16. READ. LOOK. THINK.

My weekly collection of the thoughtful, complex, beautiful and good.

READ.

• The homebirth of Alba Joy Firebrace | We live young
• “Something which is totally vacuous and vapid has a self-conscious ‘ironic’ tag attached to it, and suddenly we’re supposed to appreciate it because the artist/musician is aware of their own meaninglessness.” | le projet d’amour
• Psychoanalyzing Lucian Freud | Vanity Fair
• “Everyone has those little secret happinesses…” | An Apple a Day
• So Many Feelings | n+1 and Ladies, Women and Girls and maybe…

LOOK.

• Ira Glass interviews his cousin, composer Philip Glass | NPR
• Craft Victoria’s The Craft Blog.
• Hand crocheted sweater in Japanese yarns.
• Marmalade | CHOW
• Isson – Bauhaus Portraits | Code For Something
• Saturday at the Schoolhouse. A warren of studios in an old Abbotsford schoolhouse, destined to be bulldozed | It Was Always All For You
• “Ready made Australian interiors, documented by outsider artists, assembled here as found object. Content source from realestate.com.au” | Straight to the pool room
• BOBBED HAIR! at Christian Dior Spring 2012 Couture Collection.
• Some works of Australian painter Clarice Beckett | life in the slow line
• I’ve updated my list of favourite cookbooks to take into account new additions. In particular Jude’s found that the Burke Street Bakery pastry recipe is failsafe – even if you use a wine bottle as a rolling pin.

THINK.

• Don’t be obsessed with a tidy house. “What is order anyway? A temporary feeling that all is in control. Fleeting.” | Keri Smith
• Why urban, educated parents are turning to DIY education | The Daily Beast
• “The intercession of a thousand small sanities.” Perhaps big problems don’t have to, and can’t be, be solved – instead we can just chip away at them | how to save the world
• “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom”—Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety.

LINKNESS.

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