Russian Lullaby

David Foster Wallace on Ambition, Animated Maria Popova,...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:31:45 +0400

David Foster Wallace on Ambition, Animated
Maria Popova, brainpickings.org

“If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.”On March 4, 1996, WNYC’s Leonard Lopate sat down with David Foster Wallace — cultural critic, articulator of the ineffable, tragic prophet of the meaning o…

literaryjukebox: True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:30:06 +0400

literaryjukebox:

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care — with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

David Foster Wallace in The Pale King

Song: “Slow Revolution” by Alexi Murdoch

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Анна Рыжова’s Photosfacebook.com

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:41:23 +0400

Анна Рыжова’s Photos
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Это реальный скриншот сайта wordpress.ru :-)Интересно, это...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:35:56 +0400

Это реальный скриншот сайта wordpress.ru :-)
Интересно, это русские редакторы так прикололись?

Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman discusses Antifragility at NYPL.mp4

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:50:28 +0400

Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman discusses Antifragility at NYPL.mp4:

fistylo, youtube.com

Two wise men on stage.

The Dark Side of Big Data Nassim N. Taleb, wired.com Wired...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:25:36 +0400

The Dark Side of Big Data
Nassim N. Taleb, wired.com

Wired Opinion from Nassim N. Taleb (of Black Swan fame): “Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information.”
Nassim N. Taleb

Timeline Photos | Facebookfacebook.com Sunny Day in Moscow.

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:20:43 +0400

Timeline Photos | Facebook
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Sunny Day in Moscow.

Evgeniy Kobylyanskiy’s Photosfacebook.com Чудный рейтинг.

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:16:13 +0400

Evgeniy Kobylyanskiy’s Photos
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Чудный рейтинг.

What’s Inside America’s Banks? Megan Garber, theatlantic.com The...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:33:11 +0400

What’s Inside America’s Banks?
Megan Garber, theatlantic.com

The financial crisis had many causes—too much borrowing, foolish investments, misguided regulation—but at its core, the panic resulted from a lack of transparency. The reason no one wanted to lend to or trade with the banks durin…

RT @longreads: “What’s Inside America’s Banks?” @FrankPartnoy, @eisingerj, @TheAtlantic on the risks http://flip.it/X6AtX #longreads

Believe in yourself by Jay Daley500px.com

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:43:40 +0400

Believe in yourself by Jay Daley
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David Foster Wallace’s iconic 2005 Kenyon College...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:59:18 +0400

David Foster Wallace’s iconic 2005 Kenyon College graduation address. Context and transcript here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/12/this-is-water-david-foster-wallace/

Part 2 here: http://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water-2

37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:01:22 +0400

37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady:

By David Zax, fastcompany.com

Don’t build a fast company, Jason Fried tells Fast Company. Build a slow one.
Jason Fried is a founder and CEO of 37signals, a software company based in Chicago. Fried also treats 37signals as something of a laboratory for innovati…

artchipel: Allan Teger (USA) - Bodyscapes® | High Wire,...

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:49:46 +0400

artchipel:

Allan Teger (USA) - Bodyscapes® | High Wire, Fore!

The Bodyscapes® of self-taught American photographer Allan Teger is a series of black and white photographs depicting miniature scenes on the nude body mimicking various landscapes. The images are not double exposures and uses no digital manipulation, only small scale figures arranged on the naked form to illustrate predominantly outdoor activities, where a belly-button may act as a lake or a sculpted derrière as a mountain: “I remember the moment that the idea for Bodyscapes® came to me. I was thinking that the shape and structure of the universe repeated itself at every level and suddenly I had the image in my mind of a skier going down a breast. This was it - the universe repeating its shapes - a body looking like a mountain. It was also an example of two realities coexisting. The picture could be seen as a landscape and it could also be seen as a body. Although they were different, both perceptions were right at the same time. I knew instantly that I had an entire series of images waiting to be captured on film.” The ongoing project started in 1976, with the set updated regularly to this day, most are shot with a medium format mamiya RB67 and either tri-X or t-max film. (cf. Designboom)

Please find more body landscapes here

[more Allan Teger | found at Designboom]

Songs of War - Al Jazeera World - Al Jazeera English

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:23:02 +0400

Songs of War - Al Jazeera World - Al Jazeera English

First Contact by CMGW Photography on Flickr.

Sat, 26 May 2012 14:10:57 +0400

First Contact by CMGW Photography on Flickr.

Nassim Taleb

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:12:48 +0400

Nassim Taleb:

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Nassim Nicholas Talebfacebook.com NOISE AND SIGNALTHE...

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:11:41 +0400

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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NOISE AND SIGNAL
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF NEUROTICISM Imagine someone of the type we call neurotic in common parlance. He is wiry, looks contorted, and speaks with an uneven voice. His necks moves around when he tries to express himseld. When…

raskalov_vit: Moscow State Universitylivejournal.com Moscow...

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:10:56 +0400

raskalov_vit: Moscow State University
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Moscow State University
На днях в Москве проездом был старый друг dedmaxopka и мы с ним исполнили нашу давнюю мечту. Побывали на звезде ГЗ МГУ. На протяжении трех лет мне казалось, что сюда попасть невозможно, но как говорится невозмож…

raskalov_vit: Moscow State University http://flpbd.it/981HO

John Cleese on Creativity (by wuvwebs)

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:25:23 +0400

John Cleese on Creativity (by wuvwebs)

"Give Frodo Baggins a mobile phone and the story of Lord of The Rings gets considerably shorter."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 07:16:50 +0400

“Give Frodo Baggins a mobile phone and the story of Lord of The Rings gets considerably shorter.”

- Paul Mason. LSE Lecture 30 January 2012

http://www.scribd.com/paul_mason_01/d/79963708-Mason-Lse-Lecture-Jan-2012

(via johnbattelle)