June 2012
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“There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people...”
– - Ryan Adams (via thecybrarian)
May 2012
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April 2012
7 posts
March 2012
1 post
Watchguardian:
How does the brain create consciousness?
Ahead of a debate on the nature of consciousness at the Royal Institution on Wednesday 7 March – Consciousness: The Hard Problem? – Alok Jha interviewed the protagonists for the Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast: Dr Anil Seth, co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at Sussex University; Professor Chris Frith, professor...
February 2012
4 posts
Essential. I’m constantly rabbiting on about...
John Cotton Dana’s 12 Rules for Reading
nevver:
1. Read 2. Read. 3. Read some more. 4. Read anything. 5. Read about everything. 6. Read enjoyable things. 7. Read things you yourself enjoy. 8. Read, and talk about it. 9. Read very carefully, some things. 10. Read on the run, most things. 11. Don’t think about reading, but 12. Just read. Libraryland
January 2012
3 posts
An Existential Life: The Critic as Artist, Oscar... →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
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…
December 2011
2 posts
Great museumy resources →
museumsandstuff:
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…
November 2011
4 posts
October 2011
9 posts
Paddy Johnson: Occupy Museums! Speaking out in... →
OFFS. Really?
paddyjohnson:
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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September 2011
3 posts
Word of the day
Geberated. I don’t know what it means, but my spell check says it’s ok. Posted via email from reevesy’s preposterous | Comment »
How to skin an elephant
“If someone comes at you and says, ‘You skin an elephant one leg at a time’ — they’ve never skinned an elephant,” he tells us. “You do whatever’s exposed, then you bring in a tractor and a loader and move it and you do something else.” How did an elephant end up in his front yard? Dennis shrugs. “People come to you sometimes when...
August 2011
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All That Is Interesting: The Town Where Everyone... →
All that is wrong - many of the images below are from WW2 - the main image is by Victor Bulla, of children in Leningrad, 1937…
all-thats-interesting:
The age old adage home is where the heart is finds its true meaning in Miyakejima, a small island located in southeast Japan. Despite the high level of volcanic activity that causes poisonous gas to leak from the earth that forced the...
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July 2011
5 posts
Easiest city in world to be killed in a road...
Pork dumplings and kungfu oolong tea in the Old Shanghai tea house, tripping out to the kitchy Bund sightseeing tunnel, a 2pm dance part on the roof of an observatory, Sichuanese tofu. Socks worn through.
June 2011
11 posts
