7. READ. LOOK. THINK.

Items of interest.

READ.

• “I was jealous of older writers who had gotten more of a toehold on their discipline before the web came.” Miranda July in The New Yorker
• Staying up late at museums (what painting would you sleep under, and dream of?) | NYTimes.com
• Longform.org’s guide to Woody Allen: profiles, interviews, and his own journalism. | Slate Magazine
• Notes on a voice: a series on what makes well-loved authors sound uniquely like themselves | More Intelligent Life
• Patti Smith, the curator of rock ‘n’ roll | Grantland
• The fierce imagination of Haruki Murakami | NYTimes.com
• That’s how it usually goes with the Big Scary. The things we’re most afraid of are rarely the ones that end up taking the biggest bite out of us. | Aryn Kyle
• I saw The Future (brilliant) and Miranda July’s School of Life Sermon (brilliant) so I put this together for work’s blog: “Don’t give up:” 20 lessons for creatives from Miranda July.

LOOK.

• Almost everything you see is the result of a decision someone has made | Victoria Hannan
• Book Creator | The simple way to create beautiful books on the iPad
• Appreciating Sonia Delauney’s fashion illustrations.
• Murakami’s Tokyo | NYTimes.com
• Brooklyn Pottery, a Tumblr
• Proclamation: We are tired of hearing the picture book is in trouble, and tired of pretending it is not. And so…
• Despite being an average photographer at best, I’m back on Flickr. I’ve uploaded a cache of photos I took on my walks in Melbourne’s CBD/Fitzroy/Collingwood/Carlton when I lived in 3065 in 2005-2006. My over-reliance on photoshop filters was like an early forerunner of Instagram. I look back on this with puzzlement. Did I not think my photos were legit without a weird filter over them? (I think this insecurity, not universal but sometimes deeply hidden, lies behind the spectacular uptake of Instagram.) But I also remember being completely in love with Melbourne then – maybe I was boosting them to show how spectacular the city looked in my eyes.

THINK.

• Because it’s all in your fashions.
• Paris syndrome | Wikipedia
• What colour should gallery walls be? 

LINKNESS.

• My wrap up of the week’s top strategy + creativity + marketing reads on Nextness.