The Culture Rabble

Stats Pr0n of the Day: Money Really Can Buy Happiness

Since the publication of the “Easterlin paradox” in 1974, researchers from around the globe have been trying to prove whether or not a person’s net worth correlates with how happy they are. In 2008, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers found a logarithmic correlation between one’s income and life satisfaction. The research duo published a new paper last month to reveal that this correlation has held up through recessions, with people in 25 countries reporting higher life satisfaction with higher pay.

Why Humans Will Survive the Next World-Ending Catastrophe

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:33:31 -0400

Why Humans Will Survive the Next World-Ending Catastrophe:

There’s growing evidence that Earth may be headed for a mass extinction, where over 75 percent of all species die out and the world is changed forever. There’s also evidence that humans would survive such an event — for better or for worse. Here’s why.

Kevin Smith Makes Plans for Clerks III - ComingSoon.net

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:55:20 -0500

Kevin Smith Makes Plans for Clerks III - ComingSoon.net

illegalsoma: Happy Birthday, Jim Morrison.

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:12:31 -0500

illegalsoma:

Happy Birthday, Jim Morrison.

neil-gaiman: shannawesome: neil-gaiman: “Advice to Aspiring...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:18:24 -0500

neil-gaiman:

shannawesome:

neil-gaiman:

“Advice to Aspiring Artists”.

This is very short. But if you only ever watch or reblog one YouTube video with me in it, make it this one. I mean it. This is important.

Transcribed for your quoting convenience:

“Saying that we have enough artists is like saying we have enough scientists, we have enough designers, we have enough politicians — we have enough politicians — but, you know, nobody gets to be you except you. Nobody has your point of view except you. Nobody gets to bring to the world the things that you get to bring to the world — uniquely get to bring to the world — except you. So, saying that there are enough writers out there, enough directors out there, enough people with points of view. Well yeah, there are, but none of them are you. And none of those people is going to make the art that you are going to make. None of them is going to change people and change the world in the way that you could change it. So if you believe somebody that says, “no, no, we’ve got enough of those,” then all it means is that you are giving up your chance to change the world in the way that only you can change it.”

Signal boost for the transcription. (Thank you.)

nevver: I feel fine/nothing, Emotional Map

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:30:33 -0500

nevver:

I feel fine/nothing, Emotional Map

nevver: Les juxtapositions

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:22:48 -0500

nevver:

Les juxtapositions

ionic-columns: Fred Wilson,Metalwork, 1723-1880. Exhibited in...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:22:17 -0500

ionic-columns:

Fred Wilson,Metalwork, 1723-1880.

Exhibited in 1991, Wilson, an African American artist, presented an ordinary collection of metal objects, mostly serving containers, from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And also slave shackles in the middle, to remind everyone of a different part of history from that time period—slavery.

“In Mining the Museum I’m not trying to say that this is the history that you should be paying attention to. I’m just pointing out that, in an environment that supposedly has the history of Maryland, it’s possible that there’s another history that’s not being talked
about.” — Fred Wilson October (1994)

nevver: Krampus

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:29:26 -0500

nevver:

Krampus

icanseeyourprivacy: Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:29:47 -0500

icanseeyourprivacy:

Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful

gamefreaksnz: Twitter / janemarielynch: @wreckitralph...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:08:18 -0500

gamefreaksnz:

Twitter / janemarielynch: @wreckitralph @TheEllenShow

Meet The 17-Year-Old Who Blew The Lid Off Racial Profiling With His iPod - WATCH & SHARE!

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:37:18 -0400

Meet The 17-Year-Old Who Blew The Lid Off Racial Profiling With His iPod - WATCH & SHARE! :

“We’re going to go out there and violate some rights.” Hear secret police recordings that will…

"They lied to you, sold you ideas of good and evil, gave you distrust of your body and shame for your..."

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:33:40 -0400

“They lied to you, sold you ideas of good and evil, gave you distrust of your body and shame for your prophethood of chaos, invented words of disgust for your molecular love, mesmerized you with inattention, bored you with civilization.”

- Hakim Bey (via wolffeeder)

"And it is this hope alone that casts a gleam of joy upon the features of a world torn assunder and..."

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:32:13 -0400

“And it is this hope alone that casts a gleam of joy upon the features of a world torn assunder and shattered into individuals; this is symbolized in the myth of Demeter, sunk in eternal sorrow, who rejoices again for the first time when told that she may once more give birth to Dionysus. This view of all things already provides us with all the elements of a profound and pessimistic view of the world, together with the mystery doctrine of tragedy: the fundamental knowledge of the oneness of everything existent, the conception of individuation as the primal cause of evil, and of art as the joyous hope that the spell of individuation may be broken in augury of a restored oneness.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche (via besurreal)

laughingsquid: Stray Light Grey, Art Exhibition of a Series of...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:28:15 -0400

laughingsquid:

Stray Light Grey, Art Exhibition of a Series of Bizarre Rooms

W O R D. First World Problems (by nigahiga)

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:45:52 -0400

W O R D.

First World Problems (by nigahiga)