“There are two extraordinarily beautiful things happening in this iPhone video by Patrick Colpron. The first is a spectacular six-sail kite designed and flown by Steve Polansky, and second is a heart-achingly wonderful song called Lighthouse by Patrick Watson. What a perfect moment in time, sort of an impromptu video poem.”

via: Colossal

via Holi on Vimeo.

The Washington Monthly – The Magazine – Heaven Can Wait.

— By Christopher Hitchens, as told to Art Levine

We Were Wanderers On A Prehistoric Earth from James W Griffiths on Vimeo.

Not long ago in the newspaper, I came across an archival photograph of Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell with a dozen of their young staff at Morgans, the Ur-boutique hotel, in 1985. It was an epiphany. Schrager’s dress shirt had no collar and some of the hair on his male employees was a bit unfashionably fluffy, but no one in the picture looks obviously, laughably dated by today’s standards. If you passed someone who looked like any of them, you wouldn’t think twice. Yet if, in 1990 or 1980 or 1970, you’d examined a comparable picture from 27 years earlier—from 1963 and 1953 and 1943, respectively—it would be a glimpse back into an unmistakably different world. A man or woman on the street in any year in the 20th century groomed and dressed in the manner of someone from 27 years earlier would look like a time traveler, an actor in costume, a freak. And until recently it didn’t take even that long for datedness to kick in: by the late 1980s, for instance, less than a decade after the previous decade had ended, the 1970s already looked ridiculous.

From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? | Style | Vanity Fair.

Olde samples via Jane Austen

“It is more than I engage for, I assure you.”__________________“Huh-uh.”

“Dare I say my eye might have misjudged the possibility?”________“Really?”

“I see no occasion for that.”_____________________________“Whaaa?”

“That is not an unnatural surmise.”________________________“Maybe.”

“Upon my honour I have not the smallest of objections.”__________“Oh. Okay.”

— Why i dont read the classics