“It’s very easy to look back at the past and see an inevitability, a purpose. But if you look closely that purpose evaporates, pops like the thin soap bubble it is. There are so many near misses in history that it’s amazing to think about where we are today and how we got here, all almost by chance.”
Good (but extremely annoying) to know.
…so Rudolph is drunk? (via Cake Wrecks - Home - This Is Why You Always Knock)
The toy bag is so small….Santa is definitely up to no good.
"But what I really want to be is Jacques Cousteau, Robert Ballard, Captain Nemo. I want to dive deep, to explore in depths, to pause, to see, to understand. That means no flitting about, no seeking out the next interesting thing, every interesting thing. I must stop, sink beneath the waves, and pause. That is difficult. But it is rewarding in so many ways."
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Randy Murray – You Are Not A Hummingbird (via minimalmac)
This.
(via minimalmac)
"What this means is that, even though purists may continue to shoot movies on film, film itself will may become increasingly hard to come by, use, develop and preserve. It also means that the film camera — invented in 1888 by Louis Augustin Le Prince — will become to cinema what typewriters are to literature. Anybody who still uses a Smith-Corona or IBM Selectric typewriter knows what that means: if your beloved machine breaks, you can’t just take it to the local repair shop, you have to track down some old hermit in another town who advertises on Craigslist and stockpiles spare parts in his basement."
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R.I.P., the movie camera: 1888-2011 - Matt Zoller Seitz - Salon.com (via samabernethy)
NOOOOOOOOOOOO. I’m a purist that likes the “warmth” of film.
(via samabernethy)
“the existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one’s intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.” -George Orwell
Now we have a name for what happens to us at the end of the day…”Decision Fatigue”.
