Volkwagen Advertising from 1969
(Source: jaymug)
tumble77
Feb 10
Feb 09
“ All I want in life is security and freedom. Which is the weirdest balance. But you’re in this group, so you feel secure, but you’re flying every day and so you feel free. You know what I mean?
Feb 06
Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it.
—Stanley Kubrick (Hat tip to John Gruber)
(via smarterthaniam)
Feb 04
Jan 23
» Laura Dekker vows never to return home
for fear of “being taken into care” by Dutch child services for having become the youngest person to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe against their wishes.
Jan 22
- FATHER: Such a long time at sea by herself, with wind, rain and waves, she will be cured.
- DAUGHTER: No, I have an appetite for more …
Jan 21
The Believer spoke over the phone with Joan Didion
- JD: I think it develops into a fairly stable thing over time. I think it’s not at all stable at first. But then you kind of grow into the role you have made for yourself.
- BLVR: How do you gauge the distance between the role you have made for yourself—
- JD: —and the real person?
- BLVR: Yeah.
- JD: Well, I don’t know. The real person becomes the role you have made for yourself.
Jan 19
Jan 17
» Where the Generals Meditate …
WIRED goes inside the Pentagon’s Alt-Medicine Mecca.
Jan 16
» Violet Blue on Depression, Suicide and Asperger’s
I was always struck by the immense pressure the Stanford students felt to keep the illusion that they were doing well. We would refer to it as the Stanford Duck Syndrome: everyone gave the illusion that they were gliding elegantly across the water, but nobody could see that beneath the surface they were paddling like crazy to keep up.
My observation is that many people in tech culture experience similar pressure to maintain a public image. They are fearful of exposing their vulnerabilities to others or asking for help.
honey harvest (by tiger in a jar)
Jan 14
Jan 11
I want to go back in time and buy Feynman a beer. — Pat
Jan 10
“ He wasn’t acting, and neither was I, but at the same time it was a game.
Jan 09
“ they’re things that you learn in life.
