Tumblr (3.0; @generalimpressions)https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/60a96b64753ce20f6a5e378283c42dae/tumblr_mponrpjbDH1r5wgcio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Ernst Machs <em>Selbstanschauung des Ich</em> (1886), a self-portrait from the inside out.</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/55018638677https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/55018638677Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:07:00 +0200sense of placeA not-exactly-randomly selected trip through the contemporary music video landscape. Best viewed in...https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/44363294866https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/44363294866Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:30:00 +0100MusicPlaylistWanderlustSense of place<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mav106yHRq1r5wgcio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramlijn_7_(Antwerpen)" target="_blank">Tram number 7</a>, connecting Mortsel and Antwerpen, on the Meirbrug in August 1964.</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/32198878186https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/32198878186Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:14:00 +0200AntwerpenNostalghia<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_magsxtT0D91r5wgcio2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_magsxtT0D91r5wgcio3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_magsxtT0D91r5wgcio1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/31691138078https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/31691138078Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:53:00 +0200KaratePaul SimonCodeineMusic<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_magrtoeNsb1r5wgcio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.nikosmarkou.com" target="_blank">Nikos Markou</a>.</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/31689553324https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/31689553324Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:29:48 +0200Nikos MarkouSense of placePhotography<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hsvwZDyf1r5wgcio3_r1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hsvwZDyf1r5wgcio1_r1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hsvwZDyf1r5wgcio4_r1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hsvwZDyf1r5wgcio2_r1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p>We have found little to indicate that indiscriminately promoting self-esteem in today’s children or adults, just for being themselves, offers society any compensatory benefits beyond the seductive pleasure it brings to those engaged in the exercise.“</p> </blockquote> <p>R.F. Baumeister <em>et al</em>, "Exploding the Self-Esteem Myth”, <em>Scientific American</em> 292, January 2005.</p> <p><a href="http://cranepsych.edublogs.org/files/2009/06/Self_esteem_myth.pdf" target="_blank">Theory</a> underpinning <a href="http://www.outpost-daria.com/ep101.html" target="_blank">satire</a>.</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/29053690088https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/29053690088Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:43:00 +0200DariaAmusing“Even if you have assiduously kept records - in words, sound, pictures - you may find that you...https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/28353506634https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/28353506634Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:40:42 +0200LiteratureJulian BarnesThe words of othersWhite noise<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m708ncxBn51r5wgcio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>© <a href="http://www.pavementlicker.com/" target="_blank">Pavement Licker</a> No. 07.</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/26983564571https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/26983564571Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:33:12 +0200Pavement LickerAmusing<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m701jlxxfw1r5wgcio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mer_de_Glace" target="_blank">Mer de Glace glacier</a> near Chamonix in the French Alps. Picture from the 1921 Collier’s Encyclopedia. Will this astonishing landscape survive the twenty-first century?</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/26976625076https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/26976625076Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:59:00 +0200Sense of place The sounds of somewhere - The places of Richmond Fontaine’s Winnemucca Last year in September I...https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/26795668494https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/26795668494Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:18:00 +0200MusicRichmond FontaineSense of place<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5qfcboae01r5wgcio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>Bei der Trauer ist die Welt arm und leer geworden, bei der Melancholie ist es das Ich selbst.</p> </blockquote> <p>Sigmund Freud, Trauer und Melancholie.</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/25252834862https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/25252834862Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:48:11 +0200MelancholiaSigmund FreudWanderlust<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5m1oe7Lwm1r5wgcio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I sentimenti non espressi non si dimenticano.</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/25090120782https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/25090120782Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:02:38 +0200Andrei TarkovskyNostalghiaCinema<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m460qaMQyn1r5wgcio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Saul Leiter, “Lanesville” (1958).</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/23224595578https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/23224595578Thu, 17 May 2012 13:46:58 +0200PhotographySaul LeiterWomen<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4335cnx0O1r5wgcio1_400.gifv"/><br/><br/><p>“Bombazijn, dat brave beertje</p> <p>Die at ’s zondags graag een peertje</p> <p>’s Zaterdags een stukje worst</p> <p>Met een biertje voor de dorst.”</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/23124086611https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/23124086611Tue, 15 May 2012 23:46:24 +0200Willem Frederik HermansHeartwarming<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3p9j2bzfK1r5wgcio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Free books in Daytona Beach.</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/22646482072https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/22646482072Tue, 08 May 2012 12:37:00 +0200Street viewHeartwarming<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3kok5AdwI1r5wgcio3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3kok5AdwI1r5wgcio1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3kok5AdwI1r5wgcio2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowWithinAShow" target="_blank">Shows within shows</a>.</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/22477811800https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/22477811800Sun, 06 May 2012 01:14:00 +0200DariaTwin PeaksWoody Allen“Do you feel like a remnant Of something that’s past? Do you find things are moving Just...https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/22476175504https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/22476175504Sun, 06 May 2012 00:46:31 +0200Nick DrakeThe words of others<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3kmtjlglP1r5wgcio3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3kmtjlglP1r5wgcio1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3kmtjlglP1r5wgcio2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p>Die kritische Subjektivierung beruht auf Entfaszinierung als Zurückhaltung der Ergriffenheit. Seitdem die Schriftkultur ihr Gesetz geltend gemacht hat, bedeutet Subjekt sein vor allem: den begegnenden Bildern, Texten, Reden und Musiken zunächst und zumeist widerstehen können.</p> </blockquote> <p>Peter Sloterdijk, <em>Sphären I</em>, chapter 7: “Das Sirenen-Stadium”.</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/22475618084https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/22475618084Sun, 06 May 2012 00:36:00 +0200Peter SloterdijkPhilosophyWhite noiseSirens<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3avi66DyO1r5wgcio1_500.png"/><br/><br/>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/22126730076https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/22126730076Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:08:30 +0200DariaSense of place<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m31jbw7eeL1r5wgcio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Somewhere in the Netherlands.</p>https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/21784223994https://generalimpressions.tumblr.com/post/21784223994Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:07:00 +0200Bert and ErnieStreet view