Errando

When he was thirty-two Murakami sold his jazz club and with his wife moved to Narashino, a rural town fifteen miles outside of Tokyo. There he set about reordering his life. He began waking up around the time he’d formerly gone to bed and went to sleep when the sun set. He gave up alcohol and meat, cut down on rice, and “decided that from then on we’d try to see only the people we wanted to see, and, as much as possible, get by without seeing those we didn’t.”

Budget cuts are endangering NYPL. Improv Everywhere are busting some ghosts and hoping to bust the cuts also. Info here.

(via Book Bench)

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Tulips, clouds and a night view of the Chaudiéres Bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau.

With so much new-found pride in their city, it was easy to imagine that Valencians would never again commit the architectural crimes of the past, that the knee-jerk cementing of the coastline and construction of characterless apartment blocks was a thing of painful memory. We were wrong. If you are in the Valencia area this year, be sure to visit the old fishermen's quarter, El Cabanyal. This working-class jewel of art-nouveau style – officially a "protected historical zone" – may not exist in its present form for much longer.

Guardian.co.uk

An afternoon at Taylor Creek Trail in Zion National Park

A remarkable thing about maps is people's resistance to the most basic fact of mapmaking - they can never be completely objective, accurate images of our world. [...] Each society tends to get the world map they deserve, one which manages to summarise and define a particular society's hopes and fears, prejudices and beliefs.

BBC News

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"To repeat: bullshit. Maybe you don’t like to cook, maybe you’re too lazy to cook, maybe you’d rather watch television or garden, I don’t know and I don’t care, but don’t tell me you’re too busy to cook. We all have the same hours every day, and we all choose how to use them."

Michael Ruhlman (on what we choose to do with our time. Read the whole rant at the Huffington Post)

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Moonshot: Dean & Britta covering Buffy Sainte-Marie (listen to the original version here)

Fast Company helps you maximize your consumption of Apple products.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven can wait

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He stated his dislike of nihilism and the “high, high pitch” of parody and satire that are prevalent aspects of Tarantino’s work, humorously adding that he, of course, sells and options film rights to his books not to maintain their integrity but because his high-risk lifestyle entails taxes and alimony payments.

Los Angeles Times

Rejected cover for Fortune 500 by Chris Ware.

(via Design Observer)

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But imagine if, instead of paying taxes in the form of money, you could give the government a piece of art. That's the arrangement in Mexico, where the government has been allowing artists to offer pieces of art instead of paying income tax since 1957.

Public Radio International (via Getty Museum)

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"I’ve always been torn between my appetite for people, the vanity and the agitation, and the desire to make myself the equal of these seas of forgetfulness, these unlimited silences that are like the enchantment of death."

Albert Camus (part of his American Journals)

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There is something haunting about Kirchner’s colors. Expressionism + fauvism? Whatever is, one can only stare, smile, and then wait for a weekend dressed in orange, purple, and pink.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), Self-Portrait with Model, 1910

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