10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #124

Enjoy funky drum n’bass, tiny quaint junkyard islands, a spinach curry, the art of Zdzisław Beksiński and more, it’s edition #124 of interesting things by #ContentCatnip

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To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

Nhat Hanh

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G-Funk Instrumental Mix

Some nice jazzy and mellow drum and bass here

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Le Rocher by Simon Laveuve

How I love a good miniature sculpture! Simon Laveuve’s contain chaotic and ramshackle worlds of flotsam and jetsam that work together in perfect harmony.

In his piece called “Le Rocher,” which translates to “The Rock,” Laveuve explores notions of time.

“The rock is a survivor. Cataclysm, tsunami, storm. He was there. He saw everything, heard everything. When land and sea give birth to a new world, the rock, against wind and tide, will be there. It’s at the end that everything begins (again).”

Via Simon Laveuve

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“Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.”

~ Oscar Wilde

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Anton Chekhov’s stories are intricately bound up in memory

Chekhov’s stories incorporate extremely precise, well-observed details that come from everyday life — the way a farm smells of hay, warm manure, and steaming milk in June; that moment of transformation when a singer goes to the top of her range and sounds more birdlike than human; the violet glow of the sea at sunset in the Crimea. These details are not bits of journalistic color, nor are they mere word-count padding (Chekhov got his start by cranking out comic stories and gags for newspapers that paid by the word). These details were elements of the world that bound his characters in time and place and from which they could not escape.

It was memory itself, with its power to endow a life, no matter how humble, with meaning and, on occasion, states of pure bliss. In his plays and short stories, memory becomes more than a noun. It is a verb, an action fleeting and ephemeral, that makes sense of the otherwise random and senseless lives people lead.

Via MIT Press Reader

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Types of bird beaks and corresponding dietary requirements

Via the always fascinating Cool Guides on Reddit

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Shigeru Umebayashi: Yumeji’s theme (In The Mood For Love) Soundtrack

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Non-smoking Lady Bug shares the immortal and timeless ‘Wild Geese’ by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Wild Geese by
Mary Oliver

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Spinach and lentil curry

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AA78 by Zdzislaw Beksinski (1978)

Zdzisław Beksiński, the Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor with a reputation for dystopian surrealism and nightmarish artworks. Beksiński’s life was marked by personal tragedies like the death of his wife and son, as well as his own tragic end. However throughout his life, Beksiński himself resisted such interpretations, preferring to let his art speak for itself and was remembered as a mild-mannered and content person. He was born in Nazi-occupied Poland, the horrors of the era left an indelible mark on his work. This often features emaciated figures and the psychological shadows of war. This artwork below is less menacing and a bit more enchanting which is why I like it.

Via Open Culture

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Ask Reddit: What’s something everyone should know?

• You are under no obligation to engage with anyone you don’t want to converse with. People selling a mobile phone contract or from gas companies, toxic people you work with, trolls on the internet. Ignoring them is not only an option it is often the best course of action!
• How and when to apologise
• You are accountable for the consequences of your decisions and actions
• That there is a 24 hour livestream right now of dog’s playing soccer: https://www.youtube.com/live/98uaFe5btso?si=e7MbC6bF231IFVZx

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Haunting pan flute song

Native American style drone flutes are dual chambered flutes, playing a drone through the left, and melodic playing on the right chamber. They produces a deep bass tone creating a peculiar immersive sound experience

[📹 Dana Ross, Falcon Flutes]pic.twitter.com/oULHsRFCU1

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 26, 2023

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