Making Art With a Network Mindset

by sdfrost | Jan 24, 2019

Tasai members got together a couple of years back to talk about what we value, who we are. The result is the six words you find at the bottom of our front page: collaboration, bridge, connection, fusion, craft and catalyst. Under connection it says this: What kind of...

Art For The Art-curious

by sdfrost | Feb 12, 2016

Everyone is asking you to be creative, but you don’t feel very creative. “I need some art in my life,” you think to yourself. But art is kind of incomprehensible, intimidating even. First, if you’re a human being, you *are* creative. Second, you *do* need more art in...

Good grief!

by sdfrost | Oct 21, 2014

VIDEO: Oliver Burkeman: The Negative Path to Happiness and Success. @99u.com I wrote a book about lament, so I might be a bit biased, but I find grief and lament turning up a lot lately as important antidotes to many of the diseases of our modern western culture, not...

That’s WEIRD, I’m not feeling like myself.

by sdfrost | Oct 8, 2014

THE ARTICLE: We Aren’t the World by Ethan Watters. “The interdependent self—which is more the norm in East Asian countries, including Japan and China—connects itself with others in a social group and favors social harmony over self-expression. The independent...

Ecologies of Meaning

by sdfrost | Oct 1, 2014

To recap, even the best organizations are arrayed around instrumentality, doing something in the world. That doing something might be as noble as feeding the poor, but the relationships within that organization are, by necessity, instrumental and provisional. This is...

A still and graceful peace

by sdfrost | Sep 22, 2014

なつき先生, 書道のワークショップありがとうございました！Some things I learned at the brief workshop Natsuki did for us. 1. A very controlled style of calligraphy follows lots of strict rules, which is fairly self evident. 2. Artistic and fluid calligraphy isn’t just all fluid and...