AllThingsGood

A curated piece of internet real estate that focuses on All Things Good from around the world, developed by the creative team at UpperCloud Media. UpperCloudmedia.com

[explore-blog]

Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert on how your present illusions are limiting your future happiness and what to do about it.

[think-progress]

[kateoplis]

FIFA Will Pay U.S Women’s Championship Team 4 Times Less Than Men’s Teams That Lost In First Round

“The U.S. women’s soccer team defeated Japan on Sunday to win the World Cup. For their dominant performance, the team will collect $2 million from FIFA, the international body that runs the tournament.” 

Think-Progress

[explore-blog]

Henry Miller, who died on this day in 1980 after living 89 wholehearted years, on the secret to remaining young at heart. 

[thetalks]

Dustin Hoffman: "The Graduate happened after twelve years of being a failure.“ 

[unconsumption]

The Guardian: “How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be to show people.”

More:

Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot (OVER) contains powerful and evocative images showing the ecological and social tragedies of humanity’s ballooning numbers and consumption. It retails for $50, but as part of Speak Out you can request free books to use raising awareness about these important and urgent issues.

— rw

[Thx: Gena!]

[visualjunkee]

[kateoplis]

InAisce FW13/14 featuring S. Sudanese refugee, former child soldier turned actor, model, & activist Ger Duany | Vmagazine

Everything about this.

[explore-blog]

Sarah Manguso on time, memory, beginnings and endings, and the true measure of a life filled with aliveness 

[hydeordie]

Everyone says, ‘So, Andy [Warhol] really understood!’ Well I don’t think so. I think he didn’t give a fuck. Which is a very big difference, isn’t it?

Sturtevant (via nevver)

[nevver]

Is it Frida yet?

[thetalks]

I believe in fucking everything, man. Human life is magic – in all its tragedies and all its glory.

Colin Farrell  (via thetalks)

[thetalks]

It’s about finding balance between the cerebral and the impulsive creativity that comes from chaos.

Edward Norton (via thetalks)

[nevver]

Getting started is 90% of the task, finishing is the remaining 90%.

Howard Rheingold (via nevver)

[nuclearharvest]

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Unknown (via kateoplis)

[nevver]

Watercolors, Dan Sabau

[photographsonthebrain]

[kateoplis]

Pantonio

[kateoplis]

"A local man came up and said ‘Please — what does this mean?’

Banksy wrote. ‘I explained I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website — but on the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens.’”

Banksy | Al Jazeera America