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Reblogged from saatchionline.
Absent Minded
by Joe Webb
United Kingdom
Print: $35
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I love Louis C.K. His show, Louie, is something else. For most stories (the romantic comedy for example) there’s a common narrative. People fall in love, have a bad patch, and get back together. And soon enough, there’s a movement to resist that narrative by creating its opposite. For a while, that’s pretty new and exciting, but eventually the anti-narratives get cliche, too. What I respect most about Louis, as a storyteller, is that he tells common stories but in a way that I’ve never seen before.
And, like, he’s funny.
(Source: youtube.com)
I submitted my first Tumblr theme for approval. It’s essentially what you see here. Because of that, I should probably start using this again. So, yeah. I’m now using Tumblr again, after almost a year. Let’s see how it goes this time.
Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope →
This is currently throwing me through a loop.
Reaffirming that penguins are the world’s second-best animals, behind beavers, of course.
Tickling a Penguin [Original] (by zz111zzify)
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I’m thinking of starting a kitty, or maybe a riff on a Tontine. A bunch of writers working on projects each put in, say $200. Whoever does not produce the agreed upon amount of work by the predetermined deadline loses his or her $200, which is then divided among or between the writers who do make the deadline.
Fantastic idea. Now to find some more writerly friends.
Build a bigger version of one of these, strap me to it, and you’ll see a very, very happy man… strapped to a giant robotic bird.
Reblogged from nationalgeographicdaily.
Mahout Bathing and Elephant, India
Photograph by Mohit Midha
Watching a mahout lovingly bathe his elephant, I tried capturing the moment from the riverside but wasn’t satisfied with what I saw through the viewfinder. There was something lacking that made the image not do justice to the scene. I then climbed a tree with a branch extending out over the water and got my shot, which may have been my last as I almost fell off after taking it. I’m sure the beautiful elephant would not have been very happy about me falling out of a tree straight onto her stomach!
Kids! Listen to your music teachers when they say you’ll regret giving up on your instruments. You will regret it, someday. For me, that is today.
Mozart had only two children that managed to survive infancy. Neither of them married or had children of their own. The succession of all that talent faded in October of 1858. Somehow, I think both Karl and Franz knew they could not be as successful as their father, and that their children, too, would live in the shadow of his “curse.”
The real shame is not their lack of children, but rather the idea they were cursed in the first place. To be raised under the assumption that one can’t be successful on his own merits, and to die with it intact, must have been a terrible weight. It’s sad, not because we lost potential future generations of genius musicians, but because two men lived and died believing they had no self-worth.
Don’t forget that creativity is unbounded by any evidence to failure. It’s an individual pursuit. Creativity might be informed by the individual’s surroundings, but it always has the ability to grow far, far beyond.
