The Lost Generation

Hi! This is Irena. I love books, music, fashion... basically art in all its forms. Stuck in the 1920s.

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Lucian Bernhard, design for cigarette packaging, 1920. From the magazine “Plakat,”  via magazines.iaddb.org

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DIGITAL HUMANITIES: Sample Projects

Definition of Digital Humanities: 

Digital Humanities interprets the cultural and social impact of new media and information technologies, as well as creates and applies these technologies to interrogate cultural, social, historical, and philological questions.

Here are some examples of digital humanities projects:

http://www.prisonlit.org/ : This peculiar DH project consists in a group of volunteers that recive letters from prisoneers who ask for books and literature to read in prision.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/48631/6-early-theories-about-origin-language : This DH project  explains the diferent theories of the origin of language.

http://www.saveart.com/about.html : This DH project  its formed by a group of people whose obejctive is that people  don’t lose the interest in art and its history. They do that by selling creative clothes designs which you can buy on the same web, and with the money they earn, they invest it on charitable contributions for causes related to art.

Thanks for reading! See you soon. 

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I think love is all there is or should be

Tender is the night- F.S. Fitzgerald (via margarou)

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Top ten amazing facts about Irish legend Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde is one of Ireland’s greatest, if not most humorous exports.

Even though Wilde did not live to be on the 20s, his work really influenced the authors of the lost generation. Check this out if you are interested in his life!

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GLOSSARY

BOOK: A set of printed sheets of paper which are held together in a cover. The sheets which compeose it have been written by a human being who tries to transmit in some way a lesson or a story with the aim of making the reader enjoy the activity.

LITERATURE: It is the art of writting with an aesthetic objective.

THE LOST GENERATION: It is known as the generation which lived throughout the post World War I period. The adjective ‘lost’ was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, a writer of this decay. He mentioned the term in his book ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and he wrote it referring to the fact that this generation was one that would be nothing but a black stain in history, due to the circumstances they had to live in (the post-war period was one which left people thinking of the shortness of life and the importance of making the most of it).

BOOK: A set of printed sheets of paper which are held together in a cover. The sheets which compeose it have been written by a human being who tries to transmit in some way a lesson or a story with the aim of making the reader enjoy the activity.

THE TWENTIES: The twenties were the decay which came right after the World War I. These years were ones where people, due to the horrible years they had gone through, started living nonchalantly and doing everything they wanted. They had seen the dark side of the world and were not willing to live their lives as if death were going to be any better. From the 1918 to the 1929 people started living life as if there was no tomorrow.

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Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.

Banksy (via banksyarts)

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“Supernova”

May 20th.

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This post is queued. I’m currently in New York and will be home on September 5th. Until then please enjoy these poems from the past. x Erin

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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese Chemist & Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (via fyp-science)

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The Authors of The Lost Generation

Ernest Hemingway

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sherwood Anderson

John Dos Passos

John Steinbeck

William Faulkner

Waldo Peirce

Isadora Duncan

Abraham Walkowitz

Alan Seeger

Franz Kafka

Henry Miller

Aldous Huxley

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Erich Maria Remarque

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New York November 10, 1958 Dear Thom: …First – if you are in love – that’s a good thing – that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you. Second – There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you – of kindness and consideration and respect – not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had. You say this is not puppy love. If you feel so deeply – of course it isn’t puppy love. But I don’t think you were asking me what you feel. You know better than anyone. What you wanted me to help you with is what to do about it – and that I can tell you. Glory in it for one thing and be very glad and grateful for it. The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it. If you love someone – there is no possible harm in saying so – only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration. Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also… And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. Love, Fa

John Steinbeck, "Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter.“ Letter to Thomas Steinbeck. 10, Nov. 1958. 

Steinbeck shared his words of wisdom about love with his eldest, teenage son, Thom, who confessed to have fallen desperately in love with a girl named Susan while at boarding school. Read full letter here. 

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My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

Diane Arbus (via wordsnquotes)

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Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451  (via wordsnquotes)

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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

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For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via eternityatonce)