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wannafuq:

where we headed. 40 some odd days

Think this is beautiful.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.

—Jim Jarmusch

trendytraveler: The eye-catching swimming pool in Mumbai, India, has been built to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of global warming. It was constructed by attaching a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline to the floor of the pool. The idea was conceived by advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, who were commissioned by banking giant HSBC to promote its £50million project tackling climate change. The Ogilvy team came up with an innovative way to show the adverse impact of global climate change. They glued an aerial view of a city to the base of a swimming pool.When the pool was filled with water, it gave a shocking effect akin to a city submerged in water. The visual of a sunken city shocked swimmers and onlookers, driving home the impact of global warming, and how it could destroy our world someday.

trendytraveler:

The eye-catching swimming pool in Mumbai, India, has been built to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of global warming.

It was constructed by attaching a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline to the floor of the pool.

The idea was conceived by advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, who were commissioned by banking giant HSBC to promote its £50million project tackling climate change.

The Ogilvy team came up with an innovative way to show the adverse impact of global climate change. They glued an aerial view of a city to the base of a swimming pool.
When the pool was filled with water, it gave a shocking effect akin to a city submerged in water. The visual of a sunken city shocked swimmers and onlookers, driving home the impact of global warming, and how it could destroy our world someday.

From boredom you periodically escape into diversion; the search for novelty without peril. Diversion is a temporary release from routine and character that never threatens to unravel them because it never occupies their home ground of everyday vision, community, and work. It is a fantasy that hovers around prosaic reality rather than penetrating it. Like boredom, it seems to be a partial way out from boredom that saves you from the unlimited vulnerability to hurt by others and to loss of identity that the breakdown of habit and character might otherwise bring. The failed life is the life that alternates between the stagnation of routinized conduct and vision and the restless craving for momentary release. The altercation denies you the means to transform your fear, and in both ways to enlarge your freedom to be. This denial becomes apparent in the moment of boredom. This fake rescue is the moment of diversion.

—Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s “Passion”