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May 3
theeconomist:

Daily chart: the world’s most expensive art. When Edvard Munch painted “The Scream” he did not have enough money to buy canvas, so the painting that sold on May 2nd at Sotheby’s for $120m is on cardboard. Yet the sale is only a record in nominal terms: adjusted for inflation, several more expensive paintings have been sold.

theeconomist:

Daily chart: the world’s most expensive artWhen Edvard Munch painted “The Scream” he did not have enough money to buy canvas, so the painting that sold on May 2nd at Sotheby’s for $120m is on cardboard. Yet the sale is only a record in nominal terms: adjusted for inflation, several more expensive paintings have been sold.

Lisbon Revisited

Álvaro de Campos

Lisbon Revisited

(1923) 

NÃO: Não quero nada.  
Já disse que não quero nada. 

Não me venham com conclusões!  
A única conclusão é morrer. 

Não me tragam estéticas!  
Não me falem em moral! 

Tirem-me daqui a metafísica!  
Não me apregoem sistemas completos, não me enfileirem conquistas  
Das ciências (das ciências, Deus meu, das ciências!) —  
Das ciências, das artes, da civilização moderna! 

Que mal fiz eu aos deuses todos? 

Se têm a verdade, guardem-na! 

Sou um técnico, mas tenho técnica só dentro da técnica.  
Fora disso sou doido, com todo o direito a sê-lo.  
Com todo o direito a sê-lo, ouviram? 

Não me macem, por amor de Deus! 

Queriam-me casado, fútil, quotidiano e tributável?  
Queriam-me o contrário disto, o contrário de qualquer coisa?  
Se eu fosse outra pessoa, fazia-lhes, a todos, a vontade.  
Assim, como sou, tenham paciência!  
Vão para o diabo sem mim,  
Ou deixem-me ir sozinho para o diabo!  
Para que havemos de ir juntos? 

Não me peguem no braço!  
Não gosto que me peguem no braço.  Quero ser sozinho.   
Já disse que sou sozinho!  
Ah, que maçada quererem que eu seja da companhia! 

Ó céu azul — o mesmo da minha infância —  
Eterna verdade vazia e perfeita!   
Ó macio Tejo ancestral e mudo,  
Pequena verdade onde o céu se reflete!  
Ó mágoa revisitada, Lisboa de outrora de hoje!  
Nada me dais, nada me tirais, nada sois que eu me sinta. 

Deixem-me em paz!  Não tardo, que eu nunca tardo…  
E enquanto tarda o Abismo e o Silêncio quero estar sozinho!

(Source: revista.agulha.nom.br)

janderfranco:

Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted.

janderfranco:

Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted.

escritorenelaire:

Alonso Quijano en su biblioteca; grabado de Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883)

escritorenelaire:

Alonso Quijano en su biblioteca; grabado de Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883)

newyorker:

Cartoon of the day. For more cartoons from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/HdFGUh

newyorker:

Cartoon of the day. For more cartoons from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/HdFGUh

(Source: newyorker.com)

Mar 8
hoodoothatvoodoo:

By Gerhard Riebicke

hoodoothatvoodoo:

By Gerhard Riebicke

Dec 4
elkamikaze:

WE SEE WHAT WE WANT

elkamikaze:

WE SEE WHAT WE WANT

life:

Thanksgiving wasn’t celebrated as a national holiday until 1863, when  President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday of November to be  “a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth  in the Heavens” and asked Americans, wherever they were, to use the time  to “fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal  the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent  with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony,  tranquility and Union.”
Presidents after Lincoln followed his example  and began calling for a day of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of that  month each year, though it was up to the states to actually make them  holidays.
(see more — Where Holiday Traditions Come From)

life:

Thanksgiving wasn’t celebrated as a national holiday until 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday of November to be “a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens” and asked Americans, wherever they were, to use the time to “fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.”

Presidents after Lincoln followed his example and began calling for a day of Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of that month each year, though it was up to the states to actually make them holidays.

(see moreWhere Holiday Traditions Come From)

life:

From John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s nomination acceptance address, now commonly referred to as “the New Frontier speech,” delivered at the Democratic National Convention, July 15, 1960, in Los Angeles:

“We are not here to curse the darkness; we are here to light a candle. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: If we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future. Today our concern must be with that future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.”

On the 48th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, here, an exclusive look at unpublished, never-seen photos of our 35th president.

life:

From John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s nomination acceptance address, now commonly referred to as “the New Frontier speech,” delivered at the Democratic National Convention, July 15, 1960, in Los Angeles:

“We are not here to curse the darkness; we are here to light a candle. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: If we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future. Today our concern must be with that future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.”

On the 48th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, here, an exclusive look at unpublished, never-seen photos of our 35th president.

particularparticules:

Psyche

particularparticules:

Psyche

(Source: dr-johndorian)

soundthat:

Bologna, Via Rizzoli, anni 40b by Ioffas

soundthat:

Bologna, Via Rizzoli, anni 40b by Ioffas

soundthat:

Behind Marilyn 01 by SilentOkami

soundthat:

Behind Marilyn 01 by SilentOkami

http://m.elespectador.com/impreso/opinion/columna-304751-de-vuelta-al-estado-confesional

Oct 6

newyorker:

Many of the tributes to Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday, have mentioned Apple’s famous “1984” Super Bowl ad. Apple also created a number of memorable print-ad campaigns, many of which appeared in the pages of The New Yorker. Click here for a look back, from the Macintosh Personal Computer to the iMac.

Oct 5
soundthat:

On Prep St. by ryanstrong

soundthat:

On Prep St. by ryanstrong