Peter Santiago

Bio: Notorious for Youthful Folly, Jubilance, & Hi-Jinks.
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crashinglybeautiful:

lamouche: via haze)

travellinglight:

[via unpalombaro]

I.: visto qui, m’è venuto in mente il tuo t. ciao :)

Travellinglight, thank you for inspiring tonight’s nightmares ;) This is why I never exceed more than 3 feet of ocean water in Miami Beach, after that it’s bull shark country!

crashinglybeautiful:

Maciek Duczynski - Norway (from: lamouche, melanne, agaain & moleskinelife)

This image captures everything. Man, the precipice, and the abyss.

whatsupstairs:

spending my evening with kansinsky at the guggenheim. 5th ave and 89th. new york city.

Whatsupstairs, this is an awesome pic.

dorazora:

velveteenrabbit:

i12bent:

Camus, happy and absurd - Loomis Dean, LIFE

“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire”

“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”

- A Happy Death, 1971

ooooh, this makes my heart go POW.

A clip from the 2009 documentary “Objectified” which is all about industrial design. Here, we see the wonderfully creative genius of Jonathan Ive, as he talks about the Mac, and specifically the Unibody design of the MacBook/MacBook Air & MacBook Pro.

crashinglybeautiful:

lamouche:

La notte via www.motorbar.co.uk

nevver:

When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a NCAA Quarterback.

fuckyeahexistentialism:

heathermichele:

shynessisnice:

oneradhuman:

One of my favorites. Camus-The Rebel

The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action. To love someone whom one will never see again is to give a cry of exultation as one perishes in the flames of passion. One lives only in and for the moment, in order to achieve ‘the brief and vivid union of a tempestuous heart united to the tempest’ (Lermentov)

I accidentally reblogged this to my personal blog instead of this one.

“ First, we will set up a single goal to represent educational success, which will take four years to achieve no matter what is being taught. We will attach a large economic reward to it that usually has nothing to do with what has been learned. We will urge large numbers of people who do not possess adequate ability to try to achieve the goal, wait until they have spent a lot of time and money, and then deny it to them. We will stigmatize everyone who doesn’t meet the goal. We will call the goal a “B.A. ”

Charles Murray in an arresting piece on America’s absurd, outmoded, socioeconomically cruel university system (thanks dad!). While at Bard I’d not have understood his points; my time at LSU illustrated his thesis: for many students, the B.A. is an artificial goal, often unattainable and usually unrelated to their subsequent careers; it is, in most cases, a token reward for waiting and surviving in the back of the classroom for a few years while sinking deep into debt. Perhaps its primary function is to communicate that one was able to afford not to work for some years: a class badge. (via mills)

Economic stratification goes hand and hand with the stratification of education. This passage dovetails nicely with your excellent post on intelligence.

crashinglybeautiful:

Henry Miller from lamouche & are2)

“ L’inferno dei viventi non è qualcosa che sarà; se ce n’è uno, è quello che è già qui, l’inferno che abitiamo tutti i giorni, che formiamo stando insieme. Due modi ci sono per non soffrirne. Il primo riesce facile a molti: accettare l’inferno e diventarne parte fino al punto di non vederlo più. Il secondo è rischioso ed esige attenzione e apprendimento continui: cercare e saper riconoscere chi e cosa, in mezzo all’inferno, non è inferno, e farlo durare, e dargli spazio. ”

Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili

“The hell of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it’s what is already here, the hell that we live everyday, that we create by being together. There are two ways to avoid the suffering. The first comes easy for many: accept the hell and become such a part of it that you no longer see it. The second is risky and requires constant prudence and understanding: seek to know how to recognize who and what, in the midst of hell, are not hell, and make them endure, and give them space.”

This is Marco Polo’s wise advice to Kublai Khan in Invisible Cities. I’d like to think I’m among the second, riskier breed, but suspect that I’m merely one among many.

If we living souls really are stuck in the gutter, is it better to look up at the stars, or return our gaze to earth and build a boggy castle out of mud?

(via tragos)

dorazora:

kvetchlandia:

Man Ray Untamed Virgin (Vierge non apprivoisée) 1964

“ Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. ”

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via underfundig) (via booklover) (via untemporale) (via tragos)

tragos:

ontheborderland:

The myth has gone on for years now that Shakespeare invented about 1,700 words still common in English. Not true. He Anglicized many Latin and Greek words, among other languages, thus coining new English words. But to be invented, a word must have no etymology before a single person imagines it.

He is said to have invented “assassination,” but what he did was derive it from the Medieval Latin “assassinare,” which means “to kill an important person.”

All of the words he is reputed to have invented can be explained this way. He did, however, devise first name uses for quite a few words, including Viola, Jessica, and Adrian. The first is Latin, the second Hebrew, the third Greek.

Sidenote: Sir Isaac Newton Anglicized “gravitas,” which is Latin for “weight,” into “gravity.” As he was the first to discover the mechanism and its properties, how they work, he had to come up with a word for it. No one else had ever called gravity anything.

(Image via www.nlcphs.org, text via Listverse)

What are some examples of words coined in a vacuum of etymology? (That sounds like it’s a challenge. It’s not. I’m just really curious to know.)