December 2010
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The Painting Techniques of Mark Rothko: No. 16... →
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WatchLouis Vuitton. I think it is one of the greatest commercials ever. I can’t even call it a commercial. It is a great film. Wherever I go, I always have these words in mind:
”What is a journey?
A journey is not a trip.
It’s not a vacation.
it’s a process. A discovery.
It’s a process of self-discovery.
A journey brings us face to face with ourselves.
A journey shows us...
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Tim Burton →
Another exhibition website that I like a lot - Tim Burton at MoMA (New York).
There are 3 times more stars in the universe than previously estimated: new calculation is 300 sextillion. That’s a 3 with 23 zeros after it.
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http://www.monet2010.com/en#/home/ →
Brilliant website of Monet exhibition in Paris
30 Second Speech by Bryan Dyson, Former CEO of...
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. They are Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four Balls - Family, Health, Friends and Spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be...
“Genius is eternal patience.”
– Michelangelo
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A very interesting lecture given by Danish architect Kristian Villadsen (Gehl Architects) in Montreal.
Topics: urban planning in Copenhagen, cold and hot climates.
Language: English, subtitles: Russian
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WatchPresentation of The 8-House project (Bjarke Ingels Group, Denmark)
Language: Danish, subtitles: English
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http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ →
New service by Google:
‘Using this tool, you can compare words and phrases from several languages across centuries by charting their frequency in books, an exercise that can shed light on everything from rock stars and religious figures to gender studies and epidemiology. Simply enter one word, or several. Then click the wildly understated “Search lots of books.” Observe and marvel.
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“- Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from here? - That depends...”
– Lewis Carroll ‘Alice in Wonderland’
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a...”
– Yann Martel “Life of Pi”
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“An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.”
– Arab proverb
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“Art tells you things you don’t know you need to know until you know them”
– Peter Schjeldahl (art critic)
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“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer