Japanese for soul.
Month: December 2013
Georgian for play
Cupcake Carrie is a Young lady who ate one too many cupcakes and now is doomed to a forever sweet +
Chuck and his many rock discoveries.
A school that we could take with us every day, wherever we go.
...or not.
—Gail Swanlund
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. Fear is no longer a dominant factor +
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You are not here to fix anything, because nothing is broken, but everything is continually changing and expanding. Release your +
YES is MORE.
—Bjarke Ingels
One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in rather different situation, +
Beauty is always the result of an accident.
—Jean Cocteau
The unknown is an abstraction; the known, a desert; but what is half known, half seen, is the perfect breeding +
Be curious, not judgmental.
—Walt Whitman
...game, serenity, intelligence and joy are the rules of a noble task: to improve the quality of the world with +
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
—Jorge Luis Borges
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
—Chuck Palaniuk
It’s part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality.
—Ray Bradbury
Take a giant step outside.
Perfection is beautiful, but it’s stupid. You have to know it in order to break it. Rules mustn’t stifle fantasy.
—Bruno +
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
—Jack Kerouac
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
—William S. Borroughs
To keep the spirit of childhood within oneself…means retaining the curiosity of knowing, the pleasure of understanding, the desire to +
What could be.
What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.
—Miranda July
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
—Haruki Murakami
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
—Henry David Thoreau
Second object smelled really bad.
Remind yourself (and us) of something important.
Look into a glass or cup full of liquid. It can be water, coffee, tea, anything. Draw a picture of +
Live an hour as someone else. Name the person (real or imagined). How do they wear their sunglasses? How do +
Walk on a tightrope from one cloud to another.
Find a pattern, textile or texture around you. This can be woodgrain in the floor, clouds in the sky, or +
Make a new symbol for the word “why.”
Make a list of the pros and cons of making a list of pros and cons.
Write out your favorite poem. If you don’t have one, find one or make one and write it out. Cross +
Go for a walk. Find a place you have never been, whether it is big or small. Bring something back +
Reflect on one of your favorite personal mistakes.
Pick one consonant from the alphabet. Try to speak and write without using that consonant for an hour.
Draw your family in thirty seconds.
Sleep with your head on the opposite end of the bed tonight. Note how you feel when you first wake +
Create a superhero alter-ego for yourself based on your favorite food.
Make a wish and repeat it in your head as many times as you can. Write down the first thought +
Make a map of the city you live in from memory. Include the things you know, think, believe and hope +
Rename silence using as many words as you can.
Write an origin story for the color blue.
Take your name and make as many anagrams as you can. Do any of them describe you better than your +
Walk with your head looking straight into the sky and tell me how the world looks and how you feel.
Look down.
What's there?
What does the word "interesting" mean?
Do you use it often?
What do you really mean?
You should make a fort inside of your house!!
(and show us what happened)
Next several times you brush your teeth in front of the sink, try this:
Stand really far from the sink
Stand really +
Scent Gathering
Close your eyes and take a whiff of something without looking at it.
Draw the scent.
The height played an essential part of seeing.
I wonder how people see the world differently depending on their height!
Should we +
Sight Gathering
Some objects that students used to play with this exercise.
Sound Gathering