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Jane Bown. From her book Cats.

#cats #Jane Bown

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#nature #horse #beach

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Taipei Story ‘青梅竹馬’ (1985) Directed by Edward Yang

#movie #Taipei Story #Edward Yang #want to watch

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Tbilisi, Georgia - Autumn 2023

#Tbilisi #Georgia

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ode to blue

#sea #i can watch the waves forever

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The other night I went to see William Basinski perform his Disintegration Loops live.

Now I could talk about the calm of the music, Basinski’s remarks before and after the show or how the visuals reminded me of The Cure’s Disintegration album (not that much, when I looked it up later). However, the main story here was my hearing damage being present throughout the performance. So unfortunately, this post will be less jocular than the regular review thing.

In general, ambient soundscapes don’t repel the static noise I hear at default (or silence). Despite knowing this, I went to experiment as I had ear plugs with me. It didn’t matter though, the static was never gone. The normal distribution was about 50/50, leaning to the static’s favour. At times, it even shifted to 80% of what I heard. This in turn made me rather miserable.

I didn’t write this, because I want pity or care. I live in a country with a decent healthcare system. In a month or so I can go to a specialist and hopefully find more ways to deal with it. For now, I’ll keep experimenting with places where I do and don’t hear it. And on a normal day, I just try to distract myself as much as possible to keep the static away. I just wanted to share what has been taking up my mental space these last weeks.

#personal #tinnitus #no point in tagging this live music diary

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Olivia Petronella Palermo Double Magazine n°47 ph. Johnny Dufort

#fashion photography #Olivia Petronella Palermo #Johnny Dufort

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Gardening in the Arctic.

#artic lifestyle #frostpunk vibes

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#nature #water lillies #Poza de la Becerra #George Grall

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"in brazil, a new year tradition to keep the sea goddess happy: the one-night hedonistic release is one of the world’s largest new year’s celebrations, but it began as something far more spiritual. in the 1950s, followers of umbanda, an african brazilian religion, began congregating on copacabana on new year’s eve to make offerings to their goddess of the sea, Iemanjá, and ask for good fortune in the year ahead."

#educational #brazil #the sea has its demands

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The Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire documentary

The Delian Mode (Kara Blake, 2009) is a a short experimental documentary revolving around the life and work of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, best known for her groundbreaking sound treatment of the Doctor Who theme music. A collage of sound and image created in the spirit of Derbyshire’s unique approach to audio creation and manipulation, this film illuminates such soundscapes onscreen while paying tribute to a woman whose work has influenced electronic musicians for decades. 

  http://thedelianmode.com

#Delia Derbyshire #delian mode #be amazed

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It’s easy to lose sight of some of life’s simple pleasures when you’re mired in the politics of a land you’re forbidden to enter. But every now and again we deserve to be reminded of just how beautifully the sea sparkles in the Gaza Strip, or just how high the rainbows over the West Bank’s grassy hills can go, or just how easy it is to visualize the earthy way of life in villages wiped away in 1948. 

Source: Sixteen Minutes to Palestine

#palestine #nature

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#poll #text message #but feel free to wish for some of the others mim

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#america #little miss flint #insane

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Update: North Gaza Aid!

As part of his promise, Hussam sent 20% of your HelpGazaChildren donations ($4000) to Mahmoud AbuSalama for the 5th time now, including the earlier North Gaza Campaign (as location on our notion site) to buy food and necessary products for families still surviving the dire situation in North Gaza. The food package contains, as you see in the picture below: flour, lentils, canned food, formula, diapers, and women pads!

Please continue donating and spreading the word — every penny means so much! Feel free to share our campaign link to other platforms as well!

Donate to our GoFundMe which goes directly to Hussam, who manages camps in Rafah, with NO middleman in between!

HelpGazaChildren Notion Site || #helpgazachildren tag

GoFundMe Link

[Quick ID: The video is of Mahmoud speaking in front of bags of flour and a tumblr sign. There are captions to the video in english. The image below is of groups of packages of items in front of a tumblr sign.]

#palestine #donations

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Tomás Sánchez (Cuban, b. 1948, Aguada de Pasajeros, Cuba, based Miami, FL, USA and Costa Rica) - Sendero (Path), 1998, Drawings: Red Conté Crayon on black Paper

#art #drawing #Tomás Sánchez

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It seems to me that much of the misery we call and treat as depression today could be understood as melancholia. We may be experiencing a sense of melancholia in response to what we have lost in terms of the conversation surrounding our inner lives. Run by the pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies, most mental health treatment in the U.S. consists of short sessions of often short-term, often cognitive therapy and medication with the precise goal of returning the patient to efficient productivity. We have lost holistic treatment, and instead focus on managing the patient’s symptoms rather than finding their causes. [...] These messages that we are unfit, that our symptoms need to be eradicated rather than listened to, inform our emotional and psychic life — they contribute to our depression.

Cynthia Cruz, Disquieting

#quote #Cynthia Cruz