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Beautiful Melancholy
A blog dedicated to finding beauty out of sadness and the mundane.
Retired astronaut Chris Hatfield talks about differentiating danger from fear in this inspiring and beautiful TED talk…
The creator of this beautiful video, entitled First Kiss, asked 20 strangers to kiss each other. It really hits the viewer with a tidal wave of emotion…
Marina Abramovic meets Ulay
“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”
So beautiful…
(via salamicorpse)
Marina Abramović and Ulay
Breathing In / Breathing Out, 1977
This performance consisted of the two artists seated in front of each other, connected at the mouth. They took in each other’s breaths until all of their available oxygen had been used up. The performance lasted only 17 minutes, resulting in both artists collapsing unconscious to the floor, having filled their lungs with carbon dioxide. This personal piece explored the idea of an individual’s ability to absorb the life of another person, exchanging and destroying it. (Wikipedia)
Marina Abramović is such an amazing performance artist, her body of work is so beautiful…
(via beauty-and-terror-blog)
This flow chart explains the crazy, incestuous, awesome Stephanides family in Jeffrey Eugenides book ‘Middlesex’
-Gillian James
Such an amazing novel, definitely one of my all-time favorite work of fiction…
Random Thought No.36 by Wesley Mayer
My heart was disfigured, burned by another wounded soul, both of us unable to love, our problems and sadness the only connection we shared.
That Final Voyage of The Last Ship of Fools by Wesley Mayer
Sanity is a hard thing to keep when the world seems like a giant ship of fools, ready to run into that iceberg that spells that final doom, to transmit that last S.O.S., the dot and dashes that no ears will ever hear, lifeboats set adrift empty and silent, ghosts the only survivors, floating towards that last sunset, like every cliché film ending, but there are no credits or epilogues, for this is the end, the last chapter, that final goodbye.
A short film by Courtney Taylor-Taylor of The Dandy Warhols, entitled The End Of The Old As We Knew It, about the end of the world.
Dr. Suess’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go as told by the attendees of Burning Man 2011, in love with this…