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Drake dropped the video for “Hotline Bling” earlier this week, and it looked awfully familiar.

James Turrell, the artist whose installation work with light and space Drake took inspiration from, finally answered the question we’ve all been asking:

“While I am truly flattered to learn that Drake f*cks with me, I nevertheless wish to make clear that neither I nor any of my woes was involved in any way in the making of the Hotline Bling video.”

Could’ve fooled us!

MORE: Is It Fine Art, or Is It Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’?

(Source: Wired)

R.Buckminster Fuller. Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity. Pelican. 1973.

Tonight please pray for all the innocent lives that will be lost in Syria due to the airstrike decision which has been agreed upon.

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method 

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos  (via victoriousvocabulary)

This analysis book was published in 1970. At some point in its life before I purchased it last summer (a life which spanned 18 years before I was even born, by the way), it was owned by someone who read every page, and wrote enthusiastic comments in the margins next to particularly thrilling conclusions to proofs. I love this subject, and I share every sentiment with this unknown stranger. I too love the drama of confusion and the triumph of understanding, and I love sharing that experience with this person with whom I have a rare and important commonality. Wherever you are book-commenting analysis enthusiast, I think the world of you. I hope you have a happy life full of abstract mathematics.

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Once you start thinking of ‘poet’ as identity, once you start thinking that being a poet is just like being anything else that you are, as being something else that you were born, then you can go about doing the things that poets do, and you can go about that more comfortably. Or at least I think so. Or at least it gives you a rationale for why you’re doing what poets do. Like, ‘Why are you still in the dark, trying to read, at two o’clock in the morning?’ ‘Oh, because I’m a poet.’ ‘Why are you pulling your car over to write a line down and you’re already late to where you’re going?’ ‘Because I’m a poet.’

Jericho Brown, interviewed by Elisa Gonzalez for Washington Square Review (via bostonpoetryslam)