May 2013
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“I didn’t watch the whole documentary. After a few episodes it was too painful....
– (via thepoetryfarm)
file under: relevant to my life.
(via fabthings)
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youmightfindyourself:
Vision Is All About Change
By SUSANA MARTINEZ-CONDE NY Times: May 17, 2013
YOUR eyes are the sharks of the human body: they never stop moving.
In the past minute alone, your eyes made as many as 240 quick movements called “saccades” (French for “jolts”). In your waking hours today, you will very likely make some 200,000 of them, give or take a few thousand. When you...
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What gets me through the night
ramen
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The Commencement Address
fishingboatproceeds:
Some people have asked to read the commencement address I delivered this morning to the 2013 graduates of Butler University. So here it is.
My own commencement speaker, who shall remain nameless, began with a lame joke about how these speeches only come in two varieties: Short and bad. This raised my expectations, and then he went onto speak for 26 minutes, so I’m just...
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Steven Soderbergh: The state of cinema
jkottke:
At the recent San Francisco Internation Film Festival, Steven Soderbergh gave a keynote about the current state of cinema. It is worth reading if you enjoy movies or are engaged in any sort of creative work.
But before we talk about movies we should talk about art in general, if that’s possible. Given all the incredible suffering in the world I wonder, what is art for, really? If the...
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Feeling a little blue today
But it’ll pass. I blame the overcast weather!
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April 2013
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And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to...
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF: mrstsk: If disco-glitz... →
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mrstsk:
If disco-glitz supermarket Super Tamade is my favourite place to grocery-shop at midnight… …a 5am shopping hop is more likely to see me at Oda — a catering-oriented cash-and-carry vast, empty and satisfyingly austere — in the Kizu market. What I like at Oda is the…
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