December 2011
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Merry Christmas!
Hope you all had a wonderful year so far and the coming days leading to the new year are great for you.
Will probably be taking a break from posting on here for a couple of days.
Wishing you all again happy holidays.
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the more we possess, the more distant we grow from god
– (via love-less)
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Horihata is unwavering in his admiration of Kawakubo, yet admits that his...
– Rei vs. Yohji (via itwonlast)
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Infinite Stupidity →
itwonlast:
A Talk With MARK PAGEL
A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we’ve seen. And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What’s happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we’re being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We’re being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us...
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I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to...
– Haruki Murakami (via apathie)
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Originally, people sucked young girls raw to extract sweetness. Early methods involved grinding or pounding young girls. In 1813 the British chemist Edward Charles Howard invented a method of pounding young girls that involved a closed vessel heated by steam and held under partial vacuum.
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OBIA, THE THIRD: The Color That Wasn’t a Color →
tobia:
“In art, black was never basic.”
by Ann Landi for ARTNEWS (November 2011).
Of all the colors artists have had at their command throughout the ages, none has endured more reversals of fortune than black. Indeed, in his book Black: The History of a Color, published by Princeton…
The Overjustification Effect →
itwonlast:
The Misconception: There is nothing better in the world than getting paid to do what you love.
The Truth: Getting paid for doing what you already enjoy will sometimes cause your love for the task to wane because you attribute your motivation as coming from the reward, not your internal feelings.
Money isn’t everything. Money can’t buy happiness. Don’t live someone else’s dream....