Anonymous asked - "Have you ever been in love?"
Dunno. I’ve certainly been interested and intrigued and enamored and deeply and dangerously obsessed. Everyone falls victim to the whole spectrum. Maybe it was in there somewhere.
Anonymous asked - "Hows life treatin ya?"
Pretty good. I’m currently working in an internship in St. Louis learning a lot, and I’m all set to go to Japan for another one in the fall. It’s a little lonely out here though…
"I wanted to do some work, didn’t want to fritter away the morning in chatter. I wanted to make lists. So I did. Like this one:
1. make list;
2. experience the reduction of stress that comes from the mere creation of a list;
3. come to the realization that this reduction in stress is illusory as it fails to be based on any tangible accomplishment;
4. armed with this realization, accomplish actual, necessary tasks, but first;
5. so as to avoid scattershot activity, and maximize productivity, think of what needs to be done and make a list.
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2. experience the reduction of stress that comes from the mere creation of a list;
3. come to the realization that this reduction in stress is illusory as it fails to be based on any tangible accomplishment;
4. armed with this realization, accomplish actual, necessary tasks, but first;
5. so as to avoid scattershot activity, and maximize productivity, think of what needs to be done and make a list.
- A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava
Anonymous asked - "who is ur source of inspiration?"
idk how long this has been sitting in my inbox my bad hahaha
Source of inspiration… for what? Like a life role model? A muse? An architect/artist whose work I like?
I guess a lot comes from movies. Some directors… Wong Kar Wai these days is a big one for me. Jean Luc Godard. Darren Aronofsky. Wes Anderson. Also a few loose films that have impacted me a lot recently… Sunshine by Danny Boyle and La Jetee by Chris Marker (Thanks Professor Yoder)
I could go on about musicians and artists and architects but I’m not trying to bore anyone. One more name though, Olafur Elaisson. He’s not exactly an architect, but he’s the one who got me into it all.
"‘I believe I’m in the mood for some coffee, would you like to join me?’
‘No, I’m never again leaving this office.’
‘Well I’m going to get some, would you like me to bring you back some form of beverage?’
‘Yes.’
‘Coffee?’
‘Yes.’
‘How?’
‘I’m easy, just get me one of those I think it’s called a fatslap-push-push-in-the-bush-consigliere-capillary-freezy-supremicious or something, extra non-decaf please. Now when the guy pours the espresso into the foamy milk please make sure that he pierces the smallest possible area of the upper foam. The result should be akin to a brown pin prick on a sea of white. Moreover, when he pours the espresso in he should do so at such a deliberate rate that the espresso and the milk, which incidentally should be foamed to no more than seventy-five percent congealment status, will not mix but rather will form two distinct levels featuring two different colors, with a great deal of wavy quantum action taking place at the border where they conjoin. Once that’s done I shall like a fair amount of cinnamon sprinkled atop of the now pierced milk. Now when I say a fair amount of cinnamon I do not mean that the entire surface area should be covered. Rather the appearance of the cinnamon should be not unlike that of a distant nebula, such appearance with which I’m sure you’re familiar. Remember, a cinnamon nebula is the goal. A cinnebula if you will. As for sugar, enough should be added to combat the inherent bitterness of espresso coffee but not so much added that it overpowers all the other competing flavors the beverage brings to the table. Also do not stir the beverage, as such a stirring would undoubtedly compromise the dual-level system I just mentioned. Instead add the sugar at a rate where each individual sugar granule will have its individual component molecules sufficiently bombarded by surrounding molecules, traveling at a high rate of speed due to the extreme heat of the beverage, as to occasion the dissolving of the granule before it reaches the bottom of the cup. Lastly, please take care to walk the drink over with minimal bipedal concussion so as not to disrupt the dual-level system. Thanks man.’
‘I’m just going downstairs to the gentleman with the newsstand so do you want from the orange-lidded dispenser or the brown?’
‘Brown.’"
- An excerpt from A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava
