December 2011
7 posts
10% of this year's Sundance selections raised... →
whitneymcn:
This is mindblowing from a wide variety of perspectives, so I’ll just pick one:
Remember when Kickstarter hit 1MM backers a couple of months ago, and it was pointed by (first by @garychou, I believe) that the money pledged by Kickstarter backers was approaching 65% of the NEA’s annual budget?
Well consider this: the Sundance Institute itself received NEA grants totaling $180,000...
Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo....
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excerpt from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera (via emmakempsell)
There was a period of a couple of years where all I did was read this book
(via newspeedwayboogie)