: “Stopping a conversation to ask the right questions is far superior to nodding along in ignorance,” Ratliff

: re(peat)hearsal...

: choreographing Contemporary Dance in the morning, rebuilding my '67 Mustang in the afternoon. Christmas has started already!!!

: with all the taste and none of the nutrition!!

: "even nothing cannot last forever" ― Neil Gaiman

: These people who are stuck in a space that is dictated by arbitrary meta-semiotics. These meta-semiotics which are broadcast through electronic mediums that solicits human behaviour in a distanced way, that prescribes solution without thought.

: "one of the most powerful laws in the universe is the law of unintended consequences"

Excerpt From: Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner. Superfreakonomics

: would complete equality end in a world homogenised.?

: "In a functional perspective the question "What does choreography mean today?" could be spelled as following: What is choreography doing today? Why? What does this doing stand for?" - Boyan Manchev

: "and he had come to the recognition that most of what is generally considered the truth is entirely relative."

Excerpt From: Murakami, Haruki. 1Q84.

: "always stuck between feelings of inferiority and superiority"

Excerpt From: Murakami, Haruki. 1Q84.

: "Number one on the (best sellers) list now was a diet book entitled Eat as Much as You Want of the Food You Love and Still Lose Weight. What a great title. The whole book could be blank inside and it would still sell."

Excerpt From: Murakami, Haruki. "1Q84".

: "Something midway between an object and a concept"

Excerpt From: Murakami, Haruki. 1Q84.

: todays generation defaults to working inter-disciplinarily, our focus now must be on...

: Audience development is not about accessibility, it is about relevancy!

: was there a time when stretch limousines were as tacky as stretch hummers..

: We used to buy out of necessity, now we buy to advertise our identity.

: "At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past."

Excerpt From: Murakami, Haruki. 1Q84.

: democracy and capitalism are very separate things.

: “Forget about counting calories,” she would always advise them. “Once you develop a knack for choosing the proper ingredients and eating in moderation, you don’t have to pay attention to numbers.”

Excerpt From: Murakami, Haruki. “1Q84.”

: “he had finally worked his way up to the lowest spot on the totem pole.”

Excerpt From: Murakami, Haruki. “1Q84.”

The Australian Red Cross won't let you donate blood if you're gay?!!

: "part of the process of understanding how something works, even something really technical... needs to be filled up by their own curiosity, their own willingness to explore... so when you can bring imagery and poetry to the technical aspects of the teaching, you involve the student to go beyond the technical...." - Alejandro Rolandi

: we program computers with code and they will program us with movement.

: losing interest in being right!!

: “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” ― John F. Kennedy

: "bias was an important element of truth"

: "choreography is also very important on a dramaturgical level since it has a great influence on the psychology of the storytelling. And that's what I am: a storyteller." Martine Pisani

: "Choreography is about movement.
And movement is about transformation,
about change.
Small and giant
Visible and invisible
External and internal.
Choreography started as a platform for the visible movement,
for the visible change.
But choreography accompanied the research on the body, the discoveries of the body.
External and internal discoveries
at a macro and at a microlevel.
A body moves when it breathes.
A body moves when it reads.
A body moves when it thinks, when it decides, when it grows, when it sleeps.
A body has other bodies that move inside: neurons, cells, particles.
But if choreography is the study of movement, it cannot be only about the human body.
Choreography is also about the movement that sorrounds us,
the planets, the stars, the cities, the rocks, the winds
organic, inorganic
natural, synthetic,
alive or dead
everything moves,
and choreography is about movement."
- Patricia Portela

: "Considering the various and numerous definitions of choreography, I intentionally keep mine very simple and rather "classical": For me, choreography means a reflected order of movement in space and time.

But – and it is this which makes our discipline so intriguing – movement in this formula stands as a pulsating placeholder for many things: Thinking, energy, gesture, rhythm – just to name a few. With this, the field of possibilities consciously and consequentially is expanded into infinity. And that's very good for the future of our field …" - Sigrid Gareis

: "Choreography is hanging around in space and being somewhat conscious of it. Time just does its thing." - Peter Panayi

: "Creation is ruled by statement, the establishment of form lags behind" - Andrea Amort

: "the rhythm is inevitable" - symphony development 2012 LOTW

: "As soon as anything at all moves on the stage, a whole complex of perceptions, feelings, associations and world is moving along with it." - Thomas Lehmen

: “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” — Vincent van Gogh

: "Choreography is composing a dance within a spectator's perception." Yasmine Hugonnet

: "the communication field of performing art"
http://www.corpusweb.net/introduction-to-the-survey-2.html

: “You can be sincere and still be stupid.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

: “You don’t see, because you don’t look.”

: “Nothing happens until something moves.” — Albert Einstein

--> everyone in Sydney should experience "Whelping Box" !!
http://www.performancespace.com.au/2012/performance-whelping-box/

: have less be more

: turning a "state into a trait"

-> tomorrow at 18:30 is the opening of 107 artspace in Redfern. I'll be performing live soundscape and there is free ice cream so i've heard! come along if you can! http://www.facebook.com/events/450666978319094/?fref=ts

: "rat racing or dream chasing?" - bravo child

: "Any dancer or doctor knows full well what an incredibly expressive device your body is. 300 joints! 600 muscles! Hundreds of degrees of freedom!

The next time you make breakfast, pay attention to the exquisitely intricate choreography of opening cupboards and pouring the milk — notice how your limbs move in space, how effortlessly you use your weight and balance. The only reason your mind doesn't explode every morning from the sheer awesomeness of your balletic achievement is that everyone else in the world can do this as well.

With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of Interaction should be a single finger?"

: "A tool addresses human needs by amplifying human capabilities."

: "keep moving until you are still" - Jerry Killick

: "pronunciation is largely a matter of familiarity mingled with prejudice." - Bill Bryson

: a future affects our present just as much as a past.

: www.styleimpressionskrew.com

: past and future equally don't exist. And they can be equally influential on our present.

: "inverted expectations are the key to most good jokes"

: he awoke one day having sold his youth.

: he awoke one day having sold his youth.

: he awoke one day having sold his youth.

: text without context.

: it must seem strange to a large portion of the people in the world that the men of another large portion of the people of the world awake each morning and quite soon after, scrape a sharpened blade across their faces to return to the facial-hairlessness they knew as children.

Fat dancer

: it used to be 'your life or my life' then it was 'your life or my comfort' now it's 'your life or my ego'.

: to "know" is just to have a belief a bit more solid than some of your other beliefs.

: we spend more children protecting our money than money protecting our children.

: If you are trying to be successful, it is important to know how you will measure your success..

: if the doers didn't do, the talkers would have nothing to talk about.

: words only exist in the mind.

: "reasons for avoiding everything from work to exercise to social activity are all self-inflicted."

: the difference between toys and tools lay only in the skill of the user.

: When the stage has the same rules as the street. BORING!!!

: in Australia most people have a lot but most still want more - thus the feeling of not having enough.

: Style Impressions Krew is on ABC NT tonight if anyone wants another taste of our Darwin Festival performance!!

if you go to see 'Contemporary Women' at SpringDance @ Sydney Opera House let me know what you think of the sound i made for Lisa Wilson. I can't make it, double booked #Dancing In Europe.

: continually buying our way out of self-perpetuated boredom.

: we invented trains, we ended up with suburbs.

: "nothing goes away until it teaches us what we need to know"

: wants to make sense(ory experience) in a world obsessed with writing (and wrestling) logic.

: http://youtu.be/u86xMcRj-Q8?t=4m6s

: "A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for."
John Shedd

: closing night! Darwin Festival! check out StyleImpressionsKrew.com for details. Show starts at 7:30 at the Spiegal Tent in the Botanical Gardens!!

: judged & showcased the Lighthouse Bboy battle on Tuesday night, premiere Style Impressions Krew show for Darwin Festival tomorrow night, Legs On the Wall - Open Source residency showing on Friday (& Sat) then some sound I made will be playing at the Sydney Opera House next week while the SDC dancers bust out chorey for Contemporary Women!!

: skill or riches..

Bboy battle

: silence will one day be so rare that people will pay for it..

http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/profiles/arts/matt-cornell-190978

: “What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?”
— Robert Hughes

Darwin Festival S.I.K

Darwin Festival S.I.K

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Passion AND Perspective

Passion AND Perspective

: an open source project, owned by nobody and supported by many.

internet cable guarded by penguins!

An undersea internet cable from one country to the other.

: inaliable assets

: inalienable assets

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: "perception is reality"

: some foods are just little edible beds for other foods..

: some foods are just little edible beds for other foods...

: "Things got a bit rowdy, in a seemingly friendly way. Seemingly. As someone who is now deathly sober in such situations, I can tell you there’s always a taut tension amongst those who are visibly drunk, the feeling that civility is teetering on a sharp precipice. One wrong word, one poorly timed stare, a single clumsily bumped shoulder and that delicate structure crumbles into a mess of verbals and fisticuffs"

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: "Things got a bit rowdy, in a seemingly friendly way. Seemingly. As someone who is now deathly sober in such situations, I can tell you there’s always a taut tension amongst those who are visibly drunk, the feeling that civility is teetering on a sharp precipice. One wrong word, one poorly timed stare, a single clumsily bumped shoulder and that delicate structure crumbles into a mess of verbals and fisticuffs"

: "Things got a bit rowdy, in a seemingly friendly way. Seemingly. As someone who is now deathly sober in such situations, I can tell you there’s always a taut tension amongst those who are visibly drunk, the feeling that civility is teetering on a sharp precipice. One wrong word, one poorly timed stare, a single clumsily bumped shoulder and that delicate structure crumbles into a mess of verbals and fisticuffs"

Get a job

: there is so much more to Aussie hip hop than white male rappers.

: one cannot lead from behind. It must be by example.

"Boredom: The desire for desires" - Leo Tolstoy

If you back far enough

If you go back far enough, we're all immigrants

Subtle need not mean minimal.
Passion need not equal drama

Digital

Old school forms of very effective, almost universally understood, Digital communication!

: who would you be without your TV.

: loves writing with a pencil!

Anyone who wants more without defining how much more will never have enough.

""What’s new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion"

: "Cheaters don't like getting cheated"

: society is a normalizing machine!

: process focused, outcome aware..

: ethical vs conventional

: somehow good people find ways to do bad things.

: in letting go we are letting come and go.

: if you're not here now you won't be there then.

: JupitersMoons.MattCornell.com

: "memes are to cultures what genes are to bodies."

: Multitasking – procrastinating

: edutainment!

: directing my insatiability.

: signal vs noise

: finding the bliss in discomfort is easier with momentum.

: "natural landscapes are unavoidably inspiring" - Tim Darbyshire

: "if you don't make the choice, the choice makes you."

: not everything must happen at once so stop waiting.

"Begraifen - a german word. it means you touch something and at the same time you understand it." - http://youtu.be/vhm9Wz-A0-Y

: "The important thing for adults to do is to carefully observe an adolescent’s interests and abilities, and insert challenges that move maturation forward at a reasonable level. If you push too fast, you end up with a stressed out adolescent. If you do not challenge sufficiently, you end up with a bored adolescent."

How to be a panda!!

: a piece I've choreographed is opening tonight at Seymour Centre!

http://www.HyperRealAustralia.com/

: a key component of disappointment is surprise.

: "self sufficiency - these days we call it poverty" Matt Cutts

: there is not enough time for everything, you have to make a choice, and if you fail to choose.. the choice will be made for you, and as it was chosen by others it will serve others.

The first wireless TV remote

: “subjectivity is diversified among the different senses, & distributed to different, unique, bodily centres of accountability” Jonothan Crary

: the best thing about 3D printing - "Free software upgrades will be provided and hardware upgrades can be downloaded and printed."

: would pears grow into a different shape in zero gravity?

Almost 2 yrs ago!!

: busyness vs business

: trying to avoid failure vs trying to make history

: "cog­ni­tion is linked to other con­cepts: emo­tion is the pro­cess­ing sys­tem that tells us how impor­tant some­thing is; atten­tion focuses us on the impor­tant and away from the unim­por­tant things; problem-solving deter­mines how to respond, partly on the basis of our mem­ory of prior related expe­ri­ences; and behav­ior car­ries out the deci­sion. The gen­eral term cog­ni­tion encom­passes these var­i­ous processes"

: "Vertical thinking moves only if there are directions on how to move. Lateral thinking moves in order to generate directions."

: "the small wonders that we realise into existence" - Bravo Child

: "The essence of intelligence is making decisions"

: "Have a greater concern with your students' progress and comprehension than in enhancing your own reputation. This dedication must be sincere, and not just an act. Effective teaching is like good dance partnering in that it's primarily dancing for your partner's success rather than showing off your own fancy steps." - http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/teaching_tips.htm

: better to be controversial or irrelevant?

: "the following partner does not just "follow", they interpret the signals their partners are giving them, and this requires intelligence and decision-making, which is active, not passive." - http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/partnering.htm

: pro-active vs re-active

: "Focus On Spending More Time, Not Money, On Things You Enjoy"

Reflect

: "there are always a number of regimes simultaneously striving for hegemony."

: "tell me how long I'm going to live and i'll tell you if i have enough money."

: "people are simply naturally artificial, and artist teach us to live with this fact, for better or for worse" - Petran Kockelkoren

who owns what

: wandering and wondering

: "Cornell’s work was a highlight of the evening" - http://citynews.com.au/2012/arts-entertainment/review-me-right-now/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

: “Do you think Chris Rock’s real name is Christian Rock?”

: Archetype or Stereotype?

: QL2 premier of 'Me Right Now' tomorrow night at the Playhouse. I choreographed the boys section, check it out!! Blog.QL2.org.au

: "We don’t need to defeat Goliath. We need to change the way he thinks."

: a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

: it's true what you think.

: Creativity is just connecting things.

: ". . . it is a myth to insist that rejecting consumerism also means rejecting our basic needs, our technology, our stylishness, or our quality of life."

: have less. be more.

: sometimes outdated metaphors are brought back into use to refer to new discoveries

: "the infrastructure determines the super structure"

: action expresses priorities.

: “Too much existence. Isn’t good for luminance.“ (Anja Hilling)

: : "One has to be an open palm. As soon as it clenches into a fist, the person looses the ability to learn and to enjoy new things. And that is the onset of old age".

: the systems we are involved in.

L kick!

Shape of the world

: if a question doesn't need to be answered does it need to be asked?

neither machoism nor campism are requisites for defining ones sexuality.

: animate - to give soul

: educated/indoctrinated

: "abandonment isn’t an attack, it’s just a discontinuance of support."

: never assume

: rhetoric vs discourse

: If you had a billion dollars in the bank, would you go on doing the work you do to make a living? Really honestly truly?

: "Religion is a barbiturate, dulling the pain and putting you to sleep. Revolution is an amphetamine, revving you up and making you feel powerful. When people have nothing else going for them, they’ll grab either one—or both."

: "the boss is just another person with a job—the job of being boss. The boss isn’t to be envied or even particularly admired"

: "Natural selection is a process that separates the workable from the unworkable, not the perfect from the imperfect."

: "We must destroy in ourselves and in the people around us the meme proclaiming civilization to be an unsurpassable invention."

: "Inexplicable behavior can’t be allowed to remain inexplicable"

: to settle: to plateau

: misunderstanding is still a form of understanding.

: of all animals, it is only people who do the same thing over and over and expect different results.

: "Its success was sponsored by destiny."

: Opening night tonight! Choreographed by Anton Anton, Kay Armstrong, Vicki Van Hout, Sue Healey, Lee Pemberton, Philip Channells, Adelina Larsson & Matt Cornell - composed by Bob Scott. Thanks AD Rowan Marchingo and Ausdance Nsw and all the dancers!! including: Naisda, fLING, Sprung, Torsion, Restless, Liquid Limbs, Fresh Bred, Austinmer, Lingua Franca and not forgetting our visitors from as far abroad as Denmark and Glasgow - Yvonne YDance http://www.ausdancensw.com.au/Aydf2012/1401/1694/3/0/0/

: "We will never, under any circumstances, be able to stop change on this planet."

: "no invention is ever unsurpassable. The steam engine was surpassed by the gas engine. The radio was surpassed by television. The calculator was surpassed by the computer. Why should civilization be different?"

: it would seem the best things in life must be given, they can not just be taken.

: a show I've choreographed for http://www.ql2.org.au/merightnow2012.php opening in may!!

: “The ultimate inspiration is the deadline” is a quote from Nolan Bushnell,

: "central heating and universities and opera houses and space ships"

: can one start wanting something before they know it exists?

: This project highlights the irony that: we are creating perfect models of existence that we cannot exist within. The most personal and true representation of 'Self' is removed from self - relegated to an online space - Bravo Child

: a heaven sent for late night work - http://stereopsis.com/flux/

: "women don't follow, they interpret the signals their partners are giving them, and this requires intelligence and decision-making, which is active, not passive" - http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/partnering.htm

: it doesn't give them power, it gives ten lives that are satisfying and meaningful to them.

: "it's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than important things that are not urgent"- John Cleese

: Scott Adams - "Losers have goals. Winners have systems."

Illusion

: "The value is not in difficulty of the work. It's in the applicability."

: a polite review is boring.

: "put your hands up in the air, put your hands up in the air."

: "When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul’s desires have too high a price, let us remind each other that it is never about the money."

: "was a sunburnt country, now a fat drunk county." - Are We There Yet? by The Last Kinection

: "Entry is by donation of a cake."

: we create our own logic in-as-much that adhering to it may be a moot point.

: "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate"

: digitally as in with ones digits.

: humans are not alone on this planet!

: "an axiom stating that there is no way to obtain any certain knowledge about how people ought to live" - Daniel Quinn

: "The field of creativity may need to shift its current focus from identifying how to generate more creative ideas to identify how to help innovative institutions recognize and accept creativity."

Cheap?

"Spend extravagantly on the things you love, and cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t."

: we love to argue minor points because it absolves us from feeling that we must take action.

: Flat out like a lizard drinking!

: satisfied vs pacified.

: "the revolt hadn't been put down, it had just dwindled away into a fashion statement" - Daniel Quinn

raise

Cert in typing.

Click here for typing certificate.pdf

Cert in typing.

: http://time.is/

: is there anything that is not arbitrary?

: "opinions reside inside the building, facts reside outside."

Bug

Snug?!??!

: "the rock business is a prime example of the most ruthless kind of capitalism" - Richard Branson

Matt Cornell - Darwin Festival 2011 performing with Tiffany and the Curls

Matt Cornell - Darwin Festival 2011 performing with Tiffany and the Curls
TheMattmosphere.com
TiffanyandtheCurls.com
thanks to Darwin Festival!!

: "I don't think there's such a thing as composition in pop music" - Sting

: "Even with a (sonic) pro at the helm, over-editing only achieves a sound akin to the look of models on magazine covers that resemble people, but are really soulless shadows of the real thing."

: shared TV viewing does not equal family time.

Young Minds - "The Power of Movement".

Click here for Young Minds 2012 speaker offer Matt Cornell.pdf

Hello!

I'm presenting my TEDx Talk - "The Power of Movement and it's affect on our state of being" at the Young Minds Conference in Sydney in June. -www.youngminds.org.au

TEDx.TheMattmosphere.com <- you can click this link to see the TEDx version

I have attached a page explaining how to get 50% off for under 21's and other discounts as a friend or colleague of mine. I have also attached a program of the whole event. I don't get any commissions from your attendance, just spreading the word in the hopes that even those of you who aren't interested will see value enough to continue spreading the word to those you think may be interested.

: "perhaps it’s not that we need to get better at producing creative ideas, but at learning how to accept them."

: If not now then when?

Thanks to all who rocked my class on Wednesday morning, especially Olia Golubova, Anthea Doropoulos, Trish Wood, Alona Rosenberg, and Jay Bailey. I'm teaching this coming Wednesday as well!! http://www.ausdancensw.com.au/BioMattCornell/1443/n/3/0/0/

: forget god, worms are the conduit for taking us back into the earth.

face palm

: Passion does not segregate. (we are either alive with it in all aspects of our life or numbed to calm acceptance.)

: "The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything ... they just make the best of everything they have"

: renewable is not equal to infinite.

: the Australian accent is constantly changing.

: "to navigate the fine line between edgy and appalling, authentic and offensive."

Late night Billboard

Living on purpose?

Matt with Matt - NFSA

Larger than life!

A speech given before my time.

Click here for A speech before my time..mp3

Young Minds

Matt Cornell speaking at the Young Minds conference

: to start every day as a producer, not a consumer.

: don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

: who wants to be informed when they can be affirmed.

: a symphonic cacophony of distraction

: Genres are the platforms and paradigms of the creative world. - Steven Johnson

: Genres supply a set of implicit rules that have enough coherence that traditionalists can safely play inside them, and more adventurous artists can confound our expectations by playing with them. - where good ideas come from.

Gifted company

3 layer pav!

Taronga Night

Taronga Night - MattCornell.com

: are you listening or guessing?

: Their results suggest "that whatever it is that an IQ test measures, it is not the ability to engage in complex forms of multivariate reasoning."

: sometimes free is more expensive.

: from information to integration.

: "The imitation of complex skills is what we call culture" - Lecture by Alex Deutinger and Marta Navaridas at the Congress ¨Re-staging Alterity¨

: Wow!!! just scored MattCornell.com thanks to my sister TiffanyCornell.com !!!!

: luck: when preparation meets opportunity.

"It's one of those concept we understand intuitively but then we dwell on it and realize how complicated it is."

: The remarkable potential of ordinary adults and their amazing capacity for change with practice - Anders Ericsson

: if one is not dancing one is not dance-training; they are instead cross-training.

: "are working in the way we are working because we want to, or because we are stuck in a form we have got used to or efficient in"

: ease and simplicity are very different things.

Snoopy

: "the man who claimed to have thirty years experience might simply be making the same mistake every year for thirty years." - Gerard I. Nierenberg

: "Such findings do not prove that talent doesn't exist. But they suggest an intriguing possibility: that if it does, it may be irrelevant." - Geoff Colvin

: "and he presented his new theory with a convert's zeal."

: "the scarce resource is no longer money. It's human ability."

: "And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a movement whose riches are measured in people, not cash." - http://thisismadebyhand.com/

: doing ones research is very different than testing for yourself.

Success

: "laziness is the habit of giving up before reaching tired."

: "To have an idea and let it travel would unravel the people in the steeple who would battle a free thinking inspiration a re-forming nation inspiration delegation to curb aspiration of the masses and stop clashes between people and state market saturation ofthemost frivolous information all an instigation of a present tense lacking common sense driven to the enth, Degree."

: He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche

: ANXIETY = feelings of UNCERTAINTY x feelings of POWERLESSNESS

: Socrates said it best, “He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have."

: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” - Viktor Frankl

: ‘All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’ ~Blaise Pascal

: we are so inviting of interruption that we don't like to interrupt the possibility of our being interrupted.

: we use to trade good for goods, now we make and provide placebos in exchange for points in our bank accounts.

: "Beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. It can spontaneously arise at any moment given the right circumstances, point of view and context. Beauty is thus an altered state of consciousness, an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace. It can be a rousing symphonic climax, or just the way the light catches the edge of a rusty old trash can. To seek beauty is to have the willingness, the inclination and the impetuous desire for this chance encounter to transpire. IF you look at history, great art expands the way we see; uplifting the human spirit from the barbaric and thrusting it toward the numinous." The Director

just created a piece for QL2's playhouse season!!

: how would stairs be different had we remained quadrupeds?

: we think with the tools we have.

: "most great ideas come into the world half baked, more hunch than revelation."

: philanthrocapitalism!?

: Don’t confuse intelligence with education.

: innovative systems gravitate towards the "edge of chaos": the fertile zone between too much order and too much anarchy.

Strive

: should we expect (or even try) to enjoy each 'art' we encounter?

: we have biology then we have culture.

: Top performers play an entirely different game.

: "rejection is often arbitrary and impersonal, so if you take it as a reason to be somebody you’re not, you’re making a mistake." - Dennis Palumbo

: "Determining an identity is a strong human need. The questions is, do you have to define yourself in opposition to others, or can you use different tools for that?" - Damien Jalet

: "an idea is not a single thing. It is more like a swarm"

: if you earn over $47,500US per year - you are "the 1%"

: "Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity; gilt in Gorilla Glass and cadmium. And in them we find entertainment in lieu of happiness, and exchanges in lieu of actual connections."

: www.globalrichlist.com

: pre-masticated art

: A good idea is a network. A specific constellation of neurons - thousands of them - fire in sync with each other for the first time.

: "The tree is within the seed" - via Angela Goh

: great acts are made up of small deeds.

Downsizing

: "for anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history, perhaps most - it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous.
If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater."

: Anyone can consume. Few can produce.

: cultivating opportunity.

: there is no such thing as cool. Just follow your enthusiasms honestly.

: temper your anger with nature and exercise.

: "often times, the issue isn’t a lack of ambition: It’s a lack of direction."

: confusing urgent with important..?

Pinhead

: "most of the harm inflicted by man upon his environment, his fellows and himself, is due to greed. Most of the greed, wether it be for power, property, attention, or affection, is due to insecurity. Most of the insecurity is due to fear. And most of the fear is, at bottom, fear of death." Tom Robbins

: we are often better served by connecting ideas than protecting them.

YMCA

: I want to find new artistic ways to express the frailty of self-perception and show that the way we see the world and ourselves is not accidental, it is designed and biased, and that it is only beyond our control while it remains beyond our awareness.

: Facilitating intrigue

: I fight against apathy and sloth, no longer against an invading army and their subsequent culture, but against a fading of our defining cultural attributes into a sea of distraction and inaction.