we pick ourselves undone

amemusicale: “Resolution” | Matt Corby

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:57:24 -0700

“Resolution” | Matt Corby

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"‎”It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind."

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:07:42 -0700

“‎”It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.””

- Naguib Mahfouz (via rabbitinthemoon)

And then I met a man called The Doctor. A man who could change...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:07:28 -0700

And then I met a man called The Doctor. A man who could change his face.

Day of the Moon // The Name Of The Doctor

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:07:20 -0700

Day of the Moon // The Name Of The Doctor

The Impossible (2012)

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:01:04 -0700

The Impossible (2012)

The Impossible (Spain, 2012)

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:47:01 -0700

The Impossible (Spain, 2012)

veronicaecholls: #OH MY GOD #IT IS STARTING

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:40:11 -0700

veronicaecholls:

#OH MY GOD #IT IS STARTING

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:39:57 -0700

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

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➥ Greek Mythology (+) ❝ Cassandra was the daughter of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:48:30 -0700

➥ Greek Mythology (+)

❝ Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy. In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo’s temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future. When Cassandra refused Apollo’s attempted seduction, he placed a curse on her so that her predictions and those of all her descendants would not be believed. While Cassandra foresaw the destruction of Troy (she warned the Trojans about the Trojan Horse, the death of Agamemnon, and her own demise), she was unable to do anything to forestall these tragedies since no one believed her. At the fall of Troy, she sought shelter in the temple of Athena, where she was violently abducted and raped by Ajax the Lesser. Cassandra was then taken as a concubine by King Agamemnon of Mycenae. Unbeknownst to Agamemnon, while he was away at war, his wife, Clytemnestra, had begun an affair with Aegisthus. Clytemnestra and Aegisthus then murdered both Agamemnon and Cassandra. Some sources mention that Cassandra and Agamemnon had twin boys, Teledamus and Pelops, both of whom were killed by Aegisthus. She is a figure both of the epic tradition and of tragedy. ❞

hints-of-sarcasm: by Adams Doyle | Biography | Shop

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:28:45 -0700

hints-of-sarcasm:

by Adams Doyle | Biography | Shop

Dowling Duncan and redesigning the American Dollar: Why the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:28:22 -0700

Dowling Duncan and redesigning the American Dollar:

Why the size?
We have kept the width the same as the existing dollars. However we have changed the size of the note so that the one dollar is shorter and the 100 dollar is the longest. When stacked on top of each other it is easy to see how much money you have. It also makes it easier for the visually impaired to distinguish between notes.

Why a vertical format?
When we researched how notes are used we realized people tend to handle and deal with money vertically rather than horizontally. You tend to hold a wallet or purse vertically when searching for notes. The majority of people hand over notes vertically when making purchases. All machines accept notes vertically. Therefore a vertical note makes more sense.

Why different colors?
It’s one of the strongest ways graphically to distinguish one note from another.

Why these designs?
We wanted a concept behind the imagery so that the image directly relates to the value of each note. We also wanted the notes to be educational, not only for those living in America but visitors as well. Each note uses a black and white image depicting a particular aspect of American history and culture. They are then overprinted with informational graphics or a pattern relating to that particular image.

$1 – The first African American president
$5 – The five biggest native American tribes
$10 – The bill of rights, the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution
$20 – 20th Century America
$50 – The 50 States of America
$100 – The first 100 days of President Franklin Roosevelt. During this time he led the congress to pass more important legislations than most presidents pass in their entire term. This helped fight the economic crises at the time of the great depression. Ever since, every new president has been judged on how well they have done during the first 100 days of their term.

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suicideblonde: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Anne Hathaway leaving...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:25:53 -0700

suicideblonde:

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Anne Hathaway leaving the Met Gala in NYC, May 6th

"But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:25:14 -0700

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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.

We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

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- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via ratak-monodosico)

raviolitimelord: riddle-my-hiddles: tardisparadox: thestarsgow...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:24:58 -0700

raviolitimelord:

riddle-my-hiddles:

tardisparadox:

thestarsgowaltzingout:emilytea10:invisiblecashews:

Actually, the photographs are spaced ten years apart, not sixteen.

1912 to 1922.

The young, homeless (but no less dapper) wanderer shown in the first survived the sinking of the Titanic and swam to the shores of West Egg. There he built a life and a large, empty house, in an effort to win the heart of the wealthy, upper class woman he’d fallen in love with a decade earlier and had been separated from against his will.

He shed his earlier identity, and changed his name to reflect his new station. Jack was now known as Jay Gatsby, the eccentric millionaire who threw parties every night in the hopes that one day his love would show up and spin with him as they had long ago in the dance hall of the lower decks.

#and he still ends up dead floating in the water

holy shit

And then, at the beginning of Inception, he starts out washed up on a shore.

still no oscar

Leo’s entire film career of unrelated projects has better continuity than glee

louiswillums: Insecurity kills all that is beautiful.

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:24:21 -0700

louiswillums:

Insecurity kills all that  is beautiful.

ferroseed: people who think tumblr is a “secret place” that no one knows about

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:08:46 -0700

ferroseed:

people who think tumblr is a “secret place” that no one knows about

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