Little Thinkers - Or I'm the hipster king

Do you like to read? Are you a Nerd? You admire gret figures from the literature, music or artsin general? So you can’t lose this chance of have a little version of your idols on a fluffy andsmall presentation! The Unemployed Philosophers Guild are the responsables for this awesome creation, the little thinkers collection.  

They are plush toys of  celebrities like Tolstoy, Freud, Gandhi, Poe and many more characters! There's even a version of Barack Obama! These soft toys are great and definitely cannot be missed on the desktop of anyone who claims to have culture or literary hobbies (and / or aspirations). Personally for me I bought a mini version of Nietzsche to accompany me while I do my homework and I bought for my girlfriend a little Dali and a plush version of Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" (the which one scream when you press is belly. lol). They are just great!

Also worth mentioning is that its price makes it extremely accessible, as each one costs about $ 15. It's a bargain! They are more or less than 40 cm high by 20 long, and there are some like that are music Bethoveen. You can be a good mom or dad and buy one of these to inclinate the tastes of your childs since since they are babies and prevent them to admire Justin bieber’s music or the next generical shit that could emerge from MTV. Im really waiting for a mini version of Octavio Paz or Herman Hesse, hope they will craft them soon.  

Aristotelian catharsis

Aristotle once said that people liked the theater cus’ at the end of a function one out of the theater in better spirits than one entered. And this is nothing illogical, because if we come to think, to see the protagonist suffering some drama we feel identified with him and his suffering, and this somehow helps us to take out those negative emotions that sometimes make our lifes so uncomfortable. This process Aristotle called catharsis (which in Greek means purification). Have not you noticed that there are seasons in which you feel a kind of discomfort in the head, as a kind of chronic anxiety (I like to call a "metaphysical itch", if you'll excuse the pedantry) and often not you know you should? Well, the Greek philosopher explained that the feeling is that we humans have repressed emotions are always looking out, but can not find the way to do it. It is like a funnel and siguieras gourds pouring water into it, between pour more water, the greater the pressure on the cap. Well, the theater as this gentleman is a kind of acid or destroying this plug hole and let it flow what we have stored within us.

The other arts also have this healing effect, all have a song that makes us mourn, a verse that makes us feel the head burst, a painting that gives us vertigo, a movie that we love, etc.. In turn, creating art also has these same properties, and it is no coincidence that one can distinguish between a guitarist who is running with a musical passion and one that simply is playing mechanically. After knowing this does not seem so illogical that many artists have a reputation for being mentally unbalanced, since for an inner life as turbulent as carrying them, surely art is a big source of comfort and pleasure to others could be drugs. To their way to your mother when you embroidering a sweater equals Jim Morrison when he wrote his songs, so you could be more considerate next time and get that ugly brown sweater that she'll last Christmas gift.

I once read in a book by Carlos Cuauhtemoc Sanchez That if one wanted to Achieve Their Goals in Life Should start to get down to work and Entrusted to God instead of watching movies on the couch. For me personally I find it much more useful to stay home on Sunday to a movie to go to church and then waste an hour of my time bored beatitude and abetting a group worthy of an Oscar. In my view, a person who cries watching a movie is a person who even helped.

Paint or Dead - A liquid table

From the hand of designer John Nouanesing comes this exotic table which will delight all lovers of art and exotic furniture. Personally, I would like to write love sonnets about suicide and so on over this table. Unfortunately although there is no company manufacturing it in series, so for now we can only hope that someone commercializes this brilliant idea. Let us pray that come the time when we can see this on a counter from IKEA.

More works from the same designer here: http://www.johnnouanesing.fr/

Transgenic Art

Kate MacDowell is an American artist of the University of California who seeks to capture through his art the human impact on nature. Her sculptures are made of porcelain and clay. Actually seemed to me a great job and I love to have a couple of those pieces in my house.

You can find more of her work in http://katemacdowell.com/