Ilunado - ¿Qué Les Estaba Diciendo...?

Cómo investigar cómo escapamos de la realidad.

For no other reason than its sublime beauty: “Daydream” by cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima. 

It's all on TV. So handling the cold metal, feeling it next to his skin that first time: it was easy. And when things come to you easily, when things click effortlessly into place, it is so tempting to use the four-letter F-word. Fate.

Zadie Smith 'White Teeth'

Things that crumble!

Pack Pack

Hidden Beached Whale Revealed in 17th-Century Dutch Painting

When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they found a surprise: an image of a beached whale that had been hidden for at least 150 years.

Oh, You never expect a whale!

Piña + Maga

Ethical thought consists of the systematic examination of the relations of human beings to each other, the conceptions, interests and ideals from which human ways of treating one another spring, and the systems of value on which such ends of life are based. These beliefs about how life should be lived, what men and women should be and do, are objects of moral enquiry; and when applied to groups and nations, and, indeed, mankind as a whole, are called political philosophy, which is but ethics applied to society.

Isaiah Berlin The Pursuit of the Ideal

Para leer en este 2014

In honor of #readwomen2014 – an effort to equalize the gender imbalance in our collective reading habits – here are 14 fantastic, timeless reads by women:

Joan Didion on self-respect

Susan Sontag on photography as aesthetic consumerism and a form of modern violence

Virginia Woolf on the creative benefits of keeping a diary

Annie Dillard on presence over productivity

Helen Keller on optimism

Alexandra Horowitz on the blinders of attention

Anaïs Nin on why emotional excess is essential to creativity

Hannah Arendt on how bureaucracy fuels violence

Jennifer Finney Boylan on what it’s like to be a transgender parent

Anissa Ramirez on saving science education

Jeanette Winterson on adoption and how we use storytelling to save ourselves

Dani Shapiro on the pleasures and perils of the creative life

Virginia Woolf on how to read a book

Susan Sontag on literature and freedom

Artwork above by Joanna Walsh

Lego-mundo

The United Nations Headquarters is now a LEGO set, part of the LEGO Architecture series that also includes the White House, the Empire State Building, and Seattle’s Space Needle. 

Pair with The Cult of LEGO. 

(↬ FastCompany)