my new canvas

tumblelog of pravin isram

a scrapbook, notebook and workspace for ideas

Nov 20
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“ save some money, buy a house, and get married.
[me: “and then what”]
and then you have children
— my mum 19/11/09 :)
Nov 18
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Dear Twitter, Thank you. Pravin twitter.com/pravinisram

Dear Twitter,

Thank you.

Pravin

twitter.com/pravinisram

Nov 02
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“ Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
— Carl Jung
Oct 27
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i got my Google Wave invite today and saw this video and thought it was useful.

Oct 16
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“ Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way.
The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t.
It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
— Barack Obama
Oct 12
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I really liked watching this

Sep 22
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our last day together in Santiago, just as we were on our way to the airport to head off in our own separate directions. (Santiago, Chile - 29/03/09)

our last day together in Santiago, just as we were on our way to the airport to head off in our own separate directions.

(Santiago, Chile - 29/03/09)

Sep 06
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“ I find this sound quality stuff both fascinating and ridiculous. It’s like the pixel resolution of digital cameras: higher numbers are better, but that discussion always pushes the actual photography to one side, somehow.
— Jonny Greenwood, on the sound quality of recorded music which can be found here!
Aug 25
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“ Humility… it amounts to a clear recognition of what and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt to become what we could be.
Aug 09
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“When you think that you are done… you are only 40% into what your body is capable of doing… and that’s just a limit that we put on ourselves” - David Goggins