November 2011
“I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a...”
– Alan Watts (via theuniverseworks)
“All things are interrelated and interdependent; nothing exists in isolation. The...”
– Matthew Flickstein, Journey to the Center (via journeytoenlightenment)
“Many problems arise when your country’s legislature is consistently more...”
– MediaShift Idea Lab - DontBreakTheInternet: How The Web Became a Political Force vs. SOPA | PBS
Geoffrey: There is a big difference between free speech and the theft of goods or services. Rogue websites exist to benefit from the theft of others’ intellectual property—no one has provided even a single example of a rogue site that contains speech protected by the First Amendment. Indeed, these two priorities are consistent. The protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights...
MediaShift Idea Lab - DontBreakTheInternet: How... →
Tumblr took even more dramatic action as far as getting users’ attention, and redirected the roughly 500,000 daily unique visitors to Tumblr.com to a slick “call Congress” tool that dialed users, prompted them with talking points, and connected them to their representatives. I need to take a minute and let you marinate on Tumblr’s part in all of this. The service combines...
The Prose Poem
by Campbell McGrath
On the map, it is precise and rectilinear as a chessboard, though driving past you would hardly notice it, this boundary line or ragged margin, a shallow swale that cups a simple trickle of water, less rill than rivulet, more gully than dell, a tangled ditch grown up throughout with a fearsome assortment of wildflowers and bracken. There is no fence, though here and there a...
salvaricade62:
Gustavo Santaolalla - Babel
Gustavo Santaolalla - Desert bus ride
“كتاب مثل حديقة في الجيب
A book is like a garden in the pocket.”
– Moroccan proverb (via yesplease2)
“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via nirvikalpa)
firah:
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Libertango
Nacho López (Mexican, 1923-1986) Hands with cigarettes under cell door, Lecumberri Penitentiary, Mexico City, 1950 from the series “Prisión de Sueños” (Prison of Dreams / Prison de Rêves)
via luzfosca & regardintemporel
[arsvitaest: replaced the originally posted image with a less contrasted one found in the book Nacho López, Mexican photographer by John Mraz]
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison
by Nazim Hikmet [trans. by Mutlu Konuk and Randy Blasing] If instead of being hanged by the neck you’re thrown inside for not giving up hope in the world, your country and people, if you do ten or fifteen years apart from the time you have left, you won’t say, “Better I had swung from the end of a rope like a...
“He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with...”
– James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century, Dubliners (via amiquote)
“there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize...”
– Charles Bukowski, “oh yes”. war all the time: poems, 1981-1984 (via anotherword & liquidnight)
