Mastering Modernity

Making The Most Of Modern Times

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all the babes at dior. ss19 PFW.

blake lively

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"On the one hand, you know, coming from rural America, I think, oh, all right, now we're getting some attention in national discussion. But the hell of it is, it's often, from my view, the wrong attention, framed the wrong way, asking the wrong questions, and making the wrong assessments. I'd almost rather just be left alone. So we've sort of moved from a sense of invisibility to a stunning, broad stereotype casting millions of Americans as somehow a political and cultural monolith. It seems to me that what's going on right now is the scapegoating of a group that I know in some pockets to be very progressive, and is not at all represented by the media attention that's going on right now." - Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir Of Working Hard and Being Broke In The Richest Country On Earthinterviewed for NPR

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Americans Think Jobs Are The Answer To Poverty. They're Not. from NY Times

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Tarot + Sigil reading, requested by @clairecalire Question: “how to gain mastery in the current and future things that I am learning within the shortest time possible” Card drawn: Three of Coins Sigil: I work with others to most efficiently gain mastery over my current and future interests

In the Mucha Tarot’s card of Three of Discs (Coins), an old architect can be seen looking through plans for construction while a younger artisan is hammering the building. Both the architect and artisan is working in harmony to build the construction - this is the key to your mastery. When people work together towards a common goal as a community, they achieve for more than a person could do so on their own. The advice from this card is that you need to ask for help, work with the help you are given and learn from your shared experience. Perhaps, find a mentor and work with them, or start a study group. Do not struggle on your own when there is help around you.

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Shoegaze label Saint Marie Records are holding a huge sale the next two days! 50% all non-2018 albums!

Saint Marie Records Bandcamp

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The Productivity - Wage Gap, from the Economic Policy Institute Happy Labor Day, proletariat! Workers of the world unite!

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From Ingmar Bergman’s Summer Interlude (1951).

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Allegory of Fame after Death by Hendrick Hondius I, 1610 via @sexdeathrebirth

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Albrecht Dürer - St. Jerome In His Study (1514)

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Portland's Art Scene A Hidden Weapon Of Economic Development, via OregonLive

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Eminem Drops Surprise Album, Kamikaze! Let's see how this goes!

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When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive. A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles and open it and read it, and put something in a bottle that will wash its way back to you: appreciation, or a commission, or money, or love. And you have to accept that you may put out a hundred things for every bottle that winds up coming back.

Neil Gaiman on freelancing (via writingdotcoffee)

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Looks like Terribly Human Beings wasn't just a name. The Orwells have broken up due to sexual abuse allegations. Via Pitchfork.

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Emmy Rossum Is Leaving Shameless, via Variety

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How Do You Talk About A Lack Of Sex In A Relationship?

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