This is cool.. Give it a try!
Step 1:
You are already sitting at your desk, in front of your computer. That’s fine, stay there. Lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
Step 2:
Now, while doing this, draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand.
Step 3:
Your foot with automatically change direction.
You can try to outsmart your foot, and attempt it again and again, with the same result.
More quotes by Nietzsche:
“Man … always remains attached to the past: however far and fast he runs, the chain runs with him.”
“Through music the passions enjoy themselves.”
“The perfect female is a higher type of human being than the perfect male: and also something much more rare. – Zoological science provides the means to support this proposition.”
“Every word is a prejudice.”
German philosopher, b. Röcken, Prussia. (1844-1900)
The son of a clergyman, Nietzsche studied Greek and Latin at Bonn and Leipzig and was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basel in 1869. In his early years he was friendly with the composer Richard Wagner, although later he was to turn against him. Nervous disturbances and eye trouble forced Nietzsche to leave Basel in 1879; he moved from place to place in a vain effort to improve his health until 1889, when he became hopelessly insane. Nietzsche was not a systematic philosopher but rather a moralist who passionately rejected Western bourgeois civilization. He regarded Christian civilization as decadent, and in place of its “slave morality” he looked to the superman, the creator of a new heroic morality that would consciously affirm life and the life values. That superman would represent the highest passion and creativity and would live at a level of experience beyond the conventional standards of good and evil. His creative “will to power” would set him off from “the herd” of inferior humanity.
Among his most famous works are The Birth of Tragedy (1872, tr. 1910); Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-91, tr. 1909, 1930), and Beyond Good and Evil (1886, tr. 1907).
Growing up Dali used to be my favorite painter. I can’t say that he still is, I am not sure who is.. maybe my ever developing self.
Born in Catalonia, Spain
May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989
At any rate, Dali deserves a very special place on this page. Instead of showing his works which everyone already knows and has seen a million times, here are a few less known Dalis..
Salvador Dali collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released in 2003. To be exact, Destino premiered on June 2, 2003 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France. The six-minute short follows a female dancer as she dances through surreal scenery inspired by Dali’s paintings.
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This is one of the saddest stories I ever read.
Read the English version below or download the German version:
Wie ich eines schönen Morgens im April das 100%ige Mädchen sah.. – Haruki Murakami
Each one of them was extra-ordinary, their personalities unique and their painting styles different from each other, so how did their studios and ateliers look? Let’s take a glimpse into the epicenter of individualism and artistic creation, starting with Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall.
Salvador Dali’s favorite chair, his palette and some brushes, all located in his home in Cadaques/Catalonia:
Picasso in his studio in Cannes/France, 1956, with Brigitte Bardot (above), and a few of him solo (below).
From left to right: Marc Chagall 1942, Marc Chagall in his studio in Paris 1933
Marc Chagall in his studio 1955
