Quote for Today: Lynn Hersha
What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer …
Painted Trains: Art Off the Tracks? Part One
Graffiti hearkens back to ancient public art. Is there something valuable in street art that is good for the community? There is an innate conflict between street art and property. …
Quote for Today: Anna Funder
I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know …
Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?…If we value the freedom of mind …
Feeling the Road: The Toyota FV2
Will autonomous cars replace the freedom of the open road with the “predictability” of machines? Here’s an alternative from Toyota. One can see why a car that drives itself is …
On Enlightenment: The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato’s Allegory In Clay by Michael Ramsey and John Grigsby
The philosopher Plato speaks of his understanding of human nature in Book VII of The Republic, in a short allegory known as the Allegory of the Cave, which you can …
Quote for Today: Monique Duval
She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky. ― Monique Duval