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Details of paintings of water by Claude Monet

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“Youth is an age of trial and error, where the action itself is the aim, and feelings are a reason to behave in a certain way. As adults we often lose the ability to do something without thinking about the consequences. We try to do everything ‘right’, depriving ourselves of unexpected and unplanned adventures – and ultimately, of happiness.” – photographer Igor Samolet on his time spent with young people in Northern Russia

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“The Red Drum Getaway” = Hitchcock + Kubrick (by Gump Studio)

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dot matrix

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Average Manager vs. Great Manager

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I am like a Spanish Conquistador. Recently, I’ve learned of untold riches hidden deep in the Americas. Long ago, Spanish Conquistadors learned of such things from American Indians. Now I have learned from an American Motion Picture.

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Adam J. Kurtz.

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“So what? Let’s do the ridiculous. And by doing the ridiculous, something might come of it."

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@tomgauld

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Roy Kafri - "Mayokero".

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Ads from Japan's Golden Era of Art Deco.

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My trailer for IFC Films' Seymour: An Introduction.

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"I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

We stand before a work of art and our spirit is lifted by it: amazing that someone is like us! We stand before a work of art and our spirit resists: amazing that someone is different!

It occurs to me on a regular basis that the cinema carries the potential to be perhaps the most humane of all gestures in art: the invitation to place ourselves, under the intimate cover of darkness, into another person’s shoes, behind another set of eyes, into another’s consciousness.  The ultimate compassion machine, the empathy engine.

Here is the darkness.

Here comes the light."

Tilda Swinton speaking at the Rothko Chapel. [via]

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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

Salman Rushdie condemns attack on Charlie Hebdo

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Worst year ever, The Guardian

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