Know your placement in life.
PRETTY PONDERINGS
The Things That Make My Days Better
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by: Johnny Miller
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air movement study,
Étienne-Jules Marey, 1901
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One headline reads “Berlin Wall comes tumblin’ down,” yet in the accompanying photograph the wall stands intact, with the Berliners dancing on top. What has changed is not the architecture of the wall, but the performance of the architecture- program and event.
Libeskind’s Practice of Laughter: An Introduction by Stanley Allen
The Raven
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Amazing photos, sad and absurd situation. “Anti-Islam Video” protests.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/09/anti-islam_video_protests.html
So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. —Dead Poets Society
Incredible movie.
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If he had not been so modest, Velazquez could have said about this painting what Zeuixis said about his beautiful Penelope, a work of which he was greatly satisfied: invisurum aliquem, facilius, quam imitaturum, that it would be easier to envy it than to imitate it.
from Lives of Velazquez by Francisco Pacheco and Antonio Palomino translated by Nina Ayala Mallory in reference to the Painting Las Meninas
[…] a well-articulated whisper can have an effect as great as, or greater than, a violent outburst.
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