#anniversaryoftheweek
— Janis Joplin, Get It While You Can
On this day in the year 1971, three months after her death, Janis Joplin’s album (fourth overall) Pearl was released.
What’s your favorite song on this album?
Tag: art
Song of the Week, #3
— Fatoumata Diawara – Nsera feat. Damon Albarn
Destination. Amazing song and a visually stunning video.
What’s your song of the week?
Sirens
by Irina Tall (Novikova)
We are delighted to share our first artist contribution! Read more about the illustrator below where you can also find links to follow her work.
Enjoy the art and let us know what it inspires in you.
Why wonder?
WONDER, noun
- a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable, or unfamiliar
verb
- desire to know something; feel curious; feel doubt; feel admiration and amazement; marvel; feel surprise
Source: Google by Oxford Languages.
We said it and we believe it. For us, wonder is at the root, the core of it all, the Amazine community and this whole project as much as life itself. It is an attitude that can, bit by bit, make, is making and has already made this world, this humanity a bit less indifferent, a bit more sensible, a bit sweeter in all its bitterness. It is interconnected with feelings of joy, love, curiosity, openness, as well as with values of inclusivity, empathy and respect towards all beings. It is the perspective we chose and will hopefully keep choosing with you by our side. But why wonder?
Read More »Call For Submissions
This is your community, too. So, we cordially invite you to send us your submissions, in form of think pieces, social and cultural commentaries, all kinds of reviews and recommendations, portraits, prose, poetry, essays, travelogues and almost anything else. If you don’t express yourself with words, no worries, send us your collages, drawings, photos, videos …
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The Amazine community’s manifesto of sorts.
The world can be a weird, bittersweet place, so full of pain and so full of beauty. Humanity is weirder still, capable of such atrocities and foolishness, ignorance and hypocrisy, as well as amazing scientific discoveries and works of art that take our breath away, even more, humanity is capable of profound connection, companionship and joy. It aches to be alive, but that ache is sweet sometimes, isn’t it? You know the clichés: the flowers grow in dirt, the earth longs for rain, there is no butterfly without a transformation, no light without the dark, the sky excels its art only with the setting of the sun and the time right before the sunrise is the gloomiest.
We don’t deny any of it. We are deciding to embrace it all and by that open our eyes, minds, hearts and spirits for the many wonders, joys, beauties, uncertainties and paradoxes of this world. Be in search of the crack Cohen sang about. Because we can be disappointed by the world as we know it, even expect it to end pretty soon, and still keep on creating the one we want to live in. Push one word, thought, question, song, scene, story, hug and laugh at a time for the world that would actually be worth fighting for.
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