Stemming as it does from humanity, Art should lift our hopes no matter how often we might think twice about humanity.
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Sometimes I dont believe in human race. Art is the only hope for humanity.
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
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Glorious snow.
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The moon over Vending by Espen Haagensen. There is the distillation of reality here it seems.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is probably not for you.
A skywards look from my old MIami yard. Fishtail, Royal and Kentia palms all getting along with the Oaks and the Bamboos. Would that we all could too. #kruseville
Down a dark, winter-bitten street I ran into this sign in Hamburg, and for a moment all was good in the world.
If information was the answer, we would all be millionaires with six-packs.
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“The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.”
— Margaret Bourke-White
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The Art of Atari -- a time machine back to a simpler, perhaps more beautiful time.
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Petri Damstén has an old air raid shelter as a photo studio.
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If I was a ghost I wouldn’t waste time haunting people, I’d go exploring jungles, reefs, distant seas, mountaintops, without worry of dying.
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I haven't grown tired of anticipating a better world.
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"Hyperpetals," oil on canvas by Eduardo Ford
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My friends Reed and Kat Horth started "Comic Kids" in 2020 to teach underprivileged kids about art through weekly illustration classes. Two days ago "Comic Kids" was featured on the Kelly Clarkson Show.
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All advice cancels out. When someone says you have to do something a certain way I just laugh. Tiny did the opposite of what all the conventional 'success' advice would tell you.
Don't take it too seriously. There are no rules.
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Definitively the side quests.
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Is life more about the main quest or all the side quests?
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German bullet trains kiss at Berlin's central station.
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Vittorio goes on a quick tour of planned obsolescence.
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Was told the vacation AI chatbot at usevacay.com/chatbot was particularly special in sorting out travel/exploration options but it turned out far inferior than simply using Google.
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Why not a bathtub in the living room?
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Jorge Luis Borges by Yury Kharchenko
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"Breathe In The Air," oil on canvas by Eduardo Ford
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Coltrane's diagram relating mathematics to music. At a quick glance it's the circle of fifths.
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ChatGPT - Mansplaining as a service.
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In the subway, the sprawl of graffiti, like old letters left by ghosts.
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“There’s no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side.”
- Johnny Cash
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In long-drawn moments of dusk
Shadows are bold companions
Birds grow silent and keep night’s secrets.
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Yemeni artist Boushra Almutawakel, "What if," 2008.
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We know that we come from the winds, that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us love one another, work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world sorrow.
E.M. Forster
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I just saw "Destino" the six-minute long animation collaboration between Dali and Disney. Recommended.
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In SIX WORDS or fewer, write a story about a pen whose ink brings every story to life.
#sixwordstory #6words #writingprompt #storytelling #authors
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