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October 2010
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The Stage / News / Exclusive: Duckie to hold... →
“In the late 1800’s, the pioneering French doctor Philippe Tissié observed that...”
– That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger - New York Times
“after thirty years of prohibition [in the UK], the number of heroin addicts has...”
– The politics of the drug war | Flat Earth News
great website for international contemporary... →
September 2010
8 posts
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
– The “shortest horror story ever written”, attributed to Frederic Brown. Futility Closet (via ontheborderland & theshipthatflew)
- I -
Strange children should smile at each other and say, “Let’s play.”
Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
from: nick-the-stripper
they humm of mystery: Song of Childhood By Peter... →
sealmaiden:
When the child was a child
It walked with its arms swinging, wanted the brook to be a river, the river to be a torrent, and this puddle to be the sea.
When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.
When the child was a…
“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive...”
– After Dark In The Playing Fields (Quis est iste qui venit?)
“I thought, on the train, how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of...”
– Wallace Stevens, 1904 (via nevver)
Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language →
crashinglybeautiful:
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when...
“Our unconscious existence is the real one, and the conscious world is a kind of...”
– Carl Jung (via fuckyeahcarljung)
July 2010
1 post
BBC iPlayer - Sacred Music: Series 2: Gorecki and... →
great doc
June 2010
8 posts
Horseboy on Google street view →
How do you cut the state by a quarter? - Indy →
£19,000,000. That’s Right. 19 Million Pounds. «... →
BBC News - 'Stay away' warning over Battersea Park... →
police clamping down on flash mobs…
“Remembering Kazuo Ohno (1906-June 2010)
Kazuo Ohno was a miraculous Butoh...”
– Akaji Maro (Dairakudakan) (via japan-photo)
The social dreaming experiment | Alison Flood |... →
May 2010
2 posts
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Flying solo: Ravens by photographer Masahisa... →
(via lyricsuite)
April 2010
7 posts
“Goldman Sachs arranged mortgage investments
without telling clients
that the...”
– BBC News - Goldman Sachs ‘profited at clients’ expense’
“the economic impact of theatre on the economy is £2.6bn, with every public pound...”
– Culture Capital: how arts funding became a live issue | Lyn Gardner | Stage | guardian.co.uk
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How to make animal noises in different languages. →
sixstepfailure:
Very useful when traveling abroad.
MOORE4HACKNEY » Manifesto →
independent candidate for Hackney/Stoke Newington… worth keeping an eye on
“They brought a woman from the street
And made her sit in the stalls
By threats...”
– Theatre of Catastrophe - Howard Barker - The Bite of The Night (via adownpour)
March 2010
14 posts
Flash Mobs Take Violent Turn in Philadelphia -... →
“Art Criticism is to artists as ornithology is to birds.”
– Barnett Newman (via lencowgill) (via sibastian)
Email notifications on Google Wave - super useful →
(explains how to get notifications in your email inbox whenever a Wave gets updated)
Alex Deane: Demolish the myth that safety, in and... →
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Op-Ed Columnist - The Wal-Mart Hippies -... →
very interesting take on the US Tea Party, and it’s similarity to ’60s New Left radicals…
Not everyone can be an artist | Jonathan Jones |... →
interesting…
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“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via tiffanyhoran)
Visiting Artists and Academics Petition →
important petition, take a look - to be delivered mid-March
February 2010
8 posts
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“They perhaps asked why you wanted to go on the stage, and you could give no...”
– Edward Gordon Craig, quoted by GOOSSUN گوسان: “THEATRE IS THE PASS TO FREEDOM”
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