"๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต." With a degree in mechanical engineering and inspired by Piet Mondrian, Calder went on to pioneer kinetic art, breaking away from traditional concepts of paintings and sculptures.
"๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ฆ๐ต, ๐ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ." Early one summer morning, Ernest Hemingway took his favorite double-barrel shotgun, bent himself over it, and pulled the trigger.
Orwell's seminal dystopian novel was written in light of Nazi Germany and the consequences of hate-filled ideologies. Set in the future, this story about governments driving perpetual wars, cameras tracking our private lives, and the use of psychological and physical torture has become frighteningly true. It was only meant to be a warning.
"๐ฝ๐๐๐๐ช๐จ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ค๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐." -Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Lecture
At 21, Basquiat was the youngest to exhibit in the 1982 Documenta in Kassel, Germany and in the 1983 Whitney Biennial. But he died too soon at 27 before there was sufficient language to articulate the genius of his art, before people thoroughly realized the importance of his work.
Cartagena - a city Mรกrquez described like an amethyst afternoon. Cobbled streets, colonial buildings, and two-story casas. A rainbow of colors and flowered vines spilling over. As enchanting as he tells it in ๐๐ค๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ ๐ค๐ ๐พ๐๐ค๐ก๐๐ง๐ and ๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ง ๐ฟ๐๐ข๐ค๐ฃ๐จ.
The importance of ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ช๐ฃ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐จ ๐ค๐ ๐๐ค๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ช๐๐ has been compared to the Bible and ๐ฟ๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐ช๐๐ญ๐ค๐ฉ๐, but I believe the story's brilliance surpasses both. This is the one book everyone should read at least once. As Salman Rushdie put it, "๐๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ขฬ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ป ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ."
In teaching us that travel equated wisdom, Bourdain showed us that the more you do travel the more you learn how much you donโt know and how much more you want to know.. an endless paradox.
In 1954, Clarence Stahl was told by several architects that he would never be able to build on this hilltop filled with broken concrete. USC architect Pierre Koenig would prove them wrong. And after city officials finally approved the building plans, they said no one would want another house like it. Again, Koenig would prove them wrong.
One of the most visionary architects, Zaha never compromised her designs, even when her engineers told her they could not be built. Instead she pushed technology to advance farther, faster to build them.
