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  • 12.26.2011 This is water.
    In Praise Of:, Inspiration No Comments

    From what may be my favorite piece of writing from DFW: The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. – David Foster […]

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  • 12.13.2011 Amen.
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    We are bludgeoned with snapshots of cats playing polo. We are pinioned with pics of people we hardly know. We hardly have time for great because we are so besieged (and besotted) by the deluge of daily dreck. There is greatness in the world. Greatness and originality. In art and […]

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  • 12.12.2011 The Infinite Stupidity of Facebook
    In Praise Of:, Inspiration, Social Media No Comments

    The interesting thing with Facebook is that, with 500 to 800 million of us connected around the world, it sort of devalues information and devalues knowledge. And this isn’t the comment of some reactionary who doesn’t like Facebook, but it’s rather the comment of someone who realizes that knowledge and […]

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  • 10.14.2011
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    I still don’t know whether or not to like an interesting article on a fascinating topic, my intended amour for the sentiment rather than the event. I’m not certain how my sarcasm is being met, nor if my lack of comment on the passing of a celebrity signals contempt for […]

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  • 07.14.2011 Because I Don’t Want to Forget This Wonderful Essay
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    And yet pain hurts but it doesn’t kill. When you consider the alternative — an anesthetized dream of self-sufficiency, abetted by technology — pain emerges as the natural product and natural indicator of being alive in a resistant world. To go through a life painlessly is to have not lived. […]

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  • 06.09.2011 Donate Your Misspellings to UNICEF
    Advertising, In Praise Of: No Comments

    I support this idea 100%. UNICEF – Donate a word from Katharina Schmitt on Vimeo. Miami Ad School AD: Lisa Zeitlhuber http://cargocollective.com/lisazeitlhuber CW: Katharina Schmitt http://cargocollective.com/katharinaschmitt Instructors: Tara Lawall (BBH) & Graham Douglas (Droga5) Student Work via

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  • 05.25.2011 No Words Needed
    2011 in Photos, In Praise Of: No Comments

    Sometimes, when I hear about natural disasters, I file the news away in my brain under “things I need to care more about but most of the time I don’t.” Awful, I know. But every year it’s essentially the same story over and over: Hurricane in the south, lots of […]

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