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Book cover for The Mixing Engineer's Handbook: 5th Edition
All art is built around tension and release, which is just another expression for contrast. Typically, contrast is big against small, fat against slim, wide against narrow, and black against white. In photography, contrast is reflected in ...more
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Ryan Holiday
“Let’s do what we can. Let’s be a small light in a dark world.”
Ryan Holiday, Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

Gore Vidal
“The unfed mind devours itself.”
Gore Vidal

“In a New York where people are reconceived as consumers, not citizens, it is most profitable to keep everyone moving and disconnected. This is what the hyper-globalized, ultracompetitive city looks and feels like. I saw the perfect word for it scrawled on a wall in the East Village: blandalism. Sleepwalking inside digital bubbles, the iZombies hustle through the city without looking. And you can’t really have compassion for a thing—or a person—without beholding it.”
Jeremiah Moss, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul

Alex Haley
“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
Alex Haley

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