Eight Tips For Sustainable Blogging — The Daily Post

Try these smart strategies to keep your blog alive for years. via Eight Tips For Sustainable Blogging — The Daily Post

Oliver Stone’s football saga as an overtly ambitious sporting melodrama

Oliver Stone's 1999 sports drama film Any Given Sunday is a most unconventional sports flick ever made. Stone's larger-than-life, energetic sports feature, showcasing the on and off field exploits of a professional football team known as the Miami Sharks, is a smorgasbord of intense sporting action, powerful melodrama, plethora of image flashes and head-bursting rock …

Seeing is Believing — Rationalising The Universe

What is the basis of human belief regarding the existence of independent objects? When it comes to the sciences the basis is often that classic (yet often misused) word ‘proof’ … but what is it that constitutes proof in the scientific world? via Seeing is Believing — Rationalising The Universe

What Can and Can’t be Learned From a Book — Longreads

How learning to swim at 24 led Syam Palakurthy to first-hand lessons in gentrification. via What Can and Can’t be Learned From a Book — Longreads

Alexandra Shimo — Discover

The website of journalist Alexandra Shimo, author of Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve and Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey through the Turbulent Waters of Native History. via Alexandra Shimo — Discover

you are the owner of your life! — World Through My Eyes

It takes thousands of artisans and hundreds of years to craft a breathtaking piece of architecture, but only one artisan and an entire lifetime to carve your life. You and only you are responsible for whatever happens to you and only you have the rights to either make yourself or break yourself.! via you are the …

Runner Beans — Discover

Jean Mackay renders light, shadow, and depth in this watercolor — featuring runner beans from her garden. via Runner Beans — Discover

The three elements of success — Cristian Mihai

There are three elements to becoming succesful in any given area. Motivation: I also like to call it willpower. You simply want to get from point A to point B. You want it. You are driven. You are willing to go the distance. It’s that inner passion, impossible to describe. It’s the flame that burns […] …

The Lighthouse — Discover

Can you spot the fact and fiction in Andrew Engelson’s curious story of Captain Philemon A. Codd — a man whose life was shaped by a random tragedy 175 years ago? via The Lighthouse — Discover

Curation and creation in Jim Jarmusch’s vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive — Biblioklept

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbxI_oRSKI Jim Jarmusch’s film Only Lovers Left Alive is excellent. Moody, sometimes funny, always gorgeous, and largely plotless, the film centers on two vampires—Adam and Eve, played by Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton—who fill their long lives with music, literature, and love. At its core, the film is an elegiac love song to aesthetic originary …