Lara T

My adventures on and off the interwebz. Check out where they take me.

I have a motto: it’s never too late to give up. It’s never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

Data visualization magician Hans Rosling, who previously delighted us with such gems as a history of 200 countries over 200 years in 4 minutes and a data-driven meditation on how the washing machine sparked the reading revolution, adds an important voice in the advice choir on how to find your purpose and do what you love.

( The Morning News)

(Source: , via explore-blog)

Excited to meet those behind this at the next Creative Morning Meetup.

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Excited to demo this tonight!

jeffdtaylor:

Biorythm: Music and Body is up at Eyebeam through August 6, 2011.

(Video: Kaffe Matthew’s Sonic Bed, July 2011)

yvynyl:

Sin Fang - Because Of The Blood 

Great new single from the solo project of otherwise Seabear, Icelander Sindri Már Sigfusson. If you’re a fan of the pop music of the northern Atlantic, you’re going to eat this up and get caught it its giant, dreamy fishing net of melody.

 Summer Echoes is out on April 3rd on Morr MusicDirected by his brother, Máni M. Sigfússon. Follow up on the tumblrsphere.

 

(via doree)


Melissa Auf der Maur’s favourite room

Melissa Auf der Maur’s favourite room

The revolutions of the future will appear in forms we don’t even recognise—in a language we can’t read. We will be looking out for twists on the old themes but not noticing that there are whole new conversations taking place.

—Brian Eno, ‘What Happens Next’

(Source: prospectmagazine.co.uk)

But there were always things we felt we had to work out first in our own lives, together and separately, and time simply passed without bringing any resolution, or a clearer sense of how we might go about being something more than what we were already struggling to be.

— Nicole Krauss, Great House

Love Cry by Four Tet,  From: There’s Love in You

“Trying to make a movie which truly conveys the raw thrill and expressive power of art is very difficult. So I haven’t bothered…Instead this is a simple everyday tale of life, longing and mindless vandalism.”

- Banksy