Brilliant ad campaign by JWT for Ford Motor Company Brasil and Conservação Internacional “aiming at encouraging and recognizing projects on the protection of nature and biodiversity.”

by JWT
Take a look at JWT’s site as well. (i.e. PLAY with it.) I love the way it works!

via Eugene at MyModernMet 

When we are most affected by the arts, whether through participation or observation, we experience the sublime…

During these moments, we are not thinking; in fact, we are most empty of our thoughts. All of our attention focuses on the present moment.

Artists and scientists both, that allow themselves to dwell in these moments of mental stillness, often begin to feel a larger interconnection with all things around them—their sense of self begins to fade.

In a very deep sense, creativity and the sublime, through the arts and sometimes through the sciences, act as a gateway towards a depth within ourselves.

- Jeff Lieberman
on Arresting Stillness: A Photographic Art at Integral Life
(click through for the full quote)

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. [...] So for this age, for your time, I want you to just think about this: Think about NOT waiting your turn.

Later on…

If you can… fall in love, with the work, with people you work with, with your dreams and their dreams. Whatever it was that got you to this school, don’t let it go. Whatever kept you here, don’t let that go. [...]

And don’t stop. Just hold on… and keep loving what you love…

- Robert Krulwich, Commencement Speech at Berkeley May 7, 2011

Read the full, very worthwhile speech here.

It’s about journalism, but his wisdom applies to all fields (oh! how the working world has changed!) Read and be inspired… And enlightened!

You are 1 person out of 7 billion people
On 1 planet out of 8 planets
In 1 star system out of 100 billion star systems
In 1 galaxy out of 100 billion galaxies
And you are enormously insignificant.

via swissmiss

(Be sure to click through to read the comments. I especially like the first commenter’s point of view.)

“With a team of two assistants, Bolin paints onto his clothes and then spends hours positioning himself in front of backdrops until he’s virtually invisible.”

-MyModernMet

“In my work, the artist is hiding to restore his strength and to protect himself. I want my viewers to experience China as I know it, where the concept of artists as human beings was once neglected.”

-Liu Bolin

via My Modern Metropolis

For all the scientists and creative nerds out there.

We. Rock.

xkcd

“I believe that as artists we all have a certain pool of creative energy that we draw from. For me, I have found that it does not matter what I do with that energy – whether it is drawing, painting, building picture frames, writing music, taking photos, designing corporate branding, writing software, designing logos or creating digital composites – it all comes from the same place – and it doesn’t matter how I use it, it only matters that I do use it.

-Josh Summers

Hear hear!

Add acting to the list for me. I think going to concerts and plays also fits into the mix.

via Eugene at MyModernMet

When Weisberg looks out at the world or when Roger Horchow sits next to you on an airplane, they don’t see the same world that the rest of us see. They see possibility, and while most of us are busily choosing whom we would like to know, and rejecting the people who don’t look right or live out near the airport, or whom we haven’t seen in sixty-five years, Lois and Roger like them all.

The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
53

I tend to think that there’s an element of music that cannot be captured. Life cannot be captured. Human heart cannot be captured. The moment of creation itself is fleeting.

Parker Wilson
(played by Richard Gere)
in the movie Hachi

I am tired, Quilan. I have waited for these memories to lose their force over the years and decades and centuries, but they have not. There are places to go, but either I would not be me when I went there, or I would remain myself and so still have my memories. By waiting for them to drop away all this time I have grown into them, and they into me. We have become each other. There is no way back I consider worth taking.

Look To Windward by Iain M. Banks
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