#commonplace : an idea or expression wanting originality or interest
- French: cliché
- German: der Gemeinplatz
- Italian: topico
- Portuguese: trivial / lugar-comum
- Spanish: tópico
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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form
Has anyone used #Commonplace to respond to eg a local council survey? I'm trying to draw my ideal cycle route through town on a map and I've ended up just closing the tab as it's so difficult to do without constantly clicking where you don't mean to and so on, I've just lost patience with it. Their surveys are complicated enough - I never know how I ended up at a certain page or how to find all the bits of a survey. Shame, as I'd like to take part.
#commonplace : an idea or expression wanting originality or interest
- French: cliché
- German: der Gemeinplatz
- Italian: topico
- Portuguese: trivial / lugar-comum
- Spanish: tópico
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Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been admired by their own households.
[Tel a esté miraculeux au monde, auquel sa femme & son valet n’ont rien veu seulement de remerquable. Peu d’hommes ont esté admirez par leurs domestiques.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 3, ch. 2 “Of Repentance [Du repentir]” (1586) (3.2) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #attendants #commonplace #contempt #domesticity #familiarity #family #household #perspective #proximity #servant #valet
A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort
Men’s ideas are like card-playing or any other game. Ideas which in the past I’ve seen considered reckless have since become commonplace, almost trivial, and adopted by men unworthy of sharing them. Ideas which now seem extraordinary will be regarded feeble and perfectly ordinary by our descendants.
[Les idées des hommes sont comme les cartes et autres jeux. Des idées que j’ai vu autrefois regarder comme dangereuses et trop hardies, sont depuis devenues communes, et presque triviales, et ont descendu jusqu’à des hommes peu dignes d’elles. Quelques-unes de celles à qui nous donnons le nom d’audacieuses seront vues comme faibles et communes par nos descendans.]
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 145 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 115]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/742…
#quote #quotes #quotation #commonplace #concepts #convention #danger #expectations #ideas #normalcy #novelty #ordinary #passageoftime #revolution #statusquo #triviality
#commonplace : an idea or expression wanting originality or interest
- French: cliché
- German: der Gemeinplatz
- Italian: topico
- Portuguese: trivial / lugar-comum
- Spanish: tópico
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A quotation from Alfred Hitchcock
Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) English film director
In François Truffaut, Hitchcock: A Definitive Study [Le Cinéma Selon Hitchcock], ch. 4 (1966) [tr. Truffaut (1967)]
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hitchcock-alfred/189…
#quote #quotes #quotation #abridged #banal #boredom #commonplace #drama #dullparts #dullness #film #life #movie #mundane #story #storytelling
В Перми открылась новая независимая библиотека
В #Пермь открылась независимая #БиблиотекаДонКихота. В её каталоге есть книги либертарных издательств #DirectioLibera, #ЧёрныйКвадрат, #CommonPlace и др.
Адрес: улица Максима Горького, дом 64/1, цокольный этаж. Работает каждый день с 16 до 20 (кроме воскресенья).
https://avtonom.org/news/v-permi-otkrylas-novaya-nezavisimaya-biblioteka
#анархизм #АвтономноеДействие
Reading "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" by Roland Allen. Such a good book and curiously resonant with the modern digital age.
#zilbadone #commonplace
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2786
#Explore the #Darkest #Corners of the #Internet to #Understand #Real-#World #PoliticalViolence: Read an #Excerpt of #BlackPill by #ElleReeve
If you’ve been struggling to understand how we arrived here, with an #insurrection in our recent past and #politicalviolence becoming almost #commonplace, take an eye-opening journey with an award-winning #journalist who has breached the #digital and #reallife #spaces where #hate and #conspiracy coalesce.
Book # 2 of our thematic week:
Jillian M. Hess's study "How #Romantics and #Victorians Organized Information" examines #commonplace books, scrapbooks & albums as mediums of organizing knowledge & people, too!
#VictorianCulture #Romanticism #CulturalStudies #MaterialCulture
@Daniel_Levain I use this place as a #commonplace notes. If you visit the homepage of my site you'll see the banner saying so.
How do you keep a commonplace journal?
Why Do #NeoNazis Keep Getting #Arrested For #ChildSexualAbuseMaterial (CSAM)?
A surprising number of #farright #extremists have been #caught with some of the worst content imaginable, is this a #trend or is #CSAM just distressingly more #commonplace than most realize?
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
"Wastebooks in Space" buy #ArtFED
"In a world gone to shit, be an anachronism."
#JohnMastodon
https://botsin.space/@bitartbot/112065746926722342
#TTJ #BitArt #Collage #DigitalCollage #Wastebook #CommonPlace
"Wastebooks in Space" buy #ArtFED
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#TTJ #BitArt #Collage #DigitalCollage #Wastebook #CommonPlace
Does anyone here journal? Does anyone here always keep a commonplace or field guidebook with you?
What, if any, system do you use for your notes/journal?
What gear do you use: moleskin, field guides, or something else?
What's your pen/pencil of choice?
How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 14th Century's Answer to Tumblr - Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-keep-a-zibaldone-a-13thcentury-answer-to-tumblr
