Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. — George Orwell
www.etsy.com/listing/1756964083/george-orwell-1984-wall-art-dystopian
“The greatest threat to democracy would never be an outside enemy but rather malefactors of great wealth who would steal our democracy from within”. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Illustration by Edel Rodriguez
Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people that you never met. - Doug Stanhope
“Documentary films are exceptionally good at communicating new knowledge about the world, and since tech giants and algorithms are really defining our everyday lives, it is absolutely crucial that our festival deals with and questions these great scientific and technological advances.” - Tine Fischer, CPH:DOX Film Festival
Source: https://realscreen.com/2021/03/26/cphdox-21-unveils-science-program-of-docs-and-debates/
"Those writers who have gotten humanity to care about the natural world — which is the world — have done so because they themselves have moved through it with a sense of wonder, each of them an Alice making a Wonderland of Earth. " - Maria Popova in Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland
Artwork by Jim Woodring
"Netflix's programming is based on algorithms, and the results are mixed. Even though HBO spends way less money, they continue to have better programming on average because they stick with their programming philosophy, which is fundamentally trust the artist!" ― John Koblin, On the Media podcast, 12/9/2022
“Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Cornell West
Photo by Helen Levitt
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you. - Susan Sontag
“The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.” - Mae Jemison
Artwork by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum.
https://www.instagram.com/pamelaphatsimo/
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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