Life in Black and White

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and strong.
Someday in your life you will have been all of these.
-  George Washington Carver

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn,
good and ill together.
- William Shakespeare…

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The Life of Things

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While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
- William Wordsworth,
Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

 

 

 

 

Portraits often seem pregnant with speech, or as if their subjects have just finished saying something,

or will soon speak the thoughts that inform their faces, the thoughts we’re invited to read.

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100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!)

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In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the "100 websites you should know and use." Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser.

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The Secret Lives of Unfinished Books

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What does it mean not to finish a book? To lose interest, steam, momentum? When distraction leads to forgotten plots, characters, and themes who suffers, the reader or the book left unread?

My apartment is teeming with unfinished books. They cover my desk, coffee table, and nightstand. They sit two rows deep on my bookshelves. There they remain, neglected, misunderstood, unappreciated, still with the last read page firmly marked with a piece of paper, a subscription card, or a proper bookmark: a reminder of my stagnation, my failure to engage.

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Gift of Grandparents

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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. 
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.  
- Alex Haley

 

 

There is no grandfather who does not adore his grandchild.
- Victor Hugo

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
- Welsh Proverb

A grandparent is a best friend, teacher, cheerleader, and counselor.

Something magical happens when parents turns into grandparents.

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Eloquence of the Eye

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The soul has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.
- Charlotte Bronte

The eyes have one language everywhere.
- Proverb

 

The eye is the jewel of the body.
- Henry David Thoreau

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.
 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian Poet

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me;

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Ang Lee: A Never-Ending Dream

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Following Ang Lee's second Best Directing win at the Academy Awards last night, this beautiful essay resurfaced. Here is my translation of Ang Lee's words, written in 2006 (post-Oscar win). Please credit the translation to Irene Shih (and to this blog), thank you!

In 1978, as I applied to study film at the University of Illinois, my father vehemently objected.

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