Artist Eero Saarinen’s list of his wife’s good qualities, ca. 1954, from the Lists, to-dos and illustrated inventories of great artists.
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
—Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson in his timeless Kenyon College commencement address, May 20, 1990. (via explore-blog)
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For as long as a dream lives inside you, there is a plan for its time in space.
-The Universe
Celestial Homework – a reading list for Allen Ginsberg’s class “The History of the Beats.”
Complement with Carl Sagan’s reading list, the books Alan Turing checked out of his school library, and David Foster Wallace’s syllabus.
A Conversation with Benjamin Clymer of Hodinkee (by HypebeastTV)
“The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.”
- James Baldwin
“On Language, Race, and the Black Writer
Duke Ellington’s Symphony in Black, Starring a 19-Year-old Billie Holiday
In September of 1935 Paramount Pictures released a nine-minute movie remarkable in several ways. Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life is one of the earliest cinematic explorations of African-American culture for a mass audience. It features Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing his first extended composition. And perhaps most notably, it stars Billie Holiday in her first filmed performance.
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![school trip with kalle.
You never want this type of innocence to be lost. But managing my expectations means accepting that I can’t protect her from all of society’s [f]laws.
But cheers to our former innocence. (at American Museum of Natural History)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/9fc8727454da4a6f8b02e15146aeb4e5/tumblr_mn3srmxaNA1qfs7gro1_500.jpg)
