Robert L. Peters

23 November 2014

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one’s soul to grow.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)


19 November 2014

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)


16 November 2014

Seeing you heals me.

—Rumi


13 November 2014

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)


10 November 2014

I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)


9 November 2014

Museum of Selfies

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Copenhagen, Denmark

See more or contribute to the growing collection at the Museum of Selfies.

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7 November 2014

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970)


4 November 2014

Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree

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(somewhere in the post-apocolyptic North)

“When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian).”

“Lessons on language families are often illustrated with a simple tree diagram that has all the information but lacks imagination. There’s no reason linguistics has to be so visually uninspiring. Minna Sundberg, creator of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent, a story set in a lushly imagined post-apocalyptic Nordic world, has drawn the antidote to the boring linguistic tree diagram.”

Access the full-size diagram here. (Source).


1 November 2014

Project Thirty-Three

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Seattle, USA

Project Thirty-Three celebrates “vintage record jackets that convey their message with only simple shapes and typography… a personal collection and shrine to circles and dots, squares and rectangles, and triangles, and the designers that make these shapes come to life on album covers.”


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