The Snow Child
I love you, child, she whispered. Faina’s face was quiet and kind. I wish to be the mother you are to me, she said so softly Mabel doubted her own ears. But those were the words she spoke, and Mabel took them into her heart and held them there forever. —Eowyn Ivey
Gilead
I can tell you this, that if I’d married some rosy dame and she had given me ten children and they had each given me ten grandchildren, I’d leave them all, on Christmas Eve, on the coldest night of the world, and walk a thousand miles just for the sight of your face, your mother’s […]
First and Final Frames
First and Final Frames from Jacob T. Swinney on Vimeo.
30 for 30 Shorts: The Anti-Mascot
Our latest film, directed by Colin Hanks, tells the story of how a bad team and an even worse idea were an ugly combination in San Francisco. Source: 30 for 30 Shorts: The Anti-Mascot «
A Little Life
You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to […]
Adrift
Adrift from Simon Christen on Vimeo.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Which did I think would make the best companion for a man’s nether years, Miss X or Miss Y? I told him that if one had to ask which, it generally meant neither. —Mary Ann Shaffer
Antarctica by Kalle Ljung
The Amazing Costumes of Game of Thrones
Flight Videos Deconstructed
Source: http://tabletopwhale.com/2014/29/flight-videos-deconstructed.html
History of Commerce: From Cattle to Bitcoin
Source: http://designyoutrust.com/2015/history-of-commerce-from-cattle-to-bitcoin/
City of Thieves
Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She’s beautiful; when you’re with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence: your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening […]
How to Become Gluten Intolerant
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Are two types of jokes. One sort goes on being funny forever. Other sort is funny once. Second time it’s dull. This joke is second sort. Use it once, you’re a wit. Use twice, you’re a halfwit. —Robert Heinlein
The Rick Astley Remixer
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Birdy
I don’t know how long I was dreaming the dream before I began to know. It’s hard to know you’re dreaming unless you catch yourself doing it. —William Wharton
Gotham City SF // A Timelapse Film
Gotham City SF // A Timelapse Film from Toby Harriman on Vimeo.
Empire Falls
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect. —Richard Russo
Bring Up the Bodies
You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it’s like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you’re thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws. —Hilary Mantel
