Mette
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Enjoying Art in all forms, sounds and shapes. Architecture, nature 🌿
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"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness."
On George Saunders's birthday, his wonderful reflection on the power of kindness, animated www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/28/g...
On George Saunders's birthday, his wonderful reflection on the power of kindness, animated www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/28/g...
George Saunders on the Power of Kindness, Animated
“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.”
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December 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness."
On George Saunders's birthday, his wonderful reflection on the power of kindness, animated www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/28/g...
On George Saunders's birthday, his wonderful reflection on the power of kindness, animated www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/28/g...
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Talking Heads’ David Byrne Performs a Tiny Desk Concert
Talking Heads’ David Byrne Performs a Tiny Desk Concert
If you’ve seen a David Byrne concert in recent years, you know that he performs with a large ensemble of musicians, each carrying their own instruments across the stage, all while moving in intricatel...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Talking Heads’ David Byrne Performs a Tiny Desk Concert
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"It’s permitted
to receive solace for whatever you did
or didn’t do, pitiful, beautiful
human."
A lifeline of a poem from Ellen Bass
to receive solace for whatever you did
or didn’t do, pitiful, beautiful
human."
A lifeline of a poem from Ellen Bass
How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Paradox of Doing the Right Thing
“It’s permitted to receive solace for whatever you did or didn’t do, pitiful, beautiful human.”
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March 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"It’s permitted
to receive solace for whatever you did
or didn’t do, pitiful, beautiful
human."
A lifeline of a poem from Ellen Bass
to receive solace for whatever you did
or didn’t do, pitiful, beautiful
human."
A lifeline of a poem from Ellen Bass
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The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
It would hardly be notable to make the acquaintance of a Greek Buddhist today. Despite having originated in Asia, that religion — or philosophy, or way of life, or whatever you prefer to call it — now...
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March 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
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As spring breaks the world alive, here are some lovely poems celebrating the joys and consolations of the garden
Leaning Toward Light: A Posy of Poems Celebrating the Joys and Consolations of the Garden
“Gardening is like poetry in that it is gratuitous, and also that it cannot be done on will alone,” the poet and passionate gardener May Sarton wrote as she contemplated the parallels b…
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March 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
As spring breaks the world alive, here are some lovely poems celebrating the joys and consolations of the garden
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Singularity – an animated ode to our cosmic destiny inspired by Stephen Hawking, who returned his borrowed stardust to the universe 7 years ago today
Singularity: Marie Howe’s Ode to Stephen Hawking, Our Cosmic Belonging, and the Meaning of Home, in a Stunning Animated Short Film
“For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Remember?”
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March 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Singularity – an animated ode to our cosmic destiny inspired by Stephen Hawking, who returned his borrowed stardust to the universe 7 years ago today
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Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
Dalí long gone and Disney gone longer still, it came out. The delayed arrival of Destino had to do with money trouble at the Walt Disney Studios not long after the project began, and it seems that few...
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March 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
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Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation
Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation
Some filmmakers start in commercials, honing their chops in anticipation of making personal projects later. A select few go in the other direction, realizing their distinctive vision before fielding o...
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January 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation
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The Wide-Ranging Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials, Paintings, Photography & More
The Wide-Ranging Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials, Paintings, Photography & More
Image by Sasha Kargaltsev via Wikimedia Commons
As every cinephile has by now heard, and lamented, we've just lost a great American filmmaker.
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January 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Wide-Ranging Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials, Paintings, Photography & More
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David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead
David Lynch, the maverick American director who sustained a successful mainstream career while…
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January 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
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Norwegian painter Edvard Munch spent many summers at the coastal village of Åsgårdstrand, where he bought a house (now a museum). He said that "to walk in Åsgårdstrand is like walking among my paintings”. Here’s his ‘Moonlight’ (1895), and the scenery there (photo: Kavlie-Borge)
December 30, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch spent many summers at the coastal village of Åsgårdstrand, where he bought a house (now a museum). He said that "to walk in Åsgårdstrand is like walking among my paintings”. Here’s his ‘Moonlight’ (1895), and the scenery there (photo: Kavlie-Borge)
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Toni Morrison's words from 2015, as timely as ever:
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
#art #writing #courage #booksky
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
#art #writing #courage #booksky
December 12, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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This is the voice of DAVID DRAIMAN from the band Disturbed. So haunting and beautiful
December 13, 2024 at 11:20 AM
This is the voice of DAVID DRAIMAN from the band Disturbed. So haunting and beautiful
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My new favorite word: sonder.
It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of hopes, fears, loves, and heartaches that you'll never know.
Each moment of sonder is a reminder to appreciate how little we truly grasp about others' lives.
It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of hopes, fears, loves, and heartaches that you'll never know.
Each moment of sonder is a reminder to appreciate how little we truly grasp about others' lives.
December 8, 2024 at 12:36 PM
My new favorite word: sonder.
It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of hopes, fears, loves, and heartaches that you'll never know.
Each moment of sonder is a reminder to appreciate how little we truly grasp about others' lives.
It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of hopes, fears, loves, and heartaches that you'll never know.
Each moment of sonder is a reminder to appreciate how little we truly grasp about others' lives.
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What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have fina...
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December 9, 2024 at 4:23 PM
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from phot...
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December 13, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)