We Are The Digital Kids

Apr 29

(Source: topographe, via awelltraveledwoman)

“I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when their face says they want to say something but can’t, the way they look at someone they want or love… I love the way people look when they do these things. It’s… beautiful.” — Clemence Poesy (via awelltraveledwoman)

(Source: definitelymaybe1, via awelltraveledwoman)

Apr 26

I love imagining what Internet cafes were like during this time in China. “tycoons in fur” is such an incredible image considering what these cafes are like now “[The first time I used the Internet] it was in 1998. I was stunned. I’d heard of it before, but didn’t expect it to be so amazing. Maybe it was just a kind of net, I thought. An internet bar opened in the neighborhood that year. It cost around 2 or 3 Yuan per hour, a bit expensive for me at that time. Most of the customers were rich people. A lot of tycoons in fur went there, with their big handbag. From there, I started to use different websites, and QQ. I was obsessed with chatting with strangers on QQ. That obsession even exceeded my interest in playing online games.” wordsofagenerationmeet: Meet Guo Yajia34, Shanghai, Photographer  

I love imagining what Internet cafes were like during this time in China. “tycoons in fur” is such an incredible image considering what these cafes are like now

“[The first time I used the Internet] it was in 1998. I was stunned. I’d heard of it before, but didn’t expect it to be so amazing. Maybe it was just a kind of net, I thought. An internet bar opened in the neighborhood that year. It cost around 2 or 3 Yuan per hour, a bit expensive for me at that time. Most of the customers were rich people. A lot of tycoons in fur went there, with their big handbag. From there, I started to use different websites, and QQ. I was obsessed with chatting with strangers on QQ. That obsession even exceeded my interest in playing online games.”

wordsofagenerationmeet:

Meet Guo Yajia
34, Shanghai, Photographer

 

“Half of my time is spent on the Internet now. I don’t know if it is a healthy way of life, but I can’t live without it… I use real name on the Internet and barely make a sound. Actually I admire those who have a virtual life, and it is kind of a creation. Even now I don’t know if the real me is talking to you. I could have told you different stories and answer your questions with 10 different answers.” — M, 35, Beijing

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Apr 24

“I’m not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, ‘Yes, we are part of a world.’” — Studs Terkel 

Apr 23

Move, Fail, Break, Create

“Stuff you should do before you’re 35. Move. Live a dream. Fail miserably. Dream bigger. Get your heart broken. Create your reason.”

— umair haque (@umairh) April 23, 2013

That space beween break and create 

Apr 22

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“The reason isn’t found, or discovered. It is created. It is the great act of a life; the culminating act that joins our choices and decisions into a trajectory that resonates. A purpose is what you make: a book, a company, a bonus. A reason is what you live: knowledge, art, enlightenment, and more. What do you want your life to be? What is it that you want to live? When it comes not just to stuff, but to life, what is that you want to enact?” — A beautifully written piece on reason by Umair Haque

“A great enough writer seems to be born with knowledge. But he really is not; he has only been born with the ability to learn in a quicker ratio to the passage of time than other men and without conscious application, and with an intelligence to accept or reject what is already presented as knowledge. There are some things which cannot be learned quickly and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always, a certain nominal percentage in experience to be able to understand and assimilate what is available as his birthright and what he must, in turn, take his departure from.” -Hemingway, from here.

“A great enough writer seems to be born with knowledge. But he really is not; he has only been born with the ability to learn in a quicker ratio to the passage of time than other men and without conscious application, and with an intelligence to accept or reject what is already presented as knowledge. There are some things which cannot be learned quickly and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always, a certain nominal percentage in experience to be able to understand and assimilate what is available as his birthright and what he must, in turn, take his departure from.”

-Hemingway, from here.