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The winged bat-people of Pluto, in Fantastic Adventures, January...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:30:20 +0200

The winged bat-people of Pluto, in Fantastic Adventures, January 1940 (via imgur)

"Cars didn’t end up awarding us freedom, nor did they serve to better connect us to our friends..."

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:30:10 +0200

“Cars didn’t end up awarding us freedom, nor did they serve to better connect us to our friends and communities. On the contrary: they turned out to be temporarily exciting engines of isolation that sort of despoiled the environment along the way.”

- Motherboard, How Facebook and Brooklyn Killed America’s Obsession With Cars

The official logo of the end of marijuana prohibition (via...

Mon, 27 May 2013 22:30:21 +0200

The official logo of the end of marijuana prohibition (via Capitol Hill Seattle)

"Okay. That’s enough of the Moon."

Sun, 26 May 2013 22:30:00 +0200

“Okay. That’s enough of the Moon.”

- Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 mission transcripts

by Vivian Maier

Sat, 25 May 2013 22:30:07 +0200

by Vivian Maier

"The morality of debt and the morality of work are the most powerful ideological weapons in the hands..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:30:10 +0200

“The morality of debt and the morality of work are the most powerful ideological weapons in the hands of those running the current system.”

- David Graeber, A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse

Shannon has new canvases. (on Instagram)

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:30:17 +0200

Shannon has new canvases.

(on Instagram)

"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:30:05 +0200

“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Girls in the Windows by Ormond Gigli

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:30:29 +0200

Girls in the Windows by Ormond Gigli

"I would say any government that sets the welfare of the comfortably off above the welfare of the..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:30:29 +0200

“I would say any government that sets the welfare of the comfortably off above the welfare of the old, the young, the sick, the poor, the oppressed, the disabled … well, call me old-fashioned but any government like that wants hosing down the drain.”

- Ian Martin, 60 thoughts about turning 60, The Guardian

‘Layers’ light installation at the Swedish Institute, Paris, by...

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:07 +0200

‘Layers’ light installation at the Swedish Institute, Paris, by Daniel Rybakken (via dailytonic)

"We are now a nation of experts, with millions of people who know the meaning of everything that they..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:30:15 +0200

“We are now a nation of experts, with millions of people who know the meaning of everything that they haven’t actually experienced.”

- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in The New Yorker

This image says “Amsterdam” even more than the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:30:16 +0200

This image says “Amsterdam” even more than the classic canal scenes.

(by amsterdamcyclechic)

"We are as gods and might as well get good at it"

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:30:02 +0200

““We are as gods and might as well get good at it””

- Stewart Brand in the first Whole Earth Catalog

Siren (2012) by Ray Ceaser (spotted at KochxBos)

Sat, 04 May 2013 18:30:15 +0200

Siren (2012) by Ray Ceaser

(spotted at KochxBos)

"Have you noticed that Amsterdam’s concentric canals resemble the circles of hell? The middle-class..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:30:10 +0200

“Have you noticed that Amsterdam’s concentric canals resemble the circles of hell? The middle-class hell, of course, peopled with bad dreams.”

- Albert Camus, The Fall, p283

The not-quite-flat Earth (via Wikipedia)

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:30:27 +0200

The not-quite-flat Earth (via Wikipedia)

"The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:30:21 +0200

“The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.”

- A.N. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, p 41, 1926

(via Pablo Colapinto’s thesis)

Photo

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:30:26 +0200

"…anxiety is part and parcel of scientific enterprise, the haunting absence that directs research to..."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:30:25 +0200

“…anxiety is part and parcel of scientific enterprise, the haunting absence that directs research to the unknown.”

- Paul Robbins and Sarah A. Moore, Ecological anxiety disorder: diagnosing the politics of the Anthropocene