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For you Peggy :)
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Landry Fields and Jeremy Lin’s new handshake: skimming through book, taking off glasses, then placing inside pocket protector.
Note: Landry Fields graduated from Stanford, Lin from Harvard.
TOO cute! This is for you andy bro
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“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” — John Lennon
Take me here
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How To Talk To Girls At Parties: Karl Lagerfeld in 24 Hours -
8:00 A.M. I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before—the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours. I wear a long, full-length white shirt, in a material called poplin imperial, made for me by…
For you Ruth
Be mine? Please
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This story is amazing:
Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approximately. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
4 minutes later:
The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.6 minutes:
A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.10 minutes:
A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.45 minutes:
The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.1 hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.
This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.
*In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?
*Do we stop to appreciate it?
The questions raised:
*Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made…
How many other things are we missing?
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Space
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Oh yeah :)
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“I do love the internet; I do love to search on there. My one reservation is that it makes the online generation dependent on it. We didn’t have internet, we had libraries and bookshops. I remember going to the bookshops of Charing Cross road, sitting on my knees and not being able to afford the big photography books but looking at them trying to understand the lighting in those images. (To Marcus) Do you remember us sitting there together looking at Guy Bourdin photos and wondering, how did they light this? And of course you couldn’t just rip that page out. But today you can just copy it from the internet and take it to the studio. And all this availability is blinding our creativity. That is my fear. We’re not trigerring anything in the brain. It’s just there to copy or to adpat, but there’s no effort to go find something. There’s no accident, no surprise. Today, if you’re doing a double page spread of a girl who has to be lying down, you can go online and see hundreds of spreads with the girl lying down and just find a position; it’s blinding. So where’s the new generation? Why are we not seeing some crazy young photographer doing this crazy fucked-up picture that we all love? There’s no fire. No fire because there’s too much smoke. In the beginning we weren’t in Vogue. We were in nowhere. We were just doing the pictures until someone came and said, ‘We like that - we want to publish it.’ We had time to grow and crawl, to learn to walk and talk.” — Mert Alas
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Wash U in the fall. Pretty beautiful I’d say.
Take me here. Please.
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