Category: Inspiration

A remarkably prescient 24-year-old piece of writing from J.G. Ballard.

Toni Morrison on critical thinking, hope, and a reminder that we don’t have to accept the labels bestowed upon us by others.

Neil Gaiman on the breaking the rules, the fraud police, fantastic mistakes, and making good art.

Born in 1880 in Genoa, this engineer and architect, had grand designs indeed.

Old words, new wordplay and why I think Susie Dent is the best thing on Twitter.

Vincent Bal is a filmmaker and illustrator. In his series, Shadowology, he uses the shadows cast by everyday objects to turns the mundane into something magical.

A community on reddit are buying undeveloped rolls of film, and sharing the photos they find.

Maria Popova on the dangers of self-comparison, our preoccupation with destruction (as opposed to construction), and the importance of fighting cynicism.

Nicholas Rougeux is a Chicago-based web designer and artist. In Literary Constellations he visualises novels as star maps.

David Foster Wallace on consciousness, compassion, and deciding what to pay attention to.