“…no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.”
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via katieschenk) (via claudia)
Reblogged from Claudia Catalina.
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Europe’s democracy deficit from The Economist
“Britain and the Netherlands kicked off the four-day process of electing members for the European Parliament on Thursday June 4th. It is one of the biggest democratic exercises in the world, with over 375m voters in 27 countries. But some voters lack enthusiasm. As the European Union has expanded, turnout has dwindled: from 62% at the first election in 1979 to 45% in 2004. Some blame a general decline in democratic engagement but, aside from countries with compulsory voting such as Belgium, the difference in turnout for national and European parliaments is substantial. And worryingly for Europhiles, turnout is worst in many of the newest members of the club, in eastern Europe.”
Hello,
Life has been keeping me busy.
I like men who cycle to work in suits and dress shoes. And not men who cycle in spandex and think they are hardcore. The speed limit is 20km/hr and the view is beautiful by the canal and lake. Why not enjoy it?
On a similar vein, I was reading the Carine Roitfeld (editor-in-chief of French Vogue) interview with Jonny Johansson. Read it here. It’s very insightful about her perspective, and is centred on French culture, the outlook on fashion and sexuality — subtility above all else, the ability to dress sexily while wearing relatively conservative clothing.
June 22, 2009, 8:47pm
Adorable editorial with Douglas Neitzke for Popeye magazine as photographed by Junji Hata. I love the shout-out to The Economist!
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke (via psychotherapy) (via robot-heart) (via notemily) (via brocatus)
Reblogged from André Brocatus was here....
Inset from a killer wedding invitation (click through to see the whole thing) that’s making the rounds on Twitter and Tumblr, for obvious reasons. The Matt in question is Matt Dorfman who does amazing design at Metalmother. (via gesteves and caterina)
Reblogged from daily discoveries on design.
The government debt of the ten richest countries attending the G20 summits will hit 114% of GDP by 2014, up from 78% in 2007, according to a new IMF study. To measure how much fiscal pain would be required to bring gross debt ratios to a sustainable level, the IMF looked at demographic pressures and assumed that long-term interest rates exceed economic growth rates by a percentage point (the long-term pre-crisis average) and then calculated by how much primary budget balances would have to improve. The economists define this level as 60% or, for Japan, half of today’s figure (ie, 85%). Their results suggest that Ireland and Japan have most to do. Both would need to boost their primary balances by more than 12% of GDP, compared with what is forecast for 2014. Britain would need an improvement of close to 6%. The gap in America is 3.5% and in Germany just under 2%. (The Economist via sabine)
Reblogged from SABINE.TUMBLR.
Ningbo Historic Museum by Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio
katanne:hxg:
Reblogged from Please take off your shoes.
Venn Diagram - Happiness in Business (on budcaddell’s flickr, via mikearauz : zehnuhr: brocatus)
Reblogged from André Brocatus was here....
“As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you’d always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”
— Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie) (via thresca)
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