Heliotropisme

Random digital memories of things otherwise forgotten.

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I barely heard him. My eyes had finally opened enough for me to focus on the mirror across the room and I was stunned at the shock of recognition. For a confused instant I thought that Ralph had brought somebody with him — a model for that one special face we’d been looking for. There he was, by God — a puffy, drink-ravaged, disease-ridden caricature … like an awful cartoon version of an old snapshot in some once-proud mother’s family photo album. It was the face we’d been looking for — and it was, of course, my own. Horrible, horrible …

- Hunter Thompson

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And unlike most of the others in the press box, we didn’t give a hoot in hell what was happening on the track. We had come there to watch the real beasts perform.

- Hunther Thompson

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"As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it, "All men are created equal, except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, "All men are created equal except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some other country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy."

Abraham Lincoln

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There are competing theories as to the origin of the term “kayfabe,” beyond its provenance in the strange lingo of the carnivals from which American pro wrestling emerged. But as to the meaning, there is no confusion; it is the central axiom of the business. Kayfabe is “the wrestlers’ adherence to the big lie, the insistence that the unreal is real … the abiding dogma of the pro wrestling industry.”

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Over the past six years, thousands of these memos have fallen -- sometimes in blizzards and flurries and sometimes in cold and lonely isolation. Yet -- as surprising as this may seem to those who may have been buried in the deluge -- there are many in the Department who have never received a snowflake. A few souls have even requested one. This snowflake is especially for them. Its message is, perhaps typically, to the point: Thank you!

Donald Rumsfeld, December 15th, 2006

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Jean-Michel Jean Louis - Profité

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Jperry - Enjoy 

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In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water. The premise sounds simple enough, but the final product is almost unfathomable in its detail and scope.

Spanning nearly 800 completely handwritten (and painted) pages, Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau, was probably the most comprehensive guide to paint and color of its time. 

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LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that studies how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focussing on how the design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment. Through research, conferences, teaching and projects, the centre aims to shape new thinking and practice on how to make cities fairer and more sustainable for the next generation of urban dwellers, who will make up some 70 per cent of the global population by 2050.

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Flag of Saint Lucia, "The Land, The People, The Light"

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Classical!

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Big Men trailer. Documentary by Rachel Boynton on an American company prospecting massive oil fields in Ghana. 

http://www.trust.org/item/20140311044105-g04dm/?source=hpblogs

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Great Marcus du Sautoy lecture on prime numbers at the Clay Institute

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Pharrell - Happy (in Hong Kong)

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Quantic - Duvidó feat. Pongolove

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"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus (engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the lower level of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty). 

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Werner Herzog and Erroll Morris discuss The Act of Killing