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On Monsters
Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights, Third TryptichCC Image by cactusbones via Fotopedia What is the role of the artist in dealing with the dark side of humanity? How do we portray evil? My...
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Avoiding Another Bamiyan
Reblogged from Anarya's Blog: I do not usually write posts like this, but I find this issue quite disconcerting and thought I should raise more awareness about it. Please note that there is a petition...
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Quote for Today: Erich Fromm
Sculpture by Bryan Alexander Davis© bitterherbs via CCLicense The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and...
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Animated Construction: MEGALOMANIA by Jonathan Gales
Jonathan Gales is a film maker and designer specializing in architectural subjects. He is also a founding member of Factory Fifteen, “a creative studio that works in film direction, production design,...
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Quote for Today: John F. Kennedy
The Clowns of War Arguing in Hell by Jose Clemente Orozco© Wonderlane with CCLicense Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind… War will exist until that distant day when the...
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Creativity from the Storm: The Flood of 2009
Looking out the front door the next morning In late April 2009, after days of rain, our neighborhood flooded during a heavy storm. Construction in our area had created vulnerabilities that had not...
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Quote for Today: Iain M. Banks
B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Public Domain Image via Pixabay It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly...
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Quote for Today: Paulo Coelho
© ZIGOR garcia ararias with CCLicense How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can’t destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us...
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Quote for Today: Akiba Ben Joseph
© Learning Lark with CCLicense The paper burns, but the words fly free. ―Akiba Ben Joseph
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Dawn without Memory: ISIS in Palmyra
Last May, the Islamic State took the ancient city of Palmyra. Why should we care that it is being destroyed? © Julian Love/CorbisUsed in accordance with Fair Use Policy ISIS doesn’t have a good track...
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Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous...
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Quote for Today: David Rakoff
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that’s forgiving. We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or...
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Quote for Today: Akira Kurosawa
People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They...
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Quote for Today: Ellen Hopkins
Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. ―Ellen Hopkins, “Manifesto” Image © Quinn Dombrowski with CCLicense
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Quote for Today: Albert Einstein
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. –Albert Einstein Public Domain Image via Pixabay
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Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow...
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Quote for Today: Robert McNair Price
Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Aesop’s Fables
An Eagle was soaring through the air when suddenly it heard the whizz of an Arrow, and felt itself wounded to death. Slowly it fluttered down to the earth, with its life-blood pouring out of it....
View ArticleQuote for Today: John Kramer
The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin… Good men build; great men destroy. They destroy because they try to control...
View ArticleQuote for Today: John Muir
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of...
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