Born today September 9th 1828 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) was a Russian aristocrat and one of the world’s most preeminent writers. Tolstoy become famous through his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree […]
Let the snow begin*. Saturday was our first ski of the season, with Whistler Blackcomb opening the previous day, a week earlier than planned.
This week’s photo challenge is about being experimental. Seeing the northern lights (aurora borealis) in the Northern hemisphere, or the southern lights (aurora australis) in the Southern hemisphere, and shooting it, has been a dream for a long time. This spectacular phenomenon is created by charged particles from the sun, interacting with gaseous particles in […]
via How to Photograph the Northern Lights in Iceland — Sights & Insights
A good working definition of propaganda might be: “Information designed to appeal directly to emotion, bypassing reason.”
Propaganda, The Big Lie and Adolf Hitler: 20 Hitler Quotes on Propaganda
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
-Kurt Vonnegut
“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”
Don had longed to go to a big meeting for a long time. He had prepared in front of the mirror talking to and admiring himself. After two months he felt strong and proceeded to the meeting. Then someone called him an idiot, Don started crying and ran home to his friend, the mirror
Sig Nordal 