
Weekly Roundup of Creativity | Issue #7
Short snippets from the past week of what drew my attention. What inspired. And what sparked thought. Here is my weekly roundup of creativity for the soul. I hope it sparks thought in your life as well.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
1. Watchtower of Turkey
Just saw this video the other day. And wow. I can’t believe I didn’t see it sooner. But maybe it’s just that you only truly see things when you need to see them.
This film was ahead of it’s time. It was created 4 years ago, and really redefined video in the age of YouTube and Vimeo.
The way the music, sound, and video is edited is breathtaking. It tells a story that encapsulates you. Telling a story that captures all senses and emotions.
2. Serena Williams x Virgil Abloh x Nike
“Last week, the French Tennis Federation drew outrage as its president Bernard Giudicelli claimed Williams’ catsuit didn’t show ‘respect’ to tennis nor the Roland Garros Stadium, where the French Open is held.
Giudicelli announced that the tournament, which Williams has won three times, is introducing a dress code to regulate players’ uniforms because ‘I think that sometimes we’ve gone too far’.”
Nike responded.
The world is built by people who “go too far”. They show us what is possible. They are the ones that are creating the future. Because they just do it. And Serena Williams has spent her entire life doing that.
Serena Williams responded the best way possible. She didn’t give attention to the critic. She made a statement through actions. She just went out and continued to just do it. She continued to be herself.
3. Will Smith on Fault vs. Responsibility
“It doesn’t matter whose fault it is that something is broken if it’s your responsibility to fix it…Taking responsibility is taking your power back.”
4. Against the Illusion of Separateness
“There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song — but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny…
Our original guiding stars are struggle and hope. But there is no such thing as a lone struggle, no such thing as a lone hope. In every human being are combined the most distant epochs, passivity, mistakes, sufferings, the pressing urgencies of our own time, the pace of history.”
Hope you enjoyed this weekly roundup of creativity, inspiration, and thought provoking substance.
Would love to continue the discussion. Comment your thoughts or what sparked thought in your life this past week!
