Being An Artist in Trying Times

(via Brain Pickings)

Maya Angelou on the Freedom of Information

"Information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open."

"Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else. There may be details that are different, but a human being is a human being."

-Maya Angelou

Shenzen Documentary

Interesting documentary on the city of Shenzen, it's role as the "Silicon Valley" of hardware, and the novel markets that evolved in the city due to the proximity of high-tech skilled individuals and cheap electronics.

Gifted

Long sat on book idea...

A sophomore in high school shocks his opponent during the state high school basketball final game. This leads to a series of events opening him up to a new amazing world he is a part of. However just as he begins to feel accepted he realizes that there is more to this world than meets the eye. As tensions rise, and problems present themselves, Kevin finds himself, still a fledgling, at the center of it all.