Quote of the Day – December 14 2015
“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”
Robert Brault
How Do We Know What We Want? Milan Kundera on the Ambivalences of Life and Love
“Live as if you were living already for the second time,” Viktor Frankl wrote in his 1946 masterwork on the human search for meaning, “and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
And yet we only live once, with no rehearsal or reprise — a fact […]
What I’m listening to… ‘Dreaming Amanda’ by Xtra Beat Circle
Another chillout Cloudcast by Nico of Xtra Beat Circle… The first in a new series called ‘Dreaming Amanda’.
I’m highly complimented! Relax and enjoy this one.
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Great work, Nico!
Thank you.
Amanda
Quote of the Day – December 13 2015
“The world don’t need any more songs… As a matter of fact, if nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain’t gonna suffer for it. Nobody cares. There’s enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could […]
Video: A Mathematical Breakdown of Cinematography
“…so much of creating a beautiful image involves numerical principles. Many classic films have made use of the number known as the “Golden Ratio” (1.618), as well as the visual device known as One-Point Perspective (a way to make a two-dimensional plane look three-dimensional), and now Vimeo user Ali Shirazi has put together a visual […]
Quote of the Day – December 12 2015
“The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.”
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Is selfie culture forcing the next gen to grow up too quickly?
From article:
The genesis of selfies can be traced back to 2007 when the first iPhone was released (complete with its two-whole-megapixels camera). Coupled with the invention of social-media platforms such as Instagram (2010) and Snapchat (2011), it created a seismic shift that’s seen teenagers transform from wallflowers to Kylie Jenner-esque extroverts in only a matter […]
Quote of the Day – December 11 2015
“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
J. K. Rowling
Photographers I Admire – Barry Feinstein
From Wikipedia:
Barry Feinstein (February 4, 1931 – October 20, 2011) was an American photographer who was reputed to have produced over 500 album covers.
In 1955 Feinstein was engaged as an assistant photographer at Life magazine. He subsequently became a sought-after photographer in Hollywood, where he worked with Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Charlton Heston, […]
Quote of the Day- December 10 2015
“I’m convinced we all are voyeurs. It’s part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows. And not in a way that we would use to hurt anyone. There’s an entertainment value to it, but at the same time we want […]