December 2011
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Nothing is Perpetual →
Dort geht es weiter.
Lyrik von mir, auf deutsch.
August 2011
2 posts
The Laughing Heart
your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there...
In my Craft or Sullen Art
In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor...
July 2011
3 posts
The older I get, the more I feel disconnected from reality, the more I feel that life is but a dream, a stream of consecutive memories.
June 2011
5 posts
An "anti-fan letter" sent to F. Scott Fitzgerald... →
scribnerbooks:
F. Scott Fitzgerald:
Sir – I have read your story, “Benjamin Button,” in Collier’s, and I want to say that as a writer you are a good lunatic. I have seen many big pieces of cheese in my time, but you are the biggest, and I don’t know why I waste this paper and my time on you, but I will.
Sincerely, Your Friend and Constant Reader.
[name redacted]
(via Conversations With F....
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May 2011
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February 2011
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“My goal this year is to prove natural selection on the show. It’s gonna...”
– Adam Savage (of Mythbusters) on proving natural selection over creationism on the show.
January 2011
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September 2010
6 posts
Aesthetics of Absence: Beyond the Clouds →
aestheticsofabsence:
taken with a Nikon F-601 at the 12th edition of the Architecture Biennale of Venice.
A German climate engineering firm and Tetsuo Kondo Architects have designed an architectural installation, Cloudscapes. The premise behind the architectural installation is that clouds are nature’s very…
Pacific Rim (Fog of Tofino) photo series →
mareen:
Look at these fucking dinosaurs. →
August 2010
3 posts
jordanpattern: BINGO! →
Have you ever wanted to have a handy dandy sheet of paper that would help you navigate those conversations? You know, the ones you have with “funny” omnivores? The ones where you wish you had a handy dandy sheet of paper to hold up in front of their faces and then punch them through a la three…
July 2010
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“I used to have students who bragged to me about how fast they wrote their...”
– Solitude - http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/ (via superamit)
June 2010
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“I look at what I write so that I can see what I think.”
– W. H. Auden
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May 2010
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“As a writer, I am trying to express those things that are most scary to me,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
A genius. If there was one book I had to learn by heart it would be “Extremly Loud and Incredibly Close”. Beats all the classics (Hemingway, Fitzgerald et al) for me.
Up There →
cameronmoll:
Beautiful 13-minute documentary on the (dying) art of large-scale sign painting. From one of the opening interviews:
This used to be the way all advertisements were put up on a big scale. And now, we’re in the vast minority. Just about everything is done on vinyl.
April 2010
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March 2010
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