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How To Steal Like An Artist

This is a must read for anyone who – in a broad sense – creates. To create meaning: turning ideas into reality. Austin Kleon, who made himself known for his brilliant Newspaper Blackout Poems, is providing us with a list, that he claims is essentially “me talking to a previous version of myself”. 10 things he wished he knew when we was younger. My favourite: “Fake it ‘til you make it”. I gladly repeat myself: this is a must read.

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From Weekly Filet #19, in May 2011.

The Filter Bubble

Let’s talk personalisation, not privacy. Perhaps the real issue is not how much the world gets to know about us, but about how little we get to learn about the world.

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From Weekly Filet #19, in May 2011.

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

One of the best books I’ve read in the past few years. A first-hand recollection of the depression that brought the author within an inch of suicide. Intense, gruelling, sad, eye-opening.

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From Weekly Filet #12, in March 2011.

Patrick Süskind: Der Kontrabass

A hilarious monologue of a (slightly frustrated) contrabass player. The book won’t take you more than two hours to read, but be prepared to not being able to put it down.

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From Weekly Filet #8, in February 2011.

Traumgedanken

A designer’s dream, a printer’s nightmare: A beautiful book on dreams, equipped with coloured threads, woven through the paper.

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From Weekly Filet #1, in January 2011.
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