Intentionality Projected

“The horrors… The horrors.”

- Kurtz (Apocalypse Now, 1979)

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mauipastor:

Moving Mountains - 8105

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limbsx:

How many coffees are required to have me sit down long enough to complete this lit review? (Taken with instagram)

Coffee and assignments forever

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hair-denim-sex-metal:

Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast

Love this song.

(Source: killfxckdie)

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I got this tattoo in memory of Hitchens. It was only a few days after he died in December and I was already getting an open book tattooed.

After reading some of the things being posted by his friends at the memorial service that was held for him in New York, I decided i’d post a picture of the tattoo although it isn’t finished yet (Some shading/colour on the pages of the book and the two cigarettes).

For those people who don’t know, Hitchens loved his black label scotch and cigarettes.

He spoke the truth and was unapologetic about what he believed in.

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Stephen Fry on Hitchens’s dislike of cricket and opera: To Hitch, it was torture. “Even Saddam wouldn’t go that far.”

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And so it is with the workman of art. Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off. And thus-the aim of art, which, like life itself, is inspiring, difficult-obscured by mists. It is not in the clear logic of a triumphant conclusion; it is not in the unveiling of one of those heartless secrets which are called the laws of nature. It is not less great, but more difficult.
To arrest, for the space of a breath, the hands busy about the work of the earth, and compel men entranced by the sight of distant goals to glance for a moment at the surrounding vision of form and colour, of sunshine and shadows; to make them pause for a look, for a sigh, for a smile-such is the aim, difficult and evanescent, and reserved only for the very few to achieve. But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished-behold!-all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile-and the return to an eternal rest.”

- Joseph Conrad, Preface to the not-so-aptly named “The Nigger of Narcissus” (1897)

1 month ago

videogamenostalgia:

Usually I don’t like to brag about my beta invites, but I just thought that I’d share this with you guys. I got this email this morning after I woke up. It looks like it’s actually happening. I can say that I am excited and that I’ll be reporting on this as much as I can.

This is a very cruel April fool’s joke.

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I was fortunate enough to arrive at this convention, just in time to watch him speak

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The Endowment Effect

In the psychology of judgment and decision making/behavioural economics , the endowment effect refers to a the bias that people have where items that one possesses are valued more than items they do not possess.

For a summary of this bias along with some examples of it in an experimental setting, see Kahneman, Knetsch and Thaler (1991)

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