Sunday, May 31, 2015

What happened?

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The Legend of Clint Eastwood

Take a look back at the life and career of the iconic actor and director for his 85th birthday.

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Wim Wenders’s Open Road

Wim Wenders’s stunning landscape photographs, which show sites in the U.S., Germany, Cuba, Japan, Canada, Israel, and beyond, reveal inclinations similar to the ones that find expression in his films: the spirit of a traveller, and the sense of longing, melancholy, and mythology that the open road can inspire.

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Solar Plane Begins ‘Earhart Leg’ of Epic Flight

The pilot is expected to spend nearly a week aloft on an unprecedented nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean. more 

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Fernando Pessoa

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Women

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Parisian days, Lili Canis

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Saturday, May 30, 2015

JS Bach's Well Tempered Clavier and Fugue Animation



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Batman forever


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Calvin and Hobbes

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Ordinary landscapes, Didier Roubinoff


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Catcher In The Rye


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Why do we love our pets so much?

My dogs and me

 It is unclear just how far back pet-keeping goes. We know that, thousands of years ago, our ancestors likely kept some wolves around. They may have captured them young, domesticated them and found that they were useful for hunting. Gradually they became tamer companions and evolved into dogs. This could have been as early as 27,000 years ago according to a study published in May 2015.
 Ever since, humans have had dogs around, and keeping a pet has become a common part of many cultures. continue

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Lucid Dreaming, Romy Maxime


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ain’t nothing on

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“Barack Obama created FIFA,” said Senator John McCain

Calling the Obama Administration’s actions against the soccer organization “weak and ineffective,” Senator John McCain on Thursday proposed military action to “dismantle and destroy FIFA once and for all.”
 “These are people who only understand one thing: force,” McCain said on the floor of the United States Senate. “We must make FIFA taste the vengeful might and fury of the United States military.” McCain said that he was “completely unimpressed” by the Department of Justice’s arrests of several top FIFA lieutenants this week, calling the action “the kind of Band-Aid solution that this Administration, sadly, has become famous for.” “Rounding up a few flunkies in a hotel is meaningless when the leader of FIFA remains at large,” he said. “I will follow Sepp Blatter to the gates of Hell.”
 McCain requested a four-billion-dollar aid package for moderate elements within global soccer, and said that the United States should be prepared to put boots on the ground in Switzerland. Calling the use of force against FIFA “long overdue,” he placed the blame for the group’s alarming growth squarely on the shoulders of the White House.
“Barack Obama created FIFA,” he said.
The Borowitz Report

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Baby bears wrestle in the road in Yosemite National Park.

This video of two bear cubs wrestling in the middle of the road is ridiculously cute.

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Try not to copy

The common pet budgerigar is loved for its ability to mimic its owners. But it has another special trick – it can catch yawns from other budgies, suggesting it has some kind of empathy.

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hello sunshine


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Somebody shoot me.

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Aware and wary by Preethy Jayaraj

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Cormorant fisherman at sunset

Photograph by Abderazak Tissoukai

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

OK

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Le voyage d'Alberstein by Cyrus & Nicolas Cornut

Alberstein is a little man in a gray suit and a crushed hat who decides to undertake a journey with his ball in the valley of the Petit Morin, discovering the landscapes, the seasons and himself.
From the myth of Sisyphus to Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton to us mere mortals, Alberstein is the ultimate absurd hero.

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The Absurd Philosophy of Albert Camus Presented in a Short Animated Film by Alain De Botton

What is the meaning of life? This may sound simplistic or naïve, especially in relation to much contemporary philosophy, which assumes the question is incoherent and reserves its focus for smaller and smaller slices of experience. And, of course, prior to the rise of secular modernity, the question was answered for us—and still is for a great many people—by religion. One either believed the answer, through coercion or otherwise, or one kept quiet about it. But at least since Søren Kierkegaard, philosophers in the West have taken the question very seriously, and found all of the answers wanting. By the mid-twentieth century, there seemed to thinkers like Albert Camus to be no answer.
Life has no meaning. It is inherently absurd and purposeless.
 This Camus concluded in challenging essays like “The Myth of Sisyphus” and novels like L’Etranger, a book most of us know as The Stranger but which Alain de Botton, in his School of Life video here on Camus’ philosophy, translates as The Outsider.

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