Paul Banks & The Carousels - “Lonesome Ones”

"Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake."

John Cleese

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Photo from “Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense” (1963)
Taken in Seattle, WA (L-R: Jesse Glover, Bruce Lee, James DeMile)

“If I could have hit this guy I would have killed him. Boy, I tell you I tried. I couldn’t hit him, Jesse couldn’t hit him, Ed couldn’t hit him. None of us could hit him — but we all could have killed him.” — James DeMile

It's Bigger Than "Bath Salts" and "Zombie Apocalypses" →

But it is still easier to demand the death penalty for “bath salt” possession than it is to talk about a real need for services. After all, wanting to detect and address early warning signs of potentially destructive behavior makes you a “bleeding heart” liberal. Cracking jokes about bleeding hearts and eaten flesh while doing nothing just makes you normal.

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."

 Frederick Buechner

"Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not a luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival."

Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet

Fred Martins - “Domingo e Feriado”
2004 MUNDO POP

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“Searching the Seas with the Tenkei (天瓊を以て滄海を探るの図 Tenkei o motte sōkai o saguru no zu)”
Painting by Kobayashi Eitaku, 1880-90 (MFA, Boston).
Izanagi to the right, Izanami to the left.

John Lasseter On the Future Of Animation

“No one goes to Milt Kahl — or Marc Davis or Ollie Johnston or Frank Thomas — ‘Wow’ what pencil did you use?”

“Art challenges technology and technology inspires the art.”

"Best of all is to win. But if you can’t win, fight for a noble cause because then you will be remembered."

Hypereides, “Against Diondas” (Archimedes Palimpsest)

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Stephen Colbert 2011 Commencement Speech at Northwestern University

“In my experience, you will truly serve only what you love, because service is love made visible. If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself. So no winning. Instead, try to love others and serve others, and hopefully find those who will love and serve you in return.”

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - AMERICANA (2012)

Track Listing
01 00:00 “Oh Susannah”
02 05:02 “Clementine”
03 10:44 “Tom Dula”
04 18:56 “Gallows Pole”
05 23:12 “Get a Job”
06 26:13 “Travel On”
07 32:59 “High Flyin’ Bird”
08 38:29 “Jesus’ Chariot (She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain)”
09 44:09 “This Land Is Your Land”
10 49:35 “Wayfarin’ Stranger”
11 52:44 “God Save the Queen”

Mr Flores vs Mr Tuan
Wing Chun Hanoi, Vietnam

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“Fall of France”

Some say it was taken in Toulon as the French soldiers leave for Africa. Some say it was taken as Nazi tanks rolled into Paris. Others claim it was taken in Marseilles as historic French battle flags were taken aboard ships for protection against the conquering Nazis. No matter what incident prompted him to cry, the French civilian cries across decades from his faded photograph. He cries not only for his generation, but also for his century. The photo, one of the most heart-rending pictures of the Second World War, was possibly taken by George Mejat for Fox Movietone News/AP.

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“Wait For Me, Daddy”

It’s October 1, 1940 and Province photographer Claud Detloff is standing on Columbia Street at 8th Street in New Westminster, his press camera up to his eye, preparing to take a shot. He’s focusing on a line of hundreds of men of the B.C. Regiment marching down 8th to a waiting train. Soldiers of the Duke of Connaught’s Own Rifles are marching past. Suddenly, in the view-finder, Detloff sees a little white-haired boy tugging away from his mother’s grasp and rushing up to his father in the marching line.