Category: philosophy

  • Alchemy and Architecture in DTLA

    Jeff Hoke and The Museum of Lost Wonder come to Los Angeles for the Brewery Artwalk

    The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and who lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

    Albert Einstein (a reminder from The Museum of Lost Wonder)
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  • Motorcycle Maintenance and an Inquiry Into Values

    Recently it was time for something of an overhaul on the motorcycle. This time, I thought that it might also be a good time to revisit Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (it’s been — well, decades since I last picked it up) … while doing some wrenching!

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