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Learnvest.com

This site began in 2009 to help younger people transition from simply budgeting to actually planning for the future with goals to invest. Everyone has to grow up some time, this is an easy way to start.

Ooh La La

If you’re over 30, this feeling will become as familiar to you as your own shadow. Faces perfectly express how hindsight is, indeed, 20/20.

Tiny House Living

We’re taught to value space above all in our homes and apartments, but that isn’t always what we need. This blog look at another way of thinking.

Technology and Productivity

This report from NPR gives the latest findings of how our increased reliance on technology effects our productivity and what it might mean for society.

How to Speak About Money

Breakdown the language of economics and finance, so the confusion about what is actually happening during recessions and scandals does not turn to fear.

The New Mecca

Anyone can go to Dubai and be awed, but only George Saunders write about with such weird humor.

Utopia or Bust

Benjamin Kunkel wrote a hit novel and then seemingly disappeared in Argentina. He has reemerged as a socialist and with an interesting look of the 2008 financial crisis.

Post-It Curtain

Photojournalist Theodore Kaye took this shot at the ‘Lennon Wall’ in Hong Kong during the recent protests, but it reminds us of what it feel like between our ears sometimes.

Hustle to Survive

Les McCann sings about a lesson we all know, but sometimes it’s easier to get your hustle on when you have the proper soundtrack.

Credit for Idiots

Does even the thought of credit scores get you down? Stop being a scaredy cat and get some knowledge. It has been known to help in these situations.

The American Way

Sasha Abramsky looks at poverty through the social attitudes and public policy that involve us all.

9 to 5

If you’re on the planet and have a job, you’ve likely woken up, jumped out of bed only to realize your boss is actively working against you (or at least it feels that way). Sing it, Dolly.

Homeless

Jeffries photographs homeless citizens around the world. His shots are haunting reminders of the have nots and those that have been forgotten on the fringes of society.

Bombay Beach

Alma Har’el’s abstract and beautiful film about the Salton Sea – the depressed, apocalyptic result of an American financial boom.

Persuasion

Jane Austen might be dismissed by some as an author preoccupied by love, but since all of her stories delve into the relationship between class and love, she often finds herself talking more about finances than sweet nothings.

Hester Street Market

Lower East Side of Manhattan has seen a lot. Now it is host to hipsters and yuppies alike, but it took a century of toil and trouble to get there.

I Need a Life

Ever wake up with the thought: if I’m so smart and capable, why am I so bad at life? This song is for you.

Iron Sky

Maybe it’s The Great Dictator quote right in the middle, but you can hear the impending doom we all feel about life in this song. You don’t get many message songs anymore, so it’s refreshing to hear a balladeer like Paolo Nutini be so forceful.

Liberatum

This video asks how culture, society, and technology continue to affect creativity. A worthwhile question to ask in our own lives.

Tanned, Leggy Companion

There is a lot to enjoy in this, so here is something to get you started: “The writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don’t do anything with it, you lose it.”

The Melting House

This wax instillation of a life size home will be manually melted over 30 days to celebrate the history of the neighborhood where it now resides. Form your own opinion about what it all means.

Gene Wilder on Truth

In this snippet from PBS’ Blank on Blank, Wilder gives some very wise advice from his childhood and explains why sometimes staying at home is the best.

Bonjour

We put words to so many things, sometimes it’s good just to appreciate and get lost in the image. French illustrator Anne Brugni takes her collage work to the next level in this book.

Jump Into the Fire

This might remind you of an unforgettable scene from Goodfellas, but there’s so much more in this very contained ode to insanity.

Silk Pavilion

Professor Neri Oxman created a thing of magnificent beauty by combining digital and natural resources. Try not to be awed by this video.

Lunar Module

Sachs’ art project Space Program recreated many of the objects of the Nasa era using households items and a sense of humor including this lunar module that comes replete with a vodka bar.

Family Books

You won’t find this catalog of books and prints on Amazon. This store is a great place to get lost and discover what you didn’t even know exists.

Write It Down

Famous authors on the creative benefit in keeping a diary. All stories start with a single word.

CabinetMagazine.org

This isn’t US Weekly or even the New Yorker, it’s the LSD of magazines. Highly intellectual think pieces to contemporary poetry to weird links on Lego art, Cabinet has it all. If it doesn’t open your third eye, nothing will.

Wavelength

Working together is sometimes the only way things actually come together – chemistry between two parties can be more powerful than individual genius.

Blockitecture

Play around with these blocks designed to push your boundaries and come up with your next great idea.

Longform

When you can’t think of anything you want to work on yourself, maybe it is time to see what other people are working on, studying and debating…

Pyramids

Want to feel like you’ve taken drugs without the actual drugs? This song is perfectly expansive and experimental like all art that inspires and gets you thinking.

Nadine

So much of music is predictable that when you find something strange and erratic like this tribute from Fool’s Gold, you can’t soon forget it.

Purple Rain

This song came out of nowhere and loudly announced it’s own greatness. Over 8 minutes long and heavy on inspiration, Prince teaches a great lesson: just do whatever you want to do…that’s the point of creativity.

Confetti System

Design team Confetti System does handmade paper installations that will take your breath away and remind that you can awe with the simplest of materials.

I Believe

Stevie Wonder has so much excess creativity maybe he should pass some around to the rest of us.

Idea Porn

A plane, a long flight, great thinkers and big problems…filmmaker Tiffany Shein gives a glimpse at what could be possible.

New Perspectives

Before all the beautiful weirdness that was the film career of Stanley Kubrick, he was a young man with a tremendous photographic eye. This book is a treasure.

Skillshare.com

Every brain can fall prey to cobwebs. This online learning service is easy and affordable. You can learn everything from hand drawn typography to how to run your own business, and all the classes are taught by people actually working in the industry.

Street Photoshop

Kalen Holloman take snippets from magazines, and with nothing more than her hands and a camera makes them come to life. We should all be so resourceful.

Kill Joy

Ken Robinson explains why creativity needs to be nurtured in our schools, not tamped out.

What We Know

Conceptual artist Jenny Holzer’s project began as a distillation of a reading list in college, but grew into so much more.

Know Wave

Listen to back hours of Know Wave radio – music, chatter and all things random – taped in NYC’s West Village.

Ten Rules for Writers

Israeli author Etgar Keret relays his ten rules for writers, they are so simple they might actually startle you. Pick up a pen and get to work.

De Kooning on Women

The artist describes the inspiration of his most famous paintings – the origin of which is as sexual as you knew, but a lot sillier as well.

Freak Out

Former member of Moldy Peaches Green now creates wild and wonderful paintings as well as an original production entitled Aladdin.