Another Earth, dir. Mike Cahill (2011)
This film is phenomenal. Beautiful. And I can’t quite put the right words together right now to describe the brilliance of Brit Marling’s performance in this… but it is also truly beautiful.
"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living."
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Buckminster Fuller
I really needed to read this. —TO (via tobia)
As I graduate, my biggest grudge is that I will not have all the resources at my university available to me anymore. Yes I will definitely get a membership to a decent library, but what about the lectures and seminars? I will miss seeing all those wonderful minds unravel in front of me and the most fruitful, inspiring and irritating seminars. My biggest fear is that whatever I end up doing next will never be as productive and valuable as that time.
"Don’t even get started if you’re going to just try to do some mediocre shit, ‘cause there’s so much of that. Don’t do it just to make noise, there’s too much noise. Give me something amazing, give me something new. Give me something I haven’t seen before, in a way I haven’t seen it. Let me feel something. Find some kind of magic. Go towards something that is inexplicable. Give me something that’s agressive and gnarly. Chew up the world. Come at it from some other place. But just don’t give me the same shit over and over again, ‘cause I don’t want it."
- Harmony Korine (x)
![fantomas-en-cavale:
“J’avais 19 ans et je m’appelais Sylvette David à l’époque. Mon petit ami Toby fabriquait des meubles et les exposait à la poterie Madoura: c’est là que Picasso m’a remarquée puisque lui-même y faisait cuire ses céramiques. Un jour, alors que nous étions avec des amis sur une terrasse voisine de son atelier, il a déployé une toile où il avait dessiné mon portrait de profil, avec ma queue-de-cheval. Nous sommes allés le voir: il nous a montré son travail, puis il m’a demandé de poser pour lui. Tout le monde était ahuri, moi la première. J’avais une amie très belle et c’est moi qu’il voulait. Pourquoi ? Il ne me l’a jamais expliqué. Toujours est-il que pendant trois mois, je me suis rendue à son atelier presque chaque jour, pour y passer plusieurs heures assise sur un rocking-chair.
[…]
Picasso travaillait dans le silence, en fumant et en m’observant de son bel oeil noir. Une fois dans la peinture, il oubliait tout, comme entièrement livré à son inspiration. Pas de conversation, pas de musique, pas de thé ni de café, juste ce regard posé sur moi. Le temps ne comptait pas. En revanche, quand il n’était pas en train de peindre, il me parlait beaucoup. Il me racontait son passé, m’expliquait son art, me donnait des conseils sur la vie et le bonheur.
C’est lui qui a révélé ma vocation: si je suis artiste, c’est grâce à lui.”
Lydia Corbett, aka Sylvette David, sur sa relation avec Picasso dans un entretien avec Grégoire Jeanmonod.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e09db1098a43f18f3bcccc0f3ff55782/tumblr_mn1lm2JTsn1rwl0c9o1_500.jpg)
“J’avais 19 ans et je m’appelais Sylvette David à l’époque. Mon petit ami Toby fabriquait des meubles et les exposait à la poterie Madoura: c’est là que Picasso m’a remarquée puisque lui-même y faisait cuire ses céramiques. Un jour, alors que nous étions avec des amis sur une terrasse voisine de son atelier, il a déployé une toile où il avait dessiné mon portrait de profil, avec ma queue-de-cheval. Nous sommes allés le voir: il nous a montré son travail, puis il m’a demandé de poser pour lui. Tout le monde était ahuri, moi la première. J’avais une amie très belle et c’est moi qu’il voulait. Pourquoi ? Il ne me l’a jamais expliqué. Toujours est-il que pendant trois mois, je me suis rendue à son atelier presque chaque jour, pour y passer plusieurs heures assise sur un rocking-chair.
[…]
Picasso travaillait dans le silence, en fumant et en m’observant de son bel oeil noir. Une fois dans la peinture, il oubliait tout, comme entièrement livré à son inspiration. Pas de conversation, pas de musique, pas de thé ni de café, juste ce regard posé sur moi. Le temps ne comptait pas. En revanche, quand il n’était pas en train de peindre, il me parlait beaucoup. Il me racontait son passé, m’expliquait son art, me donnait des conseils sur la vie et le bonheur.
C’est lui qui a révélé ma vocation: si je suis artiste, c’est grâce à lui.”
Lydia Corbett, aka Sylvette David, sur sa relation avec Picasso dans un entretien avec Grégoire Jeanmonod.
(via topiecesdistractionetc)
"We are told “no,” we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. “Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.” And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world."
- Terence McKenna (via fluctuatin)
"It symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem."
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The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.
Read: Carbon Dioxide Level Passes Long-Feared Milestone - NYTimes
(via brooklynmutt)
Scientific monitors reported that the gas had reached an average daily level that surpassed 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human-produced emissions under control are faltering.
[…]
Ralph Keeling, who runs another monitoring program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, said a continuing rise could be catastrophic. “It means we are quickly losing the possibility of keeping the climate below what people thought were possibly tolerable thresholds,” he said.
(via mohandasgandhi)
(via mohandasgandhi)
"
my father always said, “early to bed and
early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy
and wise.”
it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house
and we were up at dawn to the smell of
coffee, frying bacon and scrambled
eggs.
my father followed this general routine
for a lifetime and died young, broke,
and, I think, not too
wise.
taking note, I rejected his advice and it
became, for me, late to bed and late
to rise.
now, I’m not saying that I’ve conquered
the world but I’ve avoided
numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some
common pitfalls
and have met some strange, wonderful
people
one of whom
was
myself—someone my father
never
knew.
- Charles Bukowski, “Throwing Away the Alarm Clock” (via larmoyante)
(via scheggevaganti)
"In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,” he told the site. “Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely. Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny. But then you become totally vanilla. You don’t alienate anybody, but you don’t excite anybody, either."
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Mike Jeffries, the CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch (gag—so vanilla), talking about why he “hates fat chicks”
Ok but like, this is Mike Jeffries, you guys:
Yup. Totally cool kid.
(I’m not saying that ‘good-looking’ people should be allowed this kind of rhetoric. Nobody should be allowed this, but…just…are you excluding yourself? Because you should. You should be excluded. Not because of how you look, but because of the filthy way you view the world.)
(via si-dramatic)
You know, there are so many important, serious issues I could highlight and discuss on this blog but this is the very attitude I find so unbelievably loathsome, ugly, and disgusting, that the very fact that it’s handsomely rewarded and encouraged makes me physically ill. This man must be feeling an incredible amount of pain inside. I genuinely pity him and hope he manages to get past it before his time is through. What a horribly miserable lens to view the world through.
(via mohandasgandhi)
"Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (via salam-balam)
(Source: rawrmarks, via luzdivino-deactivated20130516)
