The following June, Rothko and his family again traveled to Europe. While on the SS Independence he disclosed to John Fischer, publisher of Harper’s, that his true intention for the Seagram murals was to paint “something that will ruin the appetite of every son-of-a-bitch who ever eats in that room. If the restaurant would refuse to put up my murals, that would be the ultimate compliment. But they won’t. People can stand anything these days.

Mark Rothko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ain’t That A Shame-Fats Domino-original song-1955 (via AK47bandit)

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Yang has never been more sensitive to the rhythm of urban life—at one point setting a scene’s pace by using a traffic light as his metronome. The movie’s tone is as level as its frames are carefully composed. Yang juggles subplots with aplomb and refuses to crowd his characters, typically positioning his actors in tactful middle-shot.

It’s All Relative - Page 1 - Movies - New York - Village Voice

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The Investigations deals largely with the difficulties of language and meaning. Wittgenstein viewed the tools of language as being fundamentally simple,[4] and he believed that philosophers had obscured this simplicity by misusing language and by the asking of meaningless questions. Wittgenstein attempted in Investigations to make things clear, and “shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.”[5]

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Maieutics (pronounced /meɪˈjuːtɪks/) is a procedure of pedagogy. It is based on the idea that the truth is latent in the mind of every human being due to his innate reason but has to be “given birth” by answering questions (or problems) intelligently proposed. The word is derived from the Greek “μαιευτικός”, pertaining to midwifery.

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Poem: The Great Sickness of W. Wilson in 1919

We live in a world where

Even kings get sick,

They lie, deceive, and trick,

But on a certain day, of a certain week,

They lie helpless, drawn, down and meek.

Their power to their side,

Their mantle weak,

What they see is their arms and skin and speak.

What they seek is a dream of the downward deep.

In the hallway, 

She watches silent, weeps.

(inspired by this: The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 3)


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On lie wizards (via wildricegrains)

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Misdirection (magic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (link)

The study of close-up magic is a good introduction to misdirection. Misdirection takes advantage of the limits of the human mind in order to give the wrong picture and memory. The mind can concentrate on only one thing at a time. The magician uses this to manipulate the “victim’s” idea of how the world is supposed to be. Misdirection in magic may be as simple as a magician rolling up his sleeves and saying “nothing up my sleeve” and then producing an object that could never have been “up his sleeve”. The audience instinctively scrutinizes the magician’s arms, but ignores the actual location where the object-to-be-magically-produced is hidden. Attention can be controlled in various ways. A magician will first grab attention with a coin, or another small and shiny object A shiny object captures more attention and seems less likely to disappear or to be manipulated. Then attention is directed away from the object (hence, “misdirection”) through a combination of comedy, sleight of hand or an unimportant object of focus, thus providing just enough time for the magician to do whatever he or she wishes to do with the original object.

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