15 Damaging Myths About Life

This article is a great reminder:

15 Damaging Myths About Life We Should All Stop Believing

America

Simon & Garfunkel cover by Passenger.

New Slang

Come on Feel the Illinoise

Touch

Love this song.

According to Pitchfork, "the song warps and bends, floating through genres, 

epochs, and emotions with a sense of hallucinatory wonder".

Everybody has got 5.5 Liters of Blood

Living Deliberately

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

This is a great quote from Walden recently used in a post about creating memories on my friend Jon's blog. 

The World is Just Awesome

Bon Iver at AIR Studios

If I could only watch one video on YouTube for the rest of my life, this might be it.

IRONMAN Training

I've fallen out of the habit of posting, but this video made by my friend Sterling is too inspiring not to share. 

Look Up

Standing Up for Positive Change

This is C.C. Patterson. I learned about him watching Cosmos. He was a scientist who fought against the use of lead in gasoline and other products. A generation later, countless people have avoided lead poisoning and other negative effects.

Anthem

Habits of Successful People

Kintaro Walks Japan

Great movie about a guy who walked the length of Japan in search for his father's birthplace. Watch it here on YouTube.

 

Great Wall of China

No picture can do this sight justice.

The Man in the Arena

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt

Stop Caring about Stupid Things

12 stupid things people care way too much about.

Sigur Rós BBC London

Amazing concert.

Monument Valley

This photo was taken by my friend Tak. Check out his web site here.

This Too Shall Pass

OK Go is one of the most creative bands I know. (Notwithstanding on this particular video they had the help of the California Institute of Technology.)

Storms in Africa

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.   

His house is in the village though;   

He will not see me stopping here   

To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   

To stop without a farmhouse near   

Between the woods and frozen lake   

The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   

To ask if there is some mistake.   

The only other sound’s the sweep   

Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

A Really Good Cloak

One of my favorite scenes from cinema. (Sorry, contains one swear.)

Ullswater

Always loved this print at the mall, but was too cheap to buy it!

Cuando los Ángeles Lloran

The Saltwater Room

The Build-Up

Cold Water

Flavor of Life

Now We are Free

Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen

An oldie but a goodie.

Ways the World is Getting Better

Live Like a Warrior

Loans that Change Lives

I've been making small loans through Kiva since 2007.

Justice in the Universe

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” - Martin Luther King Jr. 

Ára Bátur

Khan Academy

Now everyone with access to a computer and the Internet can get a world-class education, for free. There are no more excuses.

Free Rice

A free way to donate rice to people who need it through the UN World Food Program. Plus, you learn stuff while you are at it. Win-Win-Win.

Trailblazer

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - R.W. Emerson

Life Means So Much

Every day is a bank account
And time is our currency
Nobody's rich, nobody's poor
We get 24 hours each
So how are you gonna spend
Will you invest, or squander
Try to get ahead
Or help someone who's under

The Other Starry Night

Starry Night

Cast Away

Sometimes the power and freedom to choose is more important than the choice itself.

Yunus

“I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.”

-Muhammad Yunus, Micro-Credit pioneer and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner

What a Wonderful World