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In “Weathering the Books,” her survey of personal reading history, Rebecca Martin surmises that for her “reading is seasonal…intensely seasonal.” She goes on: Don’t you know December is for dark fantasy and Victorian novels? The likes of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Jane Eyre, Bleak House. Fall is for The Fellowship of the Ring — [...]
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An article by Stephanie Rosenbloom on The New York Times, published on September, 9, 2011: Authenticity seems to be the value of the moment…… The word has been bandied about for ages, be it by politicians or Oprah Winfrey, who popularized the notion of discovering your “authentic self” in the late 1990s after reading Sarah [...]
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Music from a Dry Cleaner by Diego Stocco, posted on Behance Network Whoa, this guy makes awesome music from the everyday, here, from a dry cleaner. Totally inspiring and fun!
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David Manconi from Stanford Magazine reports on a new approach to philosophy: Knobe is one of the leading lights of a new field called experimental philosophy, or “x-phi” for short. These scholars use the tools of social science—they devise questionnaires, go out and conduct surveys, gather data—and then try to figure out what philosophical truths [...]
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Once, when I had filled every page of a journal I wrote in, I decided to make the leap into keeping a journal on my computer. I thought that it would be equal to the paper journal, and I wouldn’t have to worry about losing it if the new electronic journal stayed tucked away safely [...]
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Hi everyone, I just wanted to share this beautifully melancholic animation that I came across, directed by Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein. It seems to strike a deep core of human nature/desire. Won’t say much…Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Balance-An Exclusive Oscar Winning Cartoon (1989) on YouTube
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Andy Crouch from Culture Making asks: 1. What does Photoshop assume about the way the world is? 2. What does Photoshop assume about the way the world should be? 3. What does Photoshop make possible? 4. What does Photoshop make impossible (or at least a lot more difficult)? 5. What new culture is created in [...]
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Having a tough day? Find what some of history’s most inspiring people had said here (by Jason Kottke at http://kottke.org). You are not alone.
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An engaging article on found on The Independent by Jay Merrick: Now we are profoundly immersed in the tortuous, commercially controlled currents of postmodern design and thought, and its weapons of mass psychic deconstruction. Has this made our lives richer in meaning, or just richly vacuous? Modernism’s either/or mindset has been obliterated by this pervasive [...]
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Hello, check out this cool project The Reconciliation Dinner (2009) by artist Jennifer Rubell, who uses food as art medium, material, and a tool to convey meaning in her work. Here’s an excerpt from the statement: The Reconciliation Dinner was conceived to capture that liminal moment, the space between disagreement and agreement, between antagonism and [...]
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