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lol wtf (via ministryoftruth) “What if…”...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:40:00 -0700

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“What if…” Movies reimagined for another time & place

cabinporn: Hackney Shed by Office Sian in London, England.

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:30:40 -0700

cabinporn:

Hackney Shed by Office Sian in London, England.

"A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false..."

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:55:35 -0700

““A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.””

- G.I. Gurdjieff (via heartmindawakening)

"Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable..."

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:55:39 -0700

“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they’re alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of.”

- Rachel Naomi Remen (via commondense)

via curiositycounts (via)

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:31:03 -0700

via curiositycounts (via)

"It’s human nature to love what we don’t have."

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:51:09 -0700

“It’s human nature to love what we don’t have.”

- Geordi La Forge

Exploding Dog (via 22 Words)

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:46:00 -0700

Exploding Dog (via 22 Words)

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Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:01:15 -0700

(via itsokaytobesmart)

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he..."

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:23:54 -0700

“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”

- Einstein on the ties of sympathy, from the timelessly brilliant Ideas and Opinions. (via explore-blog)

"You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent..."

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:01:00 -0700

“You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.”

- Robert Anton Wilson

sexpigeon: Plastic, dried out and ready to snap apart, the...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:19:53 -0800

sexpigeon:

Plastic, dried out and ready to snap apart, the smell and discoloration of it is a thing from a different time. From 1981 or so. Your pool toys, your decaying walkie-talkie, the leatherette of your dashboard. It’s a different entropy, now. An oilier one, with linseed fumes. Smell your old iPod. See?

"Nearly all of art history is about trying to identify the source of value in cultural objects. Color..."

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:05:02 -0800

“Nearly all of art history is about trying to identify the source of value in cultural objects. Color theories and dimension theories, golden means, all those sort of ideas, assume that some objects are intrinsically more beautify and meaningful than others. New cultural thinking isn’t like that. It says that we confer value on things. We create the value in things. It’s the act of conferring that makes things valuable. Now this is very important, because so many, in fact all fundamentalist ideas, rest on the assumption that some things have intrinsic value and resonance and meaning. All pragmatists work from another assumption: No, it’s us. It’s us who make those meanings.”

- Brian Eno in Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology – a collection of cutting-edge thinking from the past 15 years. (via explore-blog)

"I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all..."

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:04:01 -0800

““I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know.””

- C.G. Jung, near the end of his life, in Memories, Dreams, Reflections” (via heartmindspirit)

1982: Banksy on Advertising - via Signalnoise.com

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:08:03 -0800

1982:

Banksy on Advertising - via Signalnoise.com

"Once we’ve thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it’s only here that the new and..."

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:54:44 -0800

“Once we’ve thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.”

- Leo Tolstoy (via Monoculture: How Our Era’s Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives | Brain Pickings)

"Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you..."

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:56:23 -0800

“Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like.”

- Paul Graham and others on how to find your purpose and do what you love. (via explore-blog)

"Introversion — along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness — is now a second-class..."

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:06:17 -0800

“Introversion — along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness — is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women living in a man’s world, discounted because it goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality trait, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.”

- Susan Cain in Quiet, one of 7 great books by TED 2012 speakers. (via curiositycounts)

pitchfork: In 2009, Claire Boucher— aka Grimes— tried to sail...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:01:14 -0800

pitchfork:

In 2009, Claire Boucher— aka Grimes— tried to sail down the Mississippi River in a DIY houseboat dubbed the Velvet Glove Cast in Iron. Apparently.

Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business (by...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:30:23 -0800

Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business (by schavira) (via bb)

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lol wtf (via ministryoftruth) “What if…”...

cabinporn: Hackney Shed by Office Sian in London, England.

"A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false..."

"Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable..."

via curiositycounts (via)

"It’s human nature to love what we don’t have."

Exploding Dog (via 22 Words)

(via itsokaytobesmart)

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he..."

"You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group﻿ of nearly omnipotent..."

sexpigeon: Plastic, dried out and ready to snap apart, the...

"Nearly all of art history is about trying to identify the source of value in cultural objects. Color..."

"I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all..."

1982: Banksy on Advertising - via Signalnoise.com

"Once we’ve thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it’s only here that the new and..."

"Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you..."

"Introversion — along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness — is now a second-class..."

pitchfork: In 2009, Claire Boucher— aka Grimes— tried to sail...

Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business (by...

"You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent..."