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Gabriel García Márquez, born on this day in 1927, on his unlikely beginnings as a writer – inspiring assurance for any creative endeavor. 

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Microsoft Outlook   (via kafkaesque-world)

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How devastating that we have lost David Bowie – remember his trailblazing and courageous spirit with his answers to the Proust Questionnaire.

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Kaf·ka·esque | having a complex, nightmarish, or bizarre quality.

Kafuka: Inaka Isha (2007) is Koji Yamamura’s short anime film interpretation of the 1917 Franz Kafka story “A Country Doctor”, in which a doctor is called to a secluded house in the cold of winter to tend to a young boy’s mysterious ailments. Both the film and novel involved ordinary scenarios distorted by surreal events.

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Photographer Alfred Stieglitz was born this day in 1864. The hands pictured in this image are artist Georgia O'Keeffe’s.  

[Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands and Horse Skull. 1931. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2015 Estate of Alfred Stieglitz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

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2016 is coming! #HappyNewYear

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a dose of daily beautiful

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Hypnotic GIFs of Victorian Optical Toys

Long before the time of Disney and Pixar, artists made images move using a variety of -scopes and -tropes.

Not a holiday thing, I know, but it’s still pretty damn cool.

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Kierkegaard on ideals, happiness, and the false allure of the extraordinary.

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new year’s resolution: walk more in rain

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Oscar Wilde (via headlesssamurai)

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Fellini.

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“Wong’s chief inspiration for Chungking Express was a short story entitled ‘On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning’ by the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. The story is about the mutability of perceptions, and begins with the sentence, ‘One fine April morning, I passed my 100% woman on a Harajuku back street.’ Chungking Express similarly begins with a chance encounter, which becomes a motif in the first episode… Wong develops the themes of chimerical relationships with the same evanescence displayed in Murakami’s short story. People’s lives just touch but never interpenetrate (maybe they do not even touch but just brush past, mere possibilities, foregone opportunities to connect, impermanence). Like Murakami, Wong injects a sense of magical element into everyday life but with a sense of fatal consequences. Like Murakami, he invokes icons from popular culture to suggest the part that memory plays.” (From Wong Kar-wai by Stephen Teo, 50-51)

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If I cannot make it clear through reference to popular literature or cinema, then I am the one that doesn’t understand it.

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[michaelwarford]

I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.

Marilynne Robinson

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In praise of dirty, sexy cities: the urban world according to Walter Benjamin

Seventy five years after his death, the Marxist philosopher’s passion for the seedier, messier delights of cities such as Marseille and Moscow are a stark reminder of how sanitised today’s urban environment is becoming

“But the worry here is that what Benjamin’s colleagues of the Frankfurt School – Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer – excoriated as “the culture industry” becomes a means of ripping the soul out of the place while making it look as though the opposite is happening. Without being unduly cynical, culture has become part of capitalism’s sanitising redevelopment of one of the most cherishably wicked of world cities.”