Thursday, August 9
You Are What You Hear: What Your Favorite Music Says About You
npr:
‘The Guardian’ has launched “Six Songs of Me,” a project to map as many personal playlists as possible.
My response to all 6 questions is “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell.
(via nprmusic)
Sunday, June 24
Q&A: Jonathan Safran Foer
- What makes you unhappy?
- Physical pain.
- What is your guiltiest pleasure?
- Watching YouTube videos of newscaster bloopers.
- What or who is the love of your life?
- Life, itself.
- What is the worst job you've done?
- Morgue assistant.
- What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
- It's better to say things aloud.
Saturday, June 16
![life:
“By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited — as all good photographers like to be — in the right place at the right time. Go into it [photography] as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.”
— Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself
Truth.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5md0updxo1qbz9meo1_400.jpg)
life:
“By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited — as all good photographers like to be — in the right place at the right time. Go into it [photography] as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.”
— Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself
Truth.
(via timelightbox)
Wednesday, June 6
![theatlantic:
The 10 Things Economics Can Tell Us About Happiness
1) Generally speaking, richer countries are happier countries (see above). But since many of these rich countries share other traits — they’re mostly democracies with strong property rights traditions, for example — some studies suggest that it’s our institutions that are making us happy, not just the wealth. More on that in a second.
2) Generally speaking, richer people are happier people. But young people and the elderly appear less influenced by having more money.
3) But money has diminishing returns — like just about everything else. Satisfaction rises with income until about $75,000 (or perhaps as high as $120,000). After that, researchers have had trouble proving that more money makes that much of a difference. Other factors — like marriage quality and health — become more relatively important than money.
Read the rest. [Image: new economics foundation]
Reading The Geography of Bliss again + Wanderlusting + Thinking about happiness.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4y0f8zruQ1qcokc4o1_400.png)
The 10 Things Economics Can Tell Us About Happiness
1) Generally speaking, richer countries are happier countries (see above). But since many of these rich countries share other traits — they’re mostly democracies with strong property rights traditions, for example — some studies suggest that it’s our institutions that are making us happy, not just the wealth. More on that in a second.
2) Generally speaking, richer people are happier people. But young people and the elderly appear less influenced by having more money.
3) But money has diminishing returns — like just about everything else. Satisfaction rises with income until about $75,000 (or perhaps as high as $120,000). After that, researchers have had trouble proving that more money makes that much of a difference. Other factors — like marriage quality and health — become more relatively important than money.
Read the rest. [Image: new economics foundation]
Reading The Geography of Bliss again + Wanderlusting + Thinking about happiness.
Saturday, June 2
Petticoat, 1956. Photo by Herbert Dombrowski.
Last night, in a nutshell.
(Source: firsttimeuser)
Friday, June 1
life:
Dance, dance, fight the urge to sleep, and dance some more — In 1958, LIFE documented the prom that (almost) didn’t end.
Not originally published in LIFE. Mariemont High School’s 1958 prom.
See more here.
Prom as a twenty-something is just going to be a whole lot of silly. I’m buying a one time use camera. It’s necessary.
Thursday, May 31
life:
When you went to your high school prom did you think to yourself, “I wish this night could last forever…” Well, in 1958 it almost did.
“Traditionally,” LIFE noted in its June 9, 1958, issue, “senior proms are the high school students’ big night to howl. To keep them happy and off the roads and ultimately wear them out, many high schools now sponsor all-night dances. The only trouble is that each generation seems to take longer to wear out.”
Students at Mariemont High School near Cincinnati came close to the ultimate this year when they put on a “prom” that lasted almost 32 hours. It started with a progressive dinner (spaghetti to strawberry cake), followed by a formal but highly energetic dance. Then the students boarded a river boat for a cruise and dancing to a jazz combo. Dawn found them somewhat subdued and back at the school for breakfast. Sent home for a short rest period, they emerged refreshed and descended on an amusement park. By nightfall half the students had discovered they were mortal and had gone home to bed. The rest whipped up another dance. “It keeps getting better and better,” one said, “as I get more and more numb.”
Read more about this night here on LIFE.com.
Prom on Park is going to be the silliest. I can’t wait.
Also, if you haven’t checked out Aliee and Bettina’s (sort of) Grown Up Sleepover website, you should probably do that. Just saying.
Monday, May 21
“I don’t make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.” —Fred Astaire
Truth.
(Source: salesonfilm, via kirinmccrory)
Thursday, April 19
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.”F. Scott Fitzgerald (via je-nesais-quoi)
This manifesto for visual culture from Rencontres d’Arles is a fine addition to these 5 manifestos for the creative life.
A species of editors.
(via theatlantic)
