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Bay of Naples
I miss this place :(
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People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
- Banksy
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Ponte Vecchio.
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Weeeeee! =)
psql:
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If you don’t understand the first part, skip to about 2:35 to get to the universal beauty of it. =)
tedx:
New from the TEDx Global Music Project:
Gato Urbanski and his three sons, Risco, Jaspe y Nagual, are street musicians in Buenos Aires. Aqualatica builds their own instruments and lives by doing what they love: playing classical and popular music by their own authorship.
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This is what I have found: to let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen; to love with our whole hearts, even though there’s no guarantee — and that’s really hard, and I can tell you as a parent, that’s excruciatingly difficult — to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, when we’re wondering, “Can I love you this much? Can I believe in this this passionately? Can I be this fierce about this?” just to be able to stop and, instead of catastrophizing what might happen, to say, “I’m just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I’m alive.
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I can’t promise my child a life without bias. But I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.
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Someday this will be in my living room. =)
Our Kind of Christmas Tree :)
(via Nathan Bush)
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Glamourous Grammar
– Glamourous Grammar, Fun fact from Kristin Denham’s Eng 436
The word glamour was first documented in the early 1700s. It comes from the Scottish gramarye, which meant ‘magic, enchantment, spell,’ which was a variant of the English word grammar, meaning, well, grammar, though at the time it had the more medieval sense of ‘any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning.’ (Grammar itself came from the Old French word gramaire, which meant simply ‘learning,’ but expanded to mean ‘(magic) incantation, spells, mumbo-jumbo.’ And if you want to go even further back, you’ll find that the French word came from the Latin grammatica, which came from the Greek grammatike tekhne, which mean ‘the art of letters,’ with a sense of both philology and literature. Gramma meant ‘letter,’ from the stem graphein, meaning ‘to draw or write.’) The word glamour was popularized by the writings of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). The sense of ‘beauty, alluring charm’ was first recorded in 1840.
