(via Les incroyables cabines téléphonique de Sao Paulo !)
Il y a certaines idées qui envoient vraiment du lourd, surtout quand il s’agit d’œuvre placées dans la rue.
C’est le cas de ces incroyables cabines téléphonique que l’on trouve à Sao Paulo. Toutes ces créations ont été imaginé par Carla Pires de Carvalho Fernandes, mais la plus impressionnante d’entre toute c’est ce magnifique cerveau, je trouve ça ouf !
What… ? Old Muscle Cars Racing Through the Sky (via Old Muscle Cars Racing Through the Sky - My Modern Metropolis)
There is nothing else anyone could - or should - say about how emotionally intense this is. First-world problems? No. Hopes are hopes, anywhere in the world.
(via KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness | Cross Campus - Yale Daily News; - Yale Student’s Final Essay Goes Viral After Fatal Car Accident - TIME)
The piece below was written by Marina Keegan ‘12 for a special edition of the News distributed at the class of 2012’s commencement exercises last week. Keegan died in a car accident on Saturday. She was 22.
The small difference between an artist and a pervert… hilarious! (via silhouettemasterpiecetheatre.com Blog)
The Story of Symbols ~ Kuriositas -
Interesting article on the question mark, the exclamation mark, the equals sign, the ampersand, the octothorp, the dollar, the pound, and the at sign!
We use them every day – but what are the mysterious origins of these symbols we take for granted?
Here are few short explanations to demystify the meanings of our favorite symbols.
“Some of today’s successful tech industry executives have taken unorthodox paths to becoming tech leaders, including dropping out of high school or college. But dropouts make up a tiny percentage of the success stories in the high tech field and beyond. It is true that young people today are light years ahead of past generations in mastering new technologies and adopting innovation. But nothing changes the fact that a 21st century economy requires a 21st century education. Bypassing post-secondary education or training in favor of jumping into the workplace is a disservice to a global society in a competitive world.
It’s concerning then that some opinion leaders are encouraging entrepreneurs to bypass a college degree. In fact, 60 Minutes recently featured PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel promoting this path. These viewpoints serve to fuel speculation that the entirety our future workforce is better served taking their skills directly to the marketplace in lieu of a college degree.”
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Elisa Stephens: The Value of a College Degree in the Innovation Economy
“But nothing changes the fact that a 21st century economy requires a 21st century education.”
Word.
I don’t know.
On Thought Catalog, Chelsea Fagan wrote:
A very dependable feature of people who live abroad is finding them huddled together in bars and restaurants, talking not just about their homelands, but about the experience of leaving. And strangely enough, these groups of ex-pats aren’t necessarily all from the same home countries, often the mere experience of trading lands and cultures is enough to link them together and build the foundations of a friendship. I knew a decent amount of ex pats — of varying lengths of stay — back in America, and it’s reassuring to see that here in Europe, the “foreigner” bars are just as prevalent and filled with the same warm, nostalgic chatter.
Maybe it’s just me.
Maybe it’s just the fact that there’s not a whole ocean between me and my home country, but just a few rivers. I never went into this kind of foreigner bar to share my nostalgia with other strangers ex-pats, with strangers from different countries, other countries, my country.
The only time I ever sought something German in Paris in the past two years was when I was looking for German Christmas food for a party.
And the foreign housemate I had for the first year was a truly Francophile, so he missed France more when he was in his home country, than missed his home country when he was in France.
Or maybe I was just too busy all the time to wonder whether I missed Germany.
Tawnie Fipplestein surveyed the vast grey parking lot in front of him. It takes a man, a real man, to look at an empty lot and say “I’m going to put a horse-meat factory there!” And that’s exactly what Tawnie intended on doing. He kicked at a small pebble on the ground. Insignificant stone! With its feminine curves and weak nature. He stepped on the stone and it crumbled under his Sperry loafers with an exciting pop. “I’ll crush all the stones,” Tawnie thought to himself, “I’ll leave no stone unturned.” Behind him was Christabelle, sitting on a park bench and admiring Tawnie’s round yet manly buttocks. “It takes a real man to look at an empty lot and say ‘I’m going to put a horse-meat factory there!” she thought to herself. As though he read her mind, Tawnie set his arms akimbo and flexed his cheeks. Christabelle sighed lustily and fanned herself with her kerchief.
(via The TRON Light Cycle - DudeIWantThat.com) Holy shit, I REALLY want ride one of those. At night. In cyberspace.
“Just before I was asked to write this essay, on comporting oneself with elegance in the modern age, I was asked to lay out my thoughts on glamour for the New Inquiry. I mildly demurred, with regard to myself, and pointed to the term’s archaic roots as a kind of benign trickery. Glamour, you go out with; elegance, you marry (if you have any sense). Glamour is Ava Gardner, long my inspiration, and her penchant for bullfighters. Danger, costume, machismo –– it makes for a perfect cocktail of artfully constructed fantasies. One of the most elegant women who have ever lived would have to be Eleanor of Aquitaine, for the way in which she divorced the King of France and resurfaced as the Queen of England. As I recall, all anyone could piece together was a single meeting. Glamour is constructed, elegance is acquired, and charm is innate. For that reason, I think of the state of being elegant as having a kind of democratic virtue, open to all. Most of being elegant is knowing when to say “no,” and how (quickly, neutrally and with as little detail as possible, and more often than not), and cultivating empathy and a set of behaviors that spring forth from that compassionate heart. Civility, it is said, comes from the place where our elbows rub together. Manners are just the common practice.” — On Elegance - The Rumpus.net
William Gibson On MONDO 2000 & 90s Cyberculture (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #16) -
Grateful & honored, both for the interview + for being on Acceler8or \o/
By Simone Lackerbauer & R.U. Sirius: We were honored that William Gibson agreed to talk to us for the upcoming MONDO 2000 History Project book. We spoke about Mondo and about the ‘90s cyberculture in general and how it looks today. The interview was conducted by Simone Lackerbauer (with my kibitzing). These are a few fragments. Gibson was incorporated into the first “cyberpunk” edition of the magazine via a somewhat devious route, as discussed here.
Vintage pong
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“We often forget just how much relationships are built on the small, quiet moments between us: laughing and passing a bowl of popcorn over a movie, car rides together, the happy silence of two people who love each other enough to not have to make small talk when the food arrives. And when these moments are eroded, when simple geography keeps us from speaking this quiet, almost entirely unconscious language of love and friendship, it can make maintaining any kind of relationship an act of constant upkeep.” —
How To Survive Any Long-Distance Relationship « Thought Catalog
Oh, and also this:
When we think about long-distance relationships, what do we think of? Probably two lovers who’ve been separated by school, work, or some other inconvenience and breathlessly await the few visits they’re granted every now and again. They probably live for the sound of a new text message, a new email, or a lengthy phone call. It’s the kind of love that we can imagine compensates for the time you don’t get to spend together, for the extra effort one has to make in every gesture. And almost always, it’s romantic love. But as anyone who’s moved away from family and friends can attest, there are many kinds of relationships — and many kinds of love — which can suffer at the hands of distance and conflicting time zones.
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