lucidbeaming

lucidbeaming

@lucidbeaming.com

Artist. Berlin > San Francisco. https://lucidbeaming.com

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A ranked list of diner jellies: 1. blackberry 2. orange marmalade 3. strawberry 4. grape Mixed fruit does not rank. Sorry.

"There are sharp edges to creating your own reality. Yes, it can help you find meaning in challenge and pain, can help you change. But it can also keep you tangled in self-blame or floating blithely above it all, blind to the forces shaping your life or destroying others." – Benoit Lewis

Getty absorbed most of the great photography archives in history. They were predatory about it and unfair to photographers. Not weeping for them. But, there is a 100% chance those archives will now be sold to AI trainers for pennies on the dollar. finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...

finance.yahoo.comGetty Images to file for bankruptcy as investors pledge $533 million rescueGetty Images Holdings Inc. (NYSE:GETY), the global photography and visual content provider, plans to file for bankruptcy protection under a $533 million rescue deal designed to reduce debt and take th...

"It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. It is the same for anything that can be called a Way. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own." – Hagakure

"Art is the ability, through visual, verbal, gestural and musical means, to objectify one's experience of the world: to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be alive." – Barbara Kruger

"You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales." – Alan Watts

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -W. L. Sheldon

Let go of endless optimization. Be present. In the end, gratitude is more useful than happiness. Cultivate gratitude like a farmer. Let the seasons come and go. Harvest when you can. Give away what's left over.

I used to be a journalist and still have a lot of LinkedIn connections from that time. The jobs they're being forced to take are depressing. I went through that transition years ago and it was tough. Feeling for my peeps right now.

TMobile charges a premium for international calls. Was just charged $186 to wait on hold with the German government for an hour. Ironically, their system automatically hangs up if you been on hold that long. So, I paid $186 for listening to hold music loops and then they hing up on me.