The Currency of Sleep

All the makings of a better tomorrow, tonight.

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Next cover, Charlie Hebdo

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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone

John Maynard Keynes (via mappeal)

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These people can’t see the difference between thinking a thought and hearing a voice.

Nic Pizzolatto, on the religious. (via mappeal)

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Roger Scruton – A culture of fake originality

From pickled sharks to compositions in silence, fake ideas and fake emotions have elbowed out truth and beauty

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What is life like when having your period puts your health at risk and means you are shunned by society?

For Radha dinner is served at 7. She crouches down behind a shed, a good distance from her house, then waits. She knows what the menu will be: boiled rice, the same as yesterday and the day before. She knows that it will be her little sister who serves it, throwing the rice onto her plate from a height, the way you would feed a dog.

In Jamu, Radha’s village in western Nepal, her status is lower than a dog’s, because she is menstruating. She is only 16, yet, for the length of her period, Radha can’t enter her house or eat anything but boiled rice.

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Process of Yuzen - The making of a kimono

Now I understand why real kimonos are so expensive.

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2097. Kimono Making Process. Check out the insane amount of detailed worksmanship it takes to make a single kimono.

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The Great Divide is Not Technological

Inequalities have increased as educated people capitalize on a new knowledge economy while others have neither the training nor the cultural capital even to apply for the job of an assistant to a receptionist at a call center.

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The necessity to work is a neurotic symptom. It is a crutch. It is an attempt to make oneself feel valuable even though there is no particular need for one’s working.

1940s Psychiatry magazine (via nevver)

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if i ever met a genie i wouldnt wish for a million dollars id wish that whenever i bought something i’d always have the right amount of money to pay for it in my pocket

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you are one of the great thinkers of our time

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/ 18 / 2 swords? must be musashi (^_^)

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield performs a cover of “Space Oddity” on the International Space Station (by Chris Hadfield)

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http://chn.ge/16QtO79

Just what the link says. If you care about Adobe using their monopoly to kill small design shops and freelancers, as well as the fact that they’ve just provided a huge, perpetual price barrier to anyone wanting to enter the creative fields, then please sign this.

I have so much more to say about how misguided they are, and I wish that there were any kind of realistic alternatives to Adobe products.

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If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.  

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom: 

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke €(herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

[ I was going to post a long rant about some arrogant yoga girl who insists people are ignorant for using olive oil to cook and should not eat fish or drink milk or eat cheese because of all sorts of problematic food issues, instead I said, let me focus on those who celebrate food. If you still want to see the link of the article she was waving on her Facebook, there you go. Privileged white people…ugh]

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There are two types of nerds (via)

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Zen Pencils Comic: 100. CARL SAGAN: Pale blue dot

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