(Source: thepursuitaesthetic)
(Source: beyonce)
Jay-Z’s tribute to MCA at ‘09 All Points West festival, when he replaced the Beastie Boys as the headliner due to Adam Yauch’s cancer diagnosis. (h/t @marlowNYC)
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thinking about fearlessness after pamela and franny have left.
what is failure in the face of inspiration? conviction?
(via turquoisetemptation)
"Good sentences, the ebullient critic and novelist Wilfrid Sheed wrote in 1990, are sent into the air like a series of jazz licks. “You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile."
from NYTimes’ ‘The Lives They Lived’, a year-end remembrance section dedicated not to “the iconic deaths” but to “those lives with an untold tale” edited by Ira Glass and the This American Life team.
thinking about storytelling and the power of narrative…
“There’s a growing suspicion that [literature]’s worth has been over inflated, that surfing the web is a suitable and even superior substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. From this larger reconfiguration of values, many others necessarily follow — speed trumps reflectiveness, information unseats analysis, the rewards of convenience win over those of difficulty. Though no one would claim to value rancor, this reordering of ideals has come at a cost to empathy and compassion, which are more sophisticated mental processes, and therefore, as neuroscientists explain it, inherently slow.”
- Nicole Krauss
The importance of SLOW for literature, our minds, our souls, and social change.
