Flickr as a reference tool, Penguin books . Book collection . Design books . Business cards . etc

Good to see Marc Newson hasn’t totally disappeared, he’s now Qantas Creative Director. I wonder if he gets free flights?

From Kabuki – the alchemy #5 by David Mack.

I’ve always thought it curious that the U.S. has in its Declaration the words “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.

Buddha said to “cultivate peace, joy and bliss”. Not happiness. Happiness is an illusion attached to the material world. The pursuit of happiness is a trap to get you caught in the cycle of the material world.

If you pursue happiness, you become miserable. Because you are never filled. When you pursue the material world, your heart and mind are not occupying the spiritual world. But if you embrace the immediate challenge of your true calling, even when it involves difficulty and self-discipline…

Happiness occurs as a by-product.

The world is an illusion. It operates backwards than most are conditioned to believe.

Love,
Akemi

It might be ironic that the “happiest” man in the world, Matthieu Ricard, is a Buddhist monk pushing the happiness mantra in his new book, Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill.

We Feel Fine.

I just want to say that Today Tonight on channel 7 is a slurry of a show, their story tonight titled “Vietnamese Sting” targeting a dodgey Brisbane business man with a sweeping title like that is just stupid and wrong, bordering on racism. How can you generalise a whole community like that and focus on one person? It opens the doorway for misconceptions and I feel the behaviour of one man does not represent a whole community. I’m just offended. Investigate this man all they want and expose him, I’m not against that at all, dodgey people deserve the full force of the law onto them, don’t bring racial background into it. TT = Tabloid Trash.

Seeing as how people can blast their ashes into space, would it be lame if Hollywood made a movie where a mysterious but advance alien race found these ashes and began cloning the dead and sent them back to earth as mind controlled asassins.

An old interview of one of my design heroes. His last anwser of the interview is classic Paul Rand.

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