Just how small are atoms? Fantastic animation from TED-Ed, a fine addition to these visual guides to grasping the scale of the universe.
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Happy birthday, Lujainypants.
Happy Awesome day to you too. I know this day has been a gift to all humanity for the past nineteen years. You are most welcome. ;)
(I couldn’t find an Elrond gif, so pretend there’s one here.)
Metaphysics, like music, springs from the experience of infinity. They both grow on heights and cause vertigo. I have always wondered why those who have produced masterpieces in these domains have not all gone mad. Music more than any other art requires so much concentration that one could easily, after creative moments, lose one’s mind. All great composers ought to either commit suicide or become insane at the height of their creative powers. Are not all those aspiring to infinity on the road to madness?
Emil Cioran (via silencemadenietzschecry)
I believe the 21st century will be a world without art in the sense that we have it now. It will be a world without objects, where the human being can be on such a high level of consciousness and has such a strong mental state that he or she can transmit thoughts and energy to other people, without needing objects in between. So there will not be sculptures, or paintings, or installations. There will just be the artist standing in front of a public, which is developed enough to receive a message or energy. They will just sit or stand, like the Samurai in old Japan, looking at each other and transmitting energy. This is the future world I see as an artist: a non-objective world.
Marina Abramović. Interview with Louwrien Wijers and Johan Pijnappel. 1990 (via intheshadowplay)
The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
Chuck Palahniuk (via aviruswithshoes)
I just have to come face to face with the fact that I am not gifted. I can appreciate art and I love music but…it’s sad really, because I feel like I have a lot to express and I…am not gifted.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (via wandering-eyes)
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Paul Klee (via cartographe)
The soul is like a wild animal—tough, resilient, savvy, self-sufficient and yet exceedingly shy. If we want to see a wild animal, the last thing we should do is to go crashing through the woods, shouting for the creature to come out. But if we are willing to walk quietly into the woods and sit silently for an hour or two at the base of a tree, the creature we are waiting for may well emerge, and out of the corner of an eye we will catch a glimpse of the precious wildness we seek.
Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak (via contrariansoul)
I can say with great certainty and absolute honesty that I did not know what love was until I knew what love was not.
(via wnq-anonymous)