Originally Posted By robertburden-blog

It’s finally finished. This Star Wars painting took 2000 hours spread out over 18 months. I hope you can see it in person one day.
“The 20th Century Space Opera”
oil on canvas, 8ft x 15ft, 2015

We received your print a few weeks ago – can’t stop looking at it bc we’re always discovering something new :)

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Philosopher Alain de Botton takes a cursory look at why the news is presented as it is (spoiler alert: there’s room for improvement ;D) and how we could better shape the news. Given that tumblr is my de-facto source of self-curated news about technology and the humanities, it’s interesting to compare how my interests shape up. The following is excerpted from the chapter on Celebrity News:

“1. Why do people want to become famous? It’s easy enough to mock celebrities, but where in the psyche does the will to fame spring from?…

2. At the heart of the desire for fame lies a touching, vulnerable and simple aspiration: a longing to be treated nicely. Whatever secondary impetuts may be supplied by appetites for money, luxury, sex or power, it is really the wish for respect that drives the will to fame…”

3. Fame allows celebrities to leverage kindness and respect from others. A famous name alone can accomplish in an instant what its bearer might otherwise have had to beg for over years with his or her whole personality…

5. The intensity for the desire for fame depends also on the nature of one’s society. The more dignity and kindness are given only to the very few, the stronger the urge will be to avoid being simply normal. Those who pin the blame for ‘celebrity culture’ at the door of the immoral young are hence missing the point. The real cause of celebrity culture isn’t narcissistic shallowness, it is a deficit of kindness. A society where everyone wants to be famous is also one where…being ordinary has failed to deliver the degree of respect necessary to satisfy people’s natural appetite for dignity…

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Yaybahar is an electric-free, totally acoustic instrument designed by Gorkem Sen. The vibrations from the strings are transmitted via the coiled springs to the frame drums. These vibrations are turned into sound by the membranes which echo back and forth on the coiled springs. This results in an unique listening experience with an hypnotic surround sound. What you hear in this performance is captured in realtime without any additional effects and with no post audio processing. For contact: yaybaharcontact@gmail.com www.yaybahar.com Facebook: http://ift.tt/1ol34WC Youtube: http://ift.tt/1ol33C5 Soundcloud: http://ift.tt/1ol33Ca… Twitter: http://ift.tt/1uuKCxH Credits ————- Instrument: Yaybahar Performence:www.yaybahar.com Facebook: http://ift.tt/1ol34WC Youtube: http://ift.tt/1ol33C5 Soundcloud: http://ift.tt/1ol33Ca… Twitter: http://ift.tt/1uuKCxH Credits ————- Instrument: Yaybahar Performence: Görkem Şen Video: Levent Bozkurt Video Editing: Olgu Demir Sound Mix: Mert Aksuna Place: Alişler Yurdu 2014 Yaybahar by Görkem Şen Olgu Demir

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We must accept our existence in as wide a sense as can be; everything, even the unheard-of, must be possible within it. That, when you come down to it, is the only kind of courage that is demanded of us: the courage for the oddest, the most unexpected, the most inexplicable things that we may encounter. That human beings have been cowardly in this regard has done life endless harm; the experiences we describe as ‘apparitions’, the entire so-called 'spirit world’, death, all those things so closely akin to us have by our daily rejection of them been forced so far out of our lives that the senses with which we might apprehend them have atrophied. To say nothing of God. But the fear of the inexplicable has not just rendered the individual existence poorer; relations between people, too, have been restricted, as it were lifted out of the river-bed of endless possibilities and placed on a deserted bank where nothing happens. For it it is no lethargy alone which causes human relationships to repeat themselves in the same old way with such unspeakable monotony in instance after instance; it is the fearful shying away from any kind of new, unforeseeable experience which we think we may not be equal to. But only someone who is ready for anything and rules nothing out, not even the most enigmatic things, will experience the relationship with another as a living thing and will himself live his own existence to the full.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

…les discours exagérés cachant les affections médiocres; comme si la plénitude de l'âme ne débordait pas quelquefois par les métaphores les plus vides, puisque personne, jamais, ne peut donner l'exacte mesure de ses besoins, ni de ses conceptions, ni de ses douleurs, et que la parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les étoiles.

Madame Bovary

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Originally Posted By artchipel

artchipel:

John Virtue - Landscape IV. Oil on canvas, 167.5x167.2 cm
Collection: University of Plymouth
[found at 5582db]

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Originally Posted By shihlun

shihlun:

Arnold Newman
Igor Stravinsky
1945

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Originally Posted By shihlun

shihlun:

Arnold Newman
Violin shop : patterns on table, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1941

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Originally Posted By staceythinx

staceythinx:

Aerial views of rice fields in Indonesia (Makassar, Sulawesi) from peace-on-earth.org

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Originally Posted By laphamsquarterly

laphamsquarterly:

The Worst Jobs in the World
Thinking of striking on this May Day? Maybe you should if you’re a Renaissance spit boy or a nineteenth-century leech gatherer.

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Originally Posted By brycedotvc

BRYCE DOT VC: If You Want to See How We'll Live In the Future...

brycedotvc:

…”look at how rich people are living today”.
Was said as a passing comment in a recent conversation. But I couldn’t let it just pass.
Think about it.
When you imagine Gordon Gecko from the movie Wall St. what image do you have in mind? Mine is the one of the poster boy of wealth clutching…

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