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crashinglybeautiful: forgottencorners: From deepseathoughts

crashinglybeautiful:

forgottencorners:

From deepseathoughts

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Rufus Wainwright - My Phone’s on Vibrate for You

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liquidnight: Chris Van Allsburg - The Third-Floor Bedroom “It all began when someone left the window open.” From The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

liquidnight:

Chris Van Allsburg - The Third-Floor Bedroom

“It all began when someone left the window open.”

From The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

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perfectdefect-input: spiraling electrons

perfectdefect-input:

spiraling electrons

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First, we will set up a single goal to represent educational success, which will take four years to achieve no matter what is being taught. We will attach a large economic reward to it that usually has nothing to do with what has been learned. We will urge large numbers of people who do not possess adequate ability to try to achieve the goal, wait until they have spent a lot of time and money, and then deny it to them. We will stigmatize everyone who doesn’t meet the goal. We will call the goal a “B.A.
– Charles Murray in an arresting piece on America’s absurd, outmoded, socioeconomically cruel university system (thanks dad!). While at Bard I’d not have understood his points; my time at LSU illustrated his thesis: for many students, the B.A. is an artificial goal, often unattainable and usually unrelated to their subsequent careers; it is, in most cases, a token reward for waiting and surviving in the back of the classroom for a few years while sinking deep into debt. Perhaps its primary function is to communicate that one was able to afford not to work for some years: a class badge. (via mills)

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crashinglybeautiful: Ralph Albert Blakelock - Moonlight, 1886-1895. Oil on canva

crashinglybeautiful:

Ralph Albert Blakelock - Moonlight, 1886-1895. Oil on canva

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crashinglybeautiful:ontheborderland: I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. —Og Mandino (via algo)

crashinglybeautiful:ontheborderland:

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

—Og Mandino

(via algo)

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Excited to learn that Scott Hansen of ISO50 and Tycho has an art show at Function 13 and a concert at Nocturne in Toronto

Excited to learn that Scott Hansen of ISO50 and Tycho has an art show at Function 13 and a concert at Nocturne in Toronto

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tumbledore: Drug deaths vs mentions in the popular press. Is this the result of or responsible for our absurd drug laws?

tumbledore:

Drug deaths vs mentions in the popular press. Is this the result of or responsible for our absurd drug laws?

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Paris. Shot taken from the Arc de Triomphe on a stormy day. (via Kat White)

Paris. Shot taken from the Arc de Triomphe on a stormy day. (via Kat White)

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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
–

Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to W. von Hulewicz

(via predatorywaspobserver) (via crashinglybeautiful)

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kateoplis: Nicholas Hughes

kateoplis:

Nicholas Hughes

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i need to make a list like this:

littlepotato:

q: what do you want to do most in the next two years?

a: hunt butterflies, especially certain whites, in the mountains of iran and in the middle atlas. quietly take up tennis again. have three new suits made in london. revisit landscapes and libraries in america. find a harder and darker pencil.

an interview with v. nabokov

from here.


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mills: Searchlights and anti-aircraft fire over Los Angeles. Late on February 24 and in the early hours of February 25, 1942, anti-aircraft guns in Los Angeles fired 1,400 shells at unidentified objects spotted in a sky illuminated by searchlights. Subsequently described as a false-alarm due to “war nerves,” the incident followed the shelling on February 23 of an oil-field near Santa Barbara by a Japanese submarine. Three civilians were killed by the anti-aircraft fire in the so-called Battle of Los Angeles. A contemporary radio broadcast can be heard here. I learned all this researching the movie they’re shooting a block from my house which, it appears, will be quite bad.

mills:

Searchlights and anti-aircraft fire over Los Angeles.

Late on February 24 and in the early hours of February 25, 1942, anti-aircraft guns in Los Angeles fired 1,400 shells at unidentified objects spotted in a sky illuminated by searchlights. Subsequently described as a false-alarm due to “war nerves,” the incident followed the shelling on February 23 of an oil-field near Santa Barbara by a Japanese submarine.

Three civilians were killed by the anti-aircraft fire in the so-called Battle of Los Angeles. A contemporary radio broadcast can be heard here. I learned all this researching the movie they’re shooting a block from my house which, it appears, will be quite bad.

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midnight-radio: Portrait of Astronomer Nikolaus Kratzer (detail). Hans Holbein the Younger, 1528.

midnight-radio:

Portrait of Astronomer Nikolaus Kratzer (detail). Hans Holbein the Younger, 1528.

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Rufus Wainwright - My Phone’s on Vibrate for You

"First, we will set up a single goal to represent educational success, which will take four years to achieve no matter what is being taught. We will attach a large economic reward to it that usually has nothing to do with what has been learned. We will urge large numbers of people who do not possess adequate ability to try to achieve the goal, wait until they have spent a lot of time and money, and then deny it to them. We will stigmatize everyone who doesn’t meet the goal. We will call the goal a “B.A."
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
i need to make a list like this:

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