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“The World’s Best-Sounding Power Amplifier” of 1977—Electrocompaniet’s Surprising 52-Year History

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Lucille Ball by Eliot Elisofonl for Du Barry Was a Lady, 1943

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Mozart’s Powerful Minor-Key Concerto with Conrad Tao | Mozart | Piano Concert No. 24

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Throwing shade is a slang term that means making subtle, indirect, or clever insults or criticisms about someone. It often involves being sly or sarcastic rather than outright rude, with the intent to demean or belittle someone in a subtle way.

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ass·hole
noun

  1. a person’s anus.
  2. a stupid, irritating, or contemptible person.

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“Painting is a means of translating what is intangible into something that can be grasped visually.”

Elmer Nelson Bischoff (American, 1916-1991)
Girls, Ocean, Mirror
signed, titled and dated ‘Elmer Bischoff/ Girls, Ocean, Mirror/ 10/61’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
53 ¾ x 72 in. (136.5 x 182.9 cm.)
Price realised
USD 100,000

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The Voice of Happiness

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After Bankei had passed away, a blind man who lived near the master’s
temple told a friend: “Since I am blind, I cannot watch a person’s
face, so I must judge his character by the sound of his voice.
Ordinarily when I hear someone congratulate another upon his happiness
or success, I also hear a secret tone of envy. When condolence is
expressed for the misfortune of another, I hear pleasure and
satisfaction, as if the one condoling was really glad there was
something left to gain in his own world.”

“In all my experience, however, Bankei’s voice was always sincere.
Whenever he expressed happiness, I heard nothing but happiness, and
whenever he expressed sorrow, sorrow was all I heard.”

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The Voice of Happiness

donotdestroy:

After Bankei had passed away, a blind man who lived near the master’s
temple told a friend: “Since I am blind, I cannot watch a person’s
face, so I must judge his character by the sound of his voice.
Ordinarily when I hear someone congratulate another upon his happiness
or success, I also hear a secret tone of envy. When condolence is
expressed for the misfortune of another, I hear pleasure and
satisfaction, as if the one condoling was really glad there was
something left to gain in his own world.”

“In all my experience, however, Bankei’s voice was always sincere.
Whenever he expressed happiness, I heard nothing but happiness, and
whenever he expressed sorrow, sorrow was all I heard.”

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“A fool with a tool is still a fool.”

— Grady Booch

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“The value of art lies in its power to inspire, not in its price tag.”

— Unknown

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Live Aid (Queen) Full Concert [1985, London, Wembley Stadium]

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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

— Pablo Picasso

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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity.”

Edvard Munch
Madonna (Schiefler 33; Woll 39)
lithograph with woodcut in black, rust red, blue and pale grey-green, 1895-1902, on tissue-thin Japon, a superb, strongly printed impression, the colors rich, Woll’s fourth state (of seven) before the additional strands of hair across the torso, signed in pencil, with wide margins, deckle along the upper and right sheet edges, the lower and left sheet edges trimmed at time of printing, in excellent condition, framed
L. 21 7/8 x 13¾ in. (556 x 349 mm.)
S. 25¾ x 17¾ in. (654 x 451 mm.)
Price realised
USD 650,500

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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

— Herman Melville