Erikc Perez-Perez

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Chicago photographer.

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In an interview, the professional rock climber Alex Honnold was given a piece of paper and asked to draw the trajectory of his career. This is what he drew:

Beginning at the age of 18 when he was living out of a van and climbing all over the Western U.S., for ten to eleven years, “it was kind of like nothing,” Honnold said, drawing a flat line along... See more

Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Rilke’s Swan, the Antidote to Exhaustion, an Incognito Musician, a Career-Defining Realization, a Really Fundamental Idea, and Different People in Different Situations

Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else.

Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

This world is intricately stitched together, boys. Every thread we pull, we know not how it affects the design of things. We’re but children on this earth, pulling bolts out of the Ferris wheel thinking ourselves to be gods.

— Train Dreams

I’m pushing myself against the trends of this culture and the times we’re living in.

On one hand, science is revealing an insane sublimity in this world. We now understand the first few minutes of the universe and the Big Bang; they’ve been able to photograph a black hole; we understand that life originated from the explosion of stars. All of these

"I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.” — Anthony Bourdain

“The trouble with market research is people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think, and they don’t do what they say.” (David Ogilvy)

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Tarkovsky’s thoughts on art. From the documentary “Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the Cinema“ (1983). Talking in regards to his film Andrei Rublev (1966) #andreitarkovsky

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The relationship between Vincent van Gogh and his younger brother Theo van Gogh was one of the most important bonds in Vincent’s life. Theo worked as an art dealer in Paris and provided Vincent with steady financial support for most of his adult life. Because Vincent struggled to sell his paintings and often lived in... See more

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It’s hard to get really depressed until your dreams come true. Once your dreams come true and you realize you feel the same way you did before then you get a feeling of hopelessness."

-Rick Rubin