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ONISM

n. the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people's passwords, each representing one more thing you'll never get to see before you die-and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here.

dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com

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Nobody Tells This To Beginners

It’s easy to become frustrated (and even give up) when you experience “the gap” between your skills and your tastes, but the important thing is to never give up.

Share this beautiful and inspirational video with people who are just starting out in a creative field.

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SONDER

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. From "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows". Narrated, written, directed, edited and coined by John Koenig. 

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Amy Keim

There is no meaning to life. Trying to figure out an answer is beyond us all. People always assume meaning comes through religion, the social structure, the family, the work. That's all an excuse for people not being able to cope with the fact that we're here and nobody knows our true purpose. Anybody who tries to apply a direct meaning to life is just grabbing for a security blanket.

Life's destructive forces are authoritarian powers, ruling forces such as government, police, the educational system, the religious system. People were not meant to have power over them. We're meant to have a power within, to run things through ourselves through mutual respect and honor. Too many people abide by laws they don't really believe in, laws they practice through fear instead of sincerity. 

I believe in a form of anarchy but it's a misconceived term. It has nothing to do with chaos and violence. It has to do with people leading themselves in a freer form of existence. In true anarchy, there is no chaos because there is self-respect and respect for the world. My responsibility is to help evolve our society and our world toward a state in which people want to create a free existence for everybody to mutually enjoy. People don't want to destroy, they want to create.  

Amy Keim is a lead singer in Nausea, an anarcho-punk band.

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What Are We Waiting For ? - Amiina

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Johnnyrandom | Bespoken

Composer Johnnyrandom breaks new ground with musical compositions made exclusively from everyday objects. His debut single, “Bespoken”, explores the full potential of sounds generated from bicycles and their components, transcending the role of traditional instrumentation as the accepted method for creating beautiful and thought-provoking music.

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You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant... oh, fuck it.

M. Gustave - The Grand Budapest Hotel

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Palestinian refugees in district La Quarantaine.

Year: 1976

Photographer: Francoise Demulder

Place: Beirut, Lebanon

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Once Again - Hang Massive 

(music video)

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A lot of people talk about love, even though it's almost always mixed up with some other animal/vegetable/mineral traits, even thought it's always being conveniently redefined to conform to our clumsy expressions of it. Most people, if pressed, probably could not swear that they absolutely, positively, know what it is. Its existence is taken for granted, as if the study of love was not worth the effort of, say, the study of economics or politics. If we recognize love, it is by its beauty. If we recognize truth, it is by its beauty. The meaning of life is beauty. When we sense and experience beauty, we are looking straight into the face of the creator. We achieve transcendent union with the mind of God. We were born to be aware of it and to create more of it. Money, health, power, comfort mean nothing without it. The beauty of love and truth are what make the ugly parts of life worth enduring.

Todd Rundgren, songwriter, video artist and record producer, is founding member of the rock group Utopia.

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The National - I Need My Girl

The National couldn't have done it better. Today, they released  this wonderful video (directed by Sophia Peer) for I Need My Girl. What a beautiful way of celebrating love !

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Song for Zula - Phosphorescent 

(music video)

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Stephen Jay Gould

The human species has inhabited this planet for only 250 000 years or so - roughly .0015 percent of the history of life, the last inch of the cosmic mile. The world fared perfectly well without us for all but the last moment of earthly time - and this fact makes our appearance look more like an accidental afterthought than the culmination of a prefigured plan.

Moreover, and more important, the pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. Human evolution is not random; it makes sense and can be explained after the fact. But wind back life's tape to the dawn of time and let it play again - and you will never get humans a second time.

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because comets struck the earth and wiped out dinosaurs, thereby giving mammals a chance not otherwise available (so thank you lucky stars in a literal sense); because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a "higher" answer - but none exists. This explanation, though superficially troubling, if not terrifying, is ultimately liberating and exhilarating. We cannot read the meaning of life passively in the facts of nature. We must construct these answers ourselves - from our own wisdom and ethical sense. There is no other way. 

Stephen Jay Gould is a paleontologist, essayist and humanist. 

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The Sound of Taste

What does flavour look like? How does it sound?

Several tons of black peppercorns, cardamom, turmeric, paprika, cumin seeds, ginger, chilli and coriander were rigged to explode in perfect sync with a bespoke musical composition. Each explosion represents an individual piano note or chord, which when filmed at high speed, creates a surreal three dimensional sound scape.

A "half-visual, half-auditory” installation !

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The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Samantha - Her

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A mother and her daughter are hurled off a collapsing fire-escape in an apartment house fire. Together with a fire-fighter, they waited for the rescue ladder to reach them. As the fire-fighter climbed onto the ladder, the fire-escape collapsed under their feet and they fell to the ground five floors below. The woman was killed but the child survived, her fall cushioned by the woman's body.

Year: 1975

Photographer: Stanley Forman

Place: Boston, USA

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Holding On for Life - Broken Bells