonze and Olympia LeTan’s cut-paper animated love story for book-lovers. (Source, via.)
Fitzgerald’s handwritten manuscript of The Great Gatsby (via)
The Blue Ocean in RED by Howard Hall (watch it full screen)
Ten days to go…
Good work tends to happen only at the end of day: when the fear of accomplishing nothing finally exceeds fear of doing it badly.Alain de Botton
Clay Shirky - Defend our freedom to share (or why PIPA/SOPA is a bad idea)
Big News
It crosses every writer’s mind at some point: what would it be like to be picked for the Indie Next list? Or B&N Recommends? Happily, I’m about to find out.
A fun promotional video for Defending Jacob produced by Random House.
Boston’s old West End under demolition, ca. 1958-60.
Architecture critic Robert Campbell has a nice essay in today’s Boston Globe asking “What makes the memory of this neighborhood so durable? Why do the people, half a century later, still feel that they are members of it?” (Photos: Boston Globe.)
Copley Square from the roof of the Boston Public Library, ca. 1910 (Boston Public Library, via Park & Tremont)
(Source: marcelagw)
