Admiring “The Bird Cage” by Picasso.
Photo by Edouard Boubat
This is wonderful.
Beautiful.
The desire to tell great stories, the impulse to commune with humanity, is not only the inspiration at the heart of our industry, it is the most reliable key to our future.
The first political party to parody Gangnam Style shall penetrate the foundations of modern governance.
Inspiring in more ways than one.
“No one built this country on their own. This Nation is great because we built it together. This Nation is great because we worked as a team. This Nation is great because we get each other’s backs. And if we hold fast to that truth, in this moment of trial, there is no challenge too great; no mission too hard. As long as we’re joined in common purpose, as long as we maintain our common resolve, our journey moves forward, our future is hopeful, and the state of our Union will always be strong.”
Territory Marking of the Day: To avoid any potential confusion over who owns the resort island of Al Futaisi, Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi’s obscenely rich royal family, spent some of his family’s seemingly limitless wealth to carve his name into its sands.
The massive imprint is two miles across, half a mile wide, and visible from space.
[twbe.]
Mine’s spelled M-I-N-J-A-E. Get to it, please.
Cake sprinkles. Not only delicious, but also beautiful.
Photo Set of the Day: A gallery of food placed under an electron microscope by San Francisco-based food photographer Caren Alpert.
Above: Cake sprinkles magnified x65.
[thd.]
SUPER proud: I just realized that Pyeongchang’s winning bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics means the Dragon Valley Ski Resort will probably host some of the events. My dad was its chief architect at inception. Though the resort has undergone some face lifts, many of the original buildings bear his signature. Must take Baby O to show her what her Grandpa had built from ground up!
One of the most moving dear-photograph submissions I’ve seen:
Dear Photograph,
Her love was my chemo. I beat cancer.
Eric Richter
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection — or compassionate action.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: Baby O found the goodbye sequence so incredibly sad. Her reaction made me cry!
Summer Solstice Celebration of the Day: The Polish city of Poznań marks the arrival of summer with 11,000 floating paper lanterns.
[core77.]
The divorce party.
Rock And Roll RSVP of the Day: Sad: Jack White and his rockstar model wife Karen Elson are calling it quits after six years of marriage. Happy (?): They’re marking the occasion with a “divorce party.”
The two met in 2005 on the set of the music video for The White Stripes’ “Blue Orchid,” and were married shortly thereafter.
[cos.]