By Salvador Dalí (1954) - Surrealism
After WWII Dalí entered his "nuclear mysticism" phase, fascinated both by Catholicism and nuclear physics. Strange, dreamlike, ambiguous, and impossible - but all realistically portrayed. That's Surrealism.
Humility is the virtue of seeing each sunrise as truly new. Little children have no trouble with this perspective, they could not live any other way. Everything is visceral to them, and they carry this visceral interiority everywhere.
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Before / After of a coffee shop in my college town. It was named Saint’s Cafe & had stained glass & a Victorian couch and was quite cozy and now it’s been taken over by modernists and is called Elixr and looks like every other coffee shop on the planet & also like McDonald’s
In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [video from The Curiosity Show: https://t.co/DF82ASFj1a]
The first American solider to win the "Croix de Guerre" was Private Henry Johnson from New York in 1918.
So you ask: why did an American soldier earn a FRENCH military award during World War I?
Well, it's a story that illustrates both the best...and the worst of humankind:
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You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.