Tag Archives: Life

Man Wins $217M Lottery & Uses It to Start Environmental Foundation | My Modern Met

By Jessica Stewart on April 13, 2022 Photo: modesto3/Depositphotos “My dream has never been to acquire boats, castles, or other sports cars, it is to be useful and to give meaning to this money, with maximum positive impact.”   A … Continue reading

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Nature writing should strive for clarity not sentimentality | Aeon Essays

‘For a goshawk, it sometimes seems as if life is simply nature’s way of keeping meat fresh,’ observes photographer and filmmaker James Aldred in Goshawk Summer (2021). Photo by Mike Powles/Getty Too many nature writers descend into poetic self-absorption instead … Continue reading

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빈방 THE EMPTY

Time is what the room has the most. Dust is what I have the most. 방 안에서 가장 많은 건 시간 나에게 가장 많은 건 먼지 Screenings & Awards 2016 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Grand Prix 2016 Seoul International Cartoon … Continue reading

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The Underground Debate | Pete Wands

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BBC Radio 4 – Word of Mouth, 3 Ways to Speak English

Dr Jamila Lyiscott describes to Michael Rosen the 3 ways in which she speaks English.   Dr Jamila Lyiscott describes to Michael Rosen the 3 ways in which she speaks English according to whether she’s at home, at school or … Continue reading

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Ostrich Theory (2020)

Something is coming. Nobody cares. A pre-pandemic harbinger of indifference to troubled times, digitally depopulating and re-orchestrating documentary footage frame-by-frame before lockdowns became reality. Busy scenes shot in early 2017 were meticulously rotoscoped over a three-year period, often involving recreation/reanimation … Continue reading

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Sign me up for this party 😂🥰🔥 | sheilaedrummer

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MAMI WATA – LUCK IS ALIVE

Luck is Alive tells the story of an African surfer and believer in Animism – the belief that inanimate objects and concepts can have a soul. It is his animistic belief in luck that leads him to the ocean and … Continue reading

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r/Damnthatsinteresting – Caixa Forum Museum vertical garden in Madrid with around 15,000 plant species

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Allusionist 152. Asperger — The Allusionist

Hans Asperger would have been merely “a footnote in the history of autism”, so why did he get to be the eponym in Asperger’s syndrome? Because along with the usual problems medical eponyms pose, and his work not really earning him … Continue reading

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