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3 days ago · Irony (noun): A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. Irony is a versatile concept that generally refers to a contrast between expectation and reality, often with humorous or poignant effects.
2 days ago · It has illuminated how challenging that can really be for any one of us when we really choose to consciously be in that space. We are constantly surrounded by means to take us out of the Now and into the There, wherever ‘there’ is. The irony, I realized, is that even those distractions are calling us back into the Now in its own way.
3 days ago · When Christopher Reeve was thrown from a horse during an equestrian event in Virginia in 1995, resulting in the “Superman” actor becoming paralyzed from the neck down, the immense irony was ...
3 days ago · The last decade of Reeve’s life is easily one of Hollywood’s saddest tales, no doubt enhanced by the cruel irony of seeing the man who had once perfectly and unequivocally embodied Superman live out last years, on the surface at least, as anything but. The fateful horse-riding accident in the spring of 1995 that left him paralyzed from the ...
2 days ago · The Christopher Ward Desk Diver offers all the timekeeping a modern office drone requires. The bezel replaces the ubiquitous numerals and hash marks with more snarky reminders of the modern era.
2 days ago · Other characteristics are a hard-nosed scepticism or irony, the use of “modern” vocabulary - not infrequently to shock effect– borrowed from specialized domains such as engineering (think of Fernando Pessoa’s verses by his heteronym Álvaro de Campos) or medicine (think of the opening verses of T.S. Eliot’s 1917 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock), techniques of association or what Pound called “planes in relation” rather than grammatical logic, and inserted citations.
3 days ago · I think it’s really fun, and would make a great addition to my Spinnaker x Seconde/Seconde/ 50 Phantoms and Timex x Seconde/Seconde/ Loser watch mini-collection.. Romaric André, the mastermind behind seconde/seconde/, shared his thoughts on the collaboration: “The irony is, I qualify as a desk diver myself…
