January 2011
45 posts
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Why are museums so uninspiring? →
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“In the 16th century, melancholia was the elective illness of the exceptional...”
– Alain Ehrenberg, from The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age.
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Nonfiction: Nabokov Theory on Butterfly Evolution... →
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“Philosophy is the question: from which side shall we look at life, God, the...”
– An excerpt from the 1919 Dada manifesto by Tristan Tzara
Monster Brains - a never-ending celebration of... →
Thurgarton History - a simple, beautifully... →
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Some letters of note →
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“He stood, a point
on a sheet of green paper
proclaiming himself the centre,
...”
– ‘Progressive Insanities Of A Pioneer’ by Margaret Atwood
One drawing for every page of Moby Dick →
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“If nothing matters, then there is nothing to save”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, quoting his grandfather
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UNDERWATER ATOMIC BOMB. SMALL WORLD ENERGY. NIGHT... →
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Ma Liang
See more: http://www.escapeintolife.com/artist-watch/maleonn/
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The Modernist Journals Project is a major resource... →
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Digital library of historical African American... →
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"BLESS ENGLISH HUMOUR. It is the great barbarous... →
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“I don’t want to be happy. I want to be unhappy but learn to live with it”
– Martin Creed, reviewing self-help books on The Review Show
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Five emotions invented by the internet →
“If understanding is in fact a process of unforgetting, then to consider the...”
– Adam Nicolson, The Colour of Time, Black Dog, September 2010
There's a new star sign - Ophiuchus - because the... →
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Street music and voodoo art in Haiti - an audio... →
A very large scale model of the universe →
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“Dessert is aspirational,” Yosses said, laying out... →
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Vintage Polish and Czech posters for Japanese... →
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“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”
– Albert Einstein
'Sideline Omniscience: a heightened sense of... →
Emily Dickinson's Herbarium - beautiful book scans... →
“No obituary is an island, entire of itself. They are all pieces of the...”
– Dominic Tierney, writing beautifully for The Atlantic. Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/a-secret-history-of-the-obituary-page/69164/
Vivian Maier - the 20th century's greatest lost...
See more of this incredible find at the Vivian Maier blog: http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/
Beautiful double exposure photography from Dan... →
You sure don't half find some weird stuff when you... →
“Spying is normality taken to the extreme”
– John Le Carre
MAKE NICK CLEGG DANCE →
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Wilde Dieren's Wild Animals
See more: http://wild-animals.nl/
Light describing a room: the beautiful... →
Toyah Willcox, an anchoress in 15th Century... →
“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself”
– E M Cioran, The History Of Decay
Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a... →
Cracking the Coca-Cola code →