culture
"chindōgu" 珍道具 : the Japanese art of creating gadgets that are not exactly useful, but are not exactly useless
Wonders | Japanese, vocab, art, gadgets, culture
Follow Your CuriosityGet Out
(written by Jordan Peele)
Highly Recommended! | mystery, film, thriller, horror, culture, Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Jordan Peele, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, Stephen Root, LilRel Howery
Follow Your Curiosity"We turn to writers at times of change. If, as a society, we are future shocked and information overloaded, who better than genre writers to help us navigate through?"
— Dev Agarwal
for Creatives | artists, writing, culture, genre, value the art, Dev Agarwal
"Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway."
— Stephen King
for Creatives | reading, create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, culture, Stephen King, the creative life
"The problem is that America's record of translations is worse than any other western country. Fewer than two percent of books published in America in a given year were written in a language other than English. Fewer than two percent! And some of those are textbooks. If you come down to literature, it's a fraction of one percent. And so it's very hard for American readers to even know about he work because that work is not translated or published in their language. In England, it's not great either. About five percent. But in places in Western Europe, like in France, it's twenty-five percent and in Germany, it's more than thirty percent. And so writers are able to be heard in those languages and readers are able to hear them."
— Salman Rushdie
for Creatives | reading, books, language, culture, reaching your audience, publishing, value the art, Salman Rushdie, American
"I think everyone should sing and that everyone should write. Like reading, these should be broadly accepted as social practices and not as fine arts."
— Roy Peter Clark
for Creatives | reading, creativity, writing, culture, singing, Roy Peter Clark
"Kids shouldn't grow up thinking that the only thing of any importance is earning money. They should be learning about culture, not business."
— Steve Coogan
for Creatives | culture, Steve Coogan, artists must EXPERIENCE, value the art
"We did lose some shops who only want to carry American-made goods, but we really don't view the world like that. We feel more like citizens of the world, and we're wary of nationalist leanings. It has made our brand stronger, improving the quality, but also providing a huge well of inspiration; the colors, textiles, and techniques we've learned in India have expanded our vocabulary greatly."
— Samantha Pleet
for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, culture, artists must EXPERIENCE, creative freedom, never stop LEARNING, Samantha Pleet, fashion design, design
"I know, if you're a writer, you're constantly asked to take positions. So don't do it without doing your homework."
— Salman Rushdie
for Creatives | writing, culture, artist's message, Salman Rushdie, never stop LEARNING
"While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all."
— Ray Bradbury
for Creatives | art, artists, culture, Ray Bradbury, value the art
"With its never-ending stream of reboots and sequels, modern culture has heightened the ideal that artists have a duty to capitalize on success."
— Joel Fishbane
for Creatives | artists, the successful artist, writing, culture, reaching your audience, KEEP CREATING, filmmaking, Joel Fishbane
"It's not one-to-one: you can't say that a literate society has no criminality. But there are very real correlations."
— Neil Gaiman
for Creatives | reading, Neil Gaiman, culture, value the art
"Give everyone an equal chance in life by helping people become confident and enthusiastic readers."
— Neil Gaiman (photo by author Emily Jiang)
for Creatives | reading, Neil Gaiman, culture, value the art, Emily Jiang
Follow Your Curiosity"Our social moorings aren't the only things that restrain our creative impulses. We are also limited by false aesthetics: those notions that we have developed in schools and libraries, and from listening to critics that adhere to some misplaced notion of a literary canon."
— Walter Mosley
for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, writing, culture, feedback/criticism/rejection, creative freedom, libraries, Walter Mosley, break the rules, formal arts education, TAKE RISKS
"Ten years ago a friend loaned me Parable of the Sower and it completely changed my life. It caused me to view art, sci-fi, and literature in completely new ways. I was very moved by the way Butler was able to seamlessly weave in heavy subject matters as race, gender, and class without ever compromising the integrity of the sci-fi."
— Paul Lewin
for Creatives | reading, books, artist integrity, art, sci-fi, writing, culture, value the art, Octavia E. Butler, Paul Lewin
Follow Your Curiosity"I don't think that we can minimize the value of what happens when we normalize, through entertainment, other cultures and orientations."
— John Ridley
for Creatives | characters, culture, filmmaking, artist's message, value the art, John Ridley
"The further you get into a book—the longer you live with a character—the more you realize that nobody's regular, nobody's average. Everyone's life is incredibly complex."
— Stewart O'Nan
for Creatives | reading, books, characters, culture, Stewart O'Nan
"We don't own [language]. We walk around pretending like we do. We give it order and we grab it and control it and pretend that that's meaning, but it's an arbitrary, free-floating sign system, which means any other group of people could grab it differently and order it differently and make a different meaning. It's like the ocean in that way. You can't grab the ocean."
— Lidia Yuknavitch
for Creatives | art, language, writing, culture, Lidia Yuknavitch
"Punctuation rule enforcement in our culture is blatant. A Facebook post (from Grammarly.com) on August 23, 2014 reads: 'I don't judge people based on race, creed, color, or gender. I judge people based on spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure."
— Natasha Sajé
for Creatives | language, writing, culture, punctuation, Natasha Sajé
"I find the culture silences—places people don't want to talk—and I build in them, I work in them. ... Because that's what an artist does. ... An artist points their finger in directions that not everyone wants to look."
— Junot Díaz
for Creatives | artist integrity, artists, culture, value the art, Junot Díaz
"The Americans ... tend not to embrace noble failure quite so much in their comedy. As far as Americans are concerned, you either win or you lose. Our ability [as Britons] to laugh at ourselves is to be celebrated."
— Steve Coogan
for Creatives | British, comedy, culture, Steve Coogan, comedy writing
for Creatives | books, characters, suspension of disbelief, creative process, create for YOURSELF, creating isn't easy, vocab, sci-fi, fantasy, novel writing, nonfiction, language, the successful artist, writing, culture, reaching your audience, KEEP CREATING, artist's voice, editing, storytelling, ideas, genre, the creative life, never stop LEARNING, David Gerrold
Follow Your Curiosity"America is a cinematic culture. As a people, we are familiar with the conventions of film, perhaps more so than those of fiction."
— Todd James Pierce
Japan
Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Highly Recommended! | books, Japanese, nonfiction, culture
Follow Your CuriosityWabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
(written by Leonard Koren)
Highly Recommended! | books, wabi-sabi, Japanese, art, nonfiction, Leonard Koren, culture
Follow Your Curiosity"oishii" おいしい : an enjoyable eating experience
Wonders | Japanese, vocab, oishii, culture
Follow Your Curiosity