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29 December 12

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“I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it’s got lots of accounting going on in it—stones and buildings and trees and air—but that’s not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.”
Photo and quote by Joel Meyerowitz.

“I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it’s got lots of accounting going on in it—stones and buildings and trees and air—but that’s not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.”

Photo and quote by Joel Meyerowitz.

3 October 11

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“ People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. ‘For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life. If you didn’t know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you’d seen. They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the ‘mind adventures’ got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren’t unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee. So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you’re in a science fiction movie. And whisper, ‘The creature is regenerating itself.

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George Carlin (via smiller555)

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(via biglyre) I love George Carlin like a father even if he had a coke problem. “Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.”

(Source: blknymph)

15 July 09

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“ If you can’t tell me why your favorite language sucks, you don’t know it well enough.

— Marco (via inky)

10 June 09

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internet addiction

my friend: i just dont understand how you can spend all day on the internet
me: because life is far more interesting online
my friend: well you wouldnt hav enjoyed watching the harbour seal beg for fish from the fishing boats like you did today if you didnt leave the house and come out with me
me: yeh, but there's probably a video on youtube about harbour seals begging for fish...

5 June 09

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“ The average American walks about 900 miles a year. The average American enjoys about 25 gallons of alcohol a year. Ergo, the average American gets about 36 miles per gallon.

— Jose Cuervo (via paulacabbage) (via motionsensorsoundtrack)

3 June 09

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“ And now it’s late, close to the wolfing hour of soul-lack. But she knows, lying curled here, behind him, in the darkness of this small room, with the somehow liquid background sounds of Paris, that hers has returned, at least for the meantime, reeled entirely in on its silver thread and warmly socketed.

— William Gibson

13 May 09

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“ The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

— Armistead Maupin (via kari-shma)

12 May 09

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“ If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, my illegal logging business succeeds.

— Stephen T. Colbert

9 May 09

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“ The Encyclopedia Galactica, in its chapter on Love states that it is far too complicated to define. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: Avoid, if you are able to.

— Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (via lifeasart)

15 April 09

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“ There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another that states that this has already happened.

— Douglas Adams (via spytap)

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh