would’ve loved to see more reactions from people watching below, but this is still a great video/idea
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” - Marilyn Monroe
Karl by Karl
on work: “if somebody in this business thinks he’s the victim of the system…then he should be in another job. if the pressure is too big, do something else.”
on muses: “I hate that word…the word ‘muse’ is very limited…in fashion you have to dress everybody so you need all kinds of muses.”
“fashion freaks I’m not too crazy for.”
“I never talk about ‘the good old days’ because I’m not sure if they were ‘good’ just old.”
on chicness: “there are peasants in the country who are beyond chic in their poor rags, and there are rich women who are chic in an expensive dress.”
“a white shirt, jeans, and a jacket…three basic things, that’s what everyone needs. I’m not going to say a cocktail dress, there aren’t so many cocktails alive anymore.”
“everyday should be perfect it’s up to you to work on it and to make the day perfect…it’s a question of will and discipline.”
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As a young latina, this was expressed to me numerous times after displaying an ‘extensive’ vocabulary or my use of grammatically correct english. It also usually went hand in hand with “you’re not like the rest of them.” I felt angry, sad, despondent. I would go talk to my mom afterwards in my frustration and luckily she would tell me how wrong what they said was and that being intelligent was NOT exclusively ‘white’, supported with many examples of educated people of color. (via microaggressions)
the fact that we use race, which is socially constructed, to categorize not only physical appearance but language as well is detrimental to our understanding of equality in the u.s.
“I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?”
the full text —> http://dinca.org/sans-soleilsunless-by-chris-marker-text/5195.htm
(Source: asnowingcircle)
are you past oriented? or are you future oriented?
this is what Philip Zimbardo addresses in this video with an accompanied animation
here, we begin to realize what time really means and how it affects us. we begin life a certain way but can easily change our perspective of time depending on our cultural surroundings.
he uses the term “hedonistic” a lot in this lecture, but it’s true that it sums up our values as human beings. pleasure > time-consuming work/everything else that we consider boring. technology and it’s power over almost everything we do affects our time and essentially, our future.
a perception of the world seen by a New Yorker
viewing point: 9th ave
nothing past the hudson river really matters
illustrated by Saul Steinberg
