Alex Reid

Stephen Wiltshire is a British architectural artist.

He draws detailed panoramas from memory.

In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter ride over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw.

“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” was the title of a column piece in the Chicago Tribune written by Mary Schmich in 1997.

In 1999, the essay became the basis of the 1999 hit music single “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)”, by Baz Luhrmann.

I encourage you to give it a listen/watch here.

This morning, I woke up too early, unable to return to sleep. So I began watching a mediocre documentary about Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES).

I found this quote quite apt:

Given that we live in a culture (that) is addicted, that everyone says, to oil where we engage in the pursuit of the amenities and luxuries provided by oil despite the fact that we’re destroying the earth, who are we to tell the addict they shouldn’t be engaging in self-destructive behaviour.

In other words, it’s the scapegoating.

We’re deeply related to the addict. We just don’t want to see the relationship. So we ostracize them and banish them to the social periphery.

~ Dr. Gabor Maté

More Dr. Suess Dr. Seuss; perhaps the best video about Burningman 2011.

Here are some good Dr. Seuss quotes that social media junkies should bear in mind in the coming year.

(kudos to Christian for digging this)