Apple Terminology defining the themes in Art and Design for our time:
evolution
singular shape
few
precise
obsession
simplify
improve
enclosure
embedding
disappear
refinement
unity
efficiency
uninterrupted form
intricate geometries
seamlessness
prestine
maximum saturation
part of the surface itself
As you know … we created dogs through human-selection in breeding of wolves.
A Russian scientist repeated the process with foxes, more controlled, so he accomplished it in 50 years and he created a breed of foxes that are domestic and friendly.
When we understand evolution, the options are limitless.
How does that help stabilize the region and the world?!
The more military support to a country in defiance of UN resolutions, human rights, and international law, which is in confrontational stance with most of its neighbors and half of its population, occupying land and denying people the right to self-determination … Building illegal settlements on occupied lands, and continues to practice religion and ethnic racism and apartheid … the more to increased anti American sentiment in the world.
The more Anti American Sentiment, the more terrorism and instability.
The only Pressiential candidate understanding this is Jill Stein
“It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough. It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.” Steve Jobs
College education is another layer of ignorance, but what is worse, combined with arrogance.
“Sometimes, without realizing it, we use our most treasured values as an excuse to avoid the discomfort of actually leading.”
“Powerful, often invisible behavioral, social and cultural forces can cause leaders to espouse the infallible importance of unexamined virtues.”
“Some say good enough is for wimps, losers and cop-outs. But we set a trap for ourselves when we expect excellence in everything.”
“When leaders tolerate more playful experimentationon the path to a destination defined by excellence,they increase the chances that people will stay engaged and produce truly distinguished work.”
“Prioritizing team goals over individual goals means that when one person slacks off, someone else has to do additional work in order to prop up the low performer.”
“There is no greater danger to productivity than the standing committee meeting – a team for the sake of a team, a meeting for the sake of a meeting.”
“Leaders should collaborate only when they must.”
“How you construct meaning is the single most important act of leadership that you can make.”
“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question.”
From Tipping Sacred Cows by Jack Breeden
Painting: “Lesende” by Gerhard Richter depicting the absence of his wife in reading in 1994, and now being watched by museum visitors completely submerged in their cellphones in 2016.
A teacher telling her students: “only God is perfect” is a breach of the principle, policy, and law of separation between Church and State.
Dear Dearborn Business person: The next time you are opening something in Dearborn, which is the highest concentration of Arab Speakers outside the Arabic world , here are some ideas other than a Barbershop, pharmacy, butcher, or grocery store:
1. Arabic themed cafe
2. Heritage desert life themed restaurant
3. Arabic music institute
4. Yoga place
5. Pottery place
6. Children cooking themed place
7. Arabic bookstore cafe
8. Egyptian cuisine restaurant
9. Moroccan cuisine restaurant
10. Bake your own Mankooshy place
11. Vegetarian only middle eastern cuisine restaurant
12. Fooul specialty place
13. Real Falafil specialty place
14. Arabic calligraphy institute
15. Arabic antique used and new shop
16. Painting with a Twist but arabic themed paintings
Etc…
Add other suggestions for them below.
Wissam Charafeddine 