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An enormous ice dam formed at the source of the Niagara River on the eastern shore of Lake Erie on March 29, 1848. Just after midnight, the thunderous sound of water surging over the great falls at Niagara came to a halt as the flow of water became severely restricted due to the ice jam. The eerie silence persisted throughout the day and into the next evening until the waters of Lake Erie broke through the blockage and resumed their course down the river and over the falls.The day Niagara Falls stood still.
If you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this and soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite.
Virginia Woolf, who took her own life on March 28, 1941, on the art of reading (via explore-blog)
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The Me Bird: Animation by 18bis
Jason Jose, faithistorment.comThe Me Bird: Animation by 18bis
A free interpretation of a poem by Pablo Neruda using a strata stencil technique.The inspiration in the strata stencil technique helps conceptualize the repetition of layers as the past of our movements and actio…
This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can’t grasp it.
Henry Miller (via explore-blog)
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which platform?
a very young passenger asks a station attendant for directions, on the railway platform at bristol, england, 1936. photo by george w. hales.
Vladimir Nabokov por Philippe Halsman
Véase Música en Ignoria (De Cuentos completos. Trad. María Lozano)
I think the human condition is just baffling for everybody. We are alive for a few decades in a universe that is 15 billion years old and vast beyond our imagining. We define ourselves as having a fixed age of 30 or 40 years when the truth is that at a quantum level there is no part of you that is less than 15 billion years old.
Music provides us with a strange self-generated celebration of the human condition in the face of a universe that is ancient and vast beyond our understanding.
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For me, music is an end unto itself but also a way of representing every aspect of the human experience. You can represent joy, despair, confusion, anger and so on.
Moby, who knows that we are all stardust, on the role of music in the human experience.
Complement with David Byrne on how music works.
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“Sex and the Single Girl,” “Fear of Flying,” and more recommendations for the perfect read for Women’s History Month.
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