Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
An Existential Life: The Critic as Artist, Oscar Wilde
Ernest: Must we go, then, to Art for everything?Gilbert: For everything. Because Art does not hurt us. The tears that we shed at a play are a type of the exquisite sterile emotions that it is the function of Art to awaken. We weep, but we are not wounded. We grieve, but our grief is not…
(Source: toniiu)
Listen to “Darkness”, a bluesy new track from Leonard Cohen’s forthcoming album, Old Ideas.
Handy stuff
Fundamentals Of Small Arms Weapons (1945) - Part 1 (by nuclearvault)
Great museumy resources
A quick Sunday evening post for those who like to spend their online time learning about the most diverse things.
Open Culture - a quick one stop shop for a wealth of online resources for language learning, interesting podcasts, free ebooks and classic films, etc.
Khan Academy - mostly…
Still good
Danzig - How The Gods Kill (by resbateman)
Paddy Johnson: Occupy Museums! Speaking out in front of the Cannons
OFFS. Really?
The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%. No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be tricked into accepting a corrupt hierarchical system based on false scarcity and propaganda concerning absurd elevation…
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It’s My Way - Buffy Sainte-Marie
High Dependency Unit - El True East from the album Crosschannel Multitap.
Directed by Richard Shaw and Sally MacDonald
