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Everything is invented. Language. Childhood. Careers. Relationships. Religion. Philosophy. The future. They are not there for the plucking. They don’t exist in some natural state.
They must be invented by people. And that, of course, is a great thing. Don’t mope in your room. Go invent something. That is the American message. Electricity. Flight. The telephone. Television. Computers. Walking on the moon. It never stops.
Can Do. Maira Kalman. 2009.
Snowflake.
“Life looks for life”.
Carl Sagan. 1934-1996.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell.
via Claire Evans.
Enter the Void, Gaspar Noé. 2009.
Triskelion - Freud, Adler & Jung. George Palethorpe.
“ Who owns the words? Who owns the music and the rest of our culture? We do. All of us. Though not all of us know it, yet… Reality can’t be copyrighted.
God’s Little Toys, William Gibson. 2005.
via Caitlin Lord.
Rest Energy, Marina Abramovic & Ulay. 1980.
(Source: oedameux, via nobleviews)
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We Need A Resolution (Featuring Timbaland), Ass-Attack 2001 Mixtape, Aaliyah. 2001.
via Poppy Coleman.
“ Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
Isadora Duncan. 1877-1927.
Headache (Detail), Helen Pynor. 2008.
(Source: neuroimages)
