The simple things, the true things, the silent men who do things.
Priest, Valamo Monastery, Karelia, Russia by Swedish National Heritage Board.
“Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return”
— Boileau
Street artist Blu still rocks. Ridiculous and playful, but very affective (with an “a” not an “e”). Make sure you watch the ending.
Menomena - Evil Bee
“Oh, to be a machine…”
Can we talk about how amazing this video is? You’ll have to watch this a few times. Notice that feeling welling up inside you. This is what happens when artists take on the loftiest themes and absolutely succeed. Enjoy.
Give us Men!
Strong and stalwart ones;
Men whom highest hope inspires,
Men whom purest honor fires,
Men who trample self beneath them,
Men who make their country wreath them
As her noble sons,
Worthy of their sires;
Men who never shame their mothers,
Men who never fail their brothers,
True, however false are others:
Give us Men-I say again,
Give us Men!
-Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Only one stanza. See the whole post here.
“It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter’s, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.”
— Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Ernest Hemingway, kicking a can. Looking rather nimble in that flannel and vest. (photo via kottke)
“Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.”
Normally more photos would be posted here here but you are better off just going to the art of manliness, where they have put together “inspirational posters” using pictures of Hemingway and his own quotes. A favorite might be “Intuition.”
