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moving
i’ve re-named this tumblr - podkayne of mars
i’ve been using it more as a colander of sorts, to collect things that interest me
i’ll be writing, for reals, at havespacesuit-willtravel.tumblr.com
see you there?
I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.
Alfred Guillou (1844-1926), Adieu, 1892, Oil on canvas, 245 x 170 cm, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
– Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (via liquidnight)
Documentary: The Human Face
The Human Face is a 4 part BBC series that examines the science behind facial beauty, expression, and fame in an entertaining fashion. John Cleese, actor, comedian, visiting professor, and best-selling author on psychology, sets out on an odyssey to discover the mysteries of identity, perception, creativity and sexuality hidden behind the mask of life itself. This four-part series combines art, technology and deeply moving human interest stories to uncover the secrets of the human face.
Here’s Looking at You. The series opens with an epic journey to uncover the secrets of the human face. In a world of six billion other faces, your face is unique. It reveals your personality, your genetic and cultural identity and it can be read like a book. Family resemblances, facial recognition and the purpose of the face and its features are all part of a story that begins in the oceans five hundred million years ago.
Fame and Infamy. Famous faces are everywhere. They stare out at us from billboards, magazines, and movie screens, beaming out messages.These faces sell sex, politics, glamor and power. Diana, Jackie O, Marilyn Monroe, their faces are sometimes more familiar to us than those of our nearest and dearest.
Survival of the Prettiest. What is beauty? Is it just a matter of personal taste? Apparently not; we discover that the same things attract lovers all round the world. A pretty face is a fertile face and ugliness suggests poor health. Big eyes, smooth skin and symmetrical features will win you fans everywhere.
Secrets and Lies. Every face contains a million secrets. And whether we like it or not, the face reveals our feelings and what’s really going on deep down inside. Secrets and Lies is about how the face communicates without saying a word; it’s about expressions, disguise and the mysterious art of face-reading.
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Jay Fleck. Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows..
When Intense Belief Kills
The Atlantic discusses a deadly culture-bound syndrome. When you’re dreaming, your body becomes paralyzed, so that you don’t act out your dreams in sleep. There are two ways this mechanism could fail: either you could not be paralyzed in sleep, in which case you might sleepwalk or worse. Alternatively, you could wake up while paralyzed, and this feeling, known as sleep paralysis, is usually accompanied by feelings of intense dread and the belief that a malevolent entity is in the room, if not actually on top of you. Sleep paralysis is known in all cultures, and different non-scientific beliefs attach to it in. The Hmong call it tsog tsuam, and have a system of beliefs surrounding it.
The article discusses an epidemic among ethnically Hmong who had immigrated to the US: in the early 1980s, 117 men, most of them healthy and relatively young, died in their sleep of unknown causes. The Hmong believe that, if you don’t worship the right spirits, evil spirits can cause tsog tsuam. The article argues that intense belief in this phenomenon could have triggered an “obscure genetic cardiac arrhythmia that is prevalent in southeast Asia.” Their belief in the spirit world, in a sense, scared them to death.