click click – 01-07-12
Welcome to click click, the sporadic review of what I find worth clicking on the internet.
These striking photos record how student demonstrators in Montreal are wearing the red square as a symbol of the right to gather in protest, and access to to higher education. See more and learn more at Worn Journal.
- How To Do What You Love – a classic essay on enjoying your work. I found the contrary attitude towards prestige intriguing. For more on this topic, Neil Gaiman’s commencement address is well worth listening to. Hat tip to ever-helpful Nextness.
- Meg Mosley – I’ve been following Meg on twitter for a while, just enjoying how she is always agog. At first I thought she was just a very enthusiastic person, until I checked out her site and learned that she is an artist with intriguing ideas about trans-generational celebration and small-town aspirations. I’m looking forward to watching the documentary she’s making about her stylish granny.
- Cat Marnell Does Not Give A Shit – a rare beauty writer with a personality continues to fascinate, but for how long? Marnell isn’t good because she does drugs – she’s good because she’s smart and realized that in the boring world of beauty “what people really want to see right now is someone who’s being honest about being a complete mess.” But now that her column is in the trashcan that is Vice, it is virtually unreadable if you are sober.
- An Effort to Bury a Throwaway Culture One Repair at a Time - as a mindful mender myself, this is my kind of social movement. Discovered via ReWardrobe and Bridget Harvey.
- What The World is Listening To This Summer - the best way to rid your head of Call Me Maybe may be to listen to some alternate earworms. I especially enjoyed the Korean and Swedish jams. Found via Day 6.
Karma for karma’s sake…
- The Make Escape – a cute monthly craft social in Hackney that I’ve participated in a couple of times. Great way to meet new people and get your hands working on something other than a keyboard.
- vivart dream - “I’m an aspiring designer, author, actress, singer, and artist. In other words…Super Girl!”
- Awkward Stage – “amazing people are working on wonderful empires right in our own back yard”
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About how to do what you love: what holds most of us back is fear. Our entire education system sets us up for a stable 9 to 5. When we’re young, choosing our careers, we feel our whole lives at ahead of us so we have plenty of time to make money and do what we love in our spare time. But work often tires us out for many hobbies and after a while, we get comfortable with the routine. At that point, it’s really hard to give up the security. When we’re middle age, we don’t have to same appetite for risk or the energy for the hard work it takes to change course. So we get stuck. That’s why it’s so important when you’re young, to take many risks to chase your dreams, when there’s less to lose when you fall on your face. At the very worst, you can try your best to land a dream career, start a business, etc. and decide a 9-5 works better for you later.
Thanks for sharing-I really like these summary link posts-so much cool stuff all in one place. Oh and I thought you might find this cool. I really liked it (and I”m not a dubstep fan -in general) .
VVires, thanks for offering your thoughts, I totally agree! I’m actually working on an article for a magazine right now about this very subject.
theperfectnose – glad you enjoy… thanks for the link. I’m not a fan of robots usually but I do have a guilty affection for dubstep =)
Thanks for putting a link to my blog! That really means a lot to me (: