joie de vivre

words & images...on an electronic scroll...thinking, living, breathing, sinking, soaring

[authentic-boredom]

Drew Medlin

[r-eprobate]

[highenoughtoseethesea]

Kelly Slater winning the Volcom Pipe Pro.  He says the final day was the best Pipe he’s surfed in his life.

Photo: Brent Bielmann

[explore-blog]

Consumerism, requiring its products to be both endlessly desirable and endlessly disposable, cannot make sense of art, which is neither — not desirable, because an encounter already is, and not disposable, because an encounter exists relationally, in space and time. At its best, literature is pure encounter: it resists consumption because it cannot be used up and it cannot expire. The bonds that are formed between readers and writers, between readers and characters, and between readers and ideas, are meaningful in a way that the bonds formed between consumers and products can never be. Literature demands curiosity, empathy, wonder, imagination, trust, the suspension of cynicism, and the eradication of prejudice; in return, it affords the reader curiosity, empathy, wonder, imagination, trust, the suspension of cynicism, and the eradication of prejudice.

In her fantastic meditation on literature and elitism, Eleanor Catton adds to history’s finest definitions of art and echoes Judith Butler on the value of reading.

[stoicmike]

[scienceisbeauty]

Hierarchy of disagreement, based on Paul Graham’s essay “How to Disagree”. Might be good bear in mind this graphic when you’re involved in dialectic disputes, specifically online.

[coeursfideles-deactivated201505]

[sagansense]

Very relevant.

[kushandwizdom]

[itsokaytobesmart]

Hey, you feel like going to Mars today? Climb on top of a dune in Gale Crater’s “Dingo Gap” with Mars Curiosity, via Andrew Bornov’s latest interactive Mars panorama. Adam Mann has more info on what you’re looking at over at Wired.

If you’re on a non-mobile device, I’ve embedded it below. If you ARE on a mobile device, click here, and you’re in for a special augmented reality treat!

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[manchannel]

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via cosmiclovetsunami)

[codeawayhaley-deactivated201901]

According to the laws of physics, a planet in the shape of a doughnut (toroid) could exist. Physicist Anders Sandberg says that such planets would have very short nights and days, an arid outer equator, twilight polar regions, moons in strange orbits and regions with very different gravity and seasons.

Read more: http://bit.ly/1kPLXGT via io9

[appliedtechnotopia-consulting]

What if a planet was doughnut shaped? Yes, it´s possible.

[4gifs]

[nikolawashere]

[james-joiedevivre]

By Scarlett Hooft Graafland

[gallowhill]

Nicolai Howalt - Boxer series, 2000-2003

[blue-voids]

Tamas Dezso - Decebal Statue, Romania, 2012 - from the series Notes for an Epilogue

[getpiped-blog1]

John John in ‘& Again' 

[tastefullyoffensive]