Wow And Ow

Several objects by late Danish designer Jacob Jensen are on view now in the exhibition Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye.

[Jakob Jensen. Beolit 400 Portable Radio. 1971. Mfr.: Bang & Olufsen, Struer, Denmark. The Museum of Modern Art, New York]

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.

Charlotte Joko Beck (via meditationsinwonderland)

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eXB1Yj05Fw)

Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness

Andrew Solomon on Robin Williams:

“He played an alien so well because he was an alien in his own mind, permanently auditioning to be one of us. Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.”

Above: Robin Williams, September 14, 1978. Photograph by Jim Britt/Getty

“Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time” - Sappho          

Requested by anonymous.  

Leonard Nimoy - Zachary Quinto Lectures 2011 10 13