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Film
fromInverse
1 day ago

40 Years Ago, The Best Post-Apocalyptic Movie You've Never Seen Confounded Audiences

A solitary scientist's apocalypse shifts from grim survival fantasies to tense interpersonal dynamics and competing desires, emphasizing human connection over typical violent tropes.
fromstupidDOPE | Est. 2008
2 days ago

Lee Madgwick's Surreal Structures Capture the Beauty and Unease of Isolation | stupidDOPE | Est. 2008

Under skies heavy with storm-gray clouds, the architectural ruins in Lee Madgwick's paintings seem to exist somewhere between reality and imagination. His works are not just landscapes but psychological portraits-of solitude, fragility, and the strange poetry found in decay. With a style that merges surrealism and realism in equal measure, Madgwick transforms the familiar English countryside into a dreamlike world that's quietly charged with tension.
Arts
#travel
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

I studied abroad in London to meet new people. I fell in love with my own company instead.

As a lifelong proponent of close friends and tight circles, I saw this as my opportunity to step outside my comfort zone and meet new people, whether that was in my Shakespeare class or at random cafés around the city. I'd lived in the Midwestern suburbs my whole life before moving to Syracuse (a place that didn't feel much different) for school. So, in London, I was looking forward to making friends in a new kind of cityscape.
Travel
Bicycling
fromBikeMag
2 weeks ago

How One Rider Filmed the Most Inspiring MTB Footage

Self-shot mountain bike films showcase artistic vision, self-reliance, creativity, and the solitary beauty of remote mountain spaces.
#loneliness
fromBig Think
2 weeks ago
Mental health

So you spend a lot of time alone. Here's why that's not a bad thing.

Negative effects stem from people's response to being alone, and reframing solitude as opportunity improves creativity, well-being, and relationships.
fromNew York Post
6 months ago
Mental health

Psychologist reveals 3 major benefits of being alone - despite the stigma

Loneliness is a serious public health issue, but solitude can be beneficial and linked to positive outcomes.
Mental health
fromNew York Post
6 months ago

Psychologist reveals 3 major benefits of being alone - despite the stigma

Loneliness is a serious public health issue, but solitude can be beneficial and linked to positive outcomes.
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Living in a Material World

I've also been reading more. Actual books, that is. And buying way too many. But there is something to looking at those piles stacked around the rooms of my house. All that knowledge and history and art right there at my fingertips. And recently I picked up a magazine, a physical, paper magazine, and have occasionally again started sitting with a newspaper in the mornings. There's something about spreading it out on a table with a nice cup of coffee. Oh, the solitude...
Music
fromBoston Condos For Sale Ford Realty
1 month ago

Condo Owner Celebrates Her 100th Birthday Boston Condos For Sale Ford Realty

She set a match to the candle wick. It casts a circular glow in the room. The glasses sparkle, the silver cutlery glimmers. Everything is in its place, but she can't help straightening a fork, adjusting a champagne flute. Her stomach flutters with a year's-worth of expectation. she glance in the mirror, its tarnish softened by the light, How many years? She can't believe 100. She takes her seat at the head of the table. "Is everybody here?" "Then let's begin." She says. She raises her champagne glass to the empty room.
Real estate
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Malibu Announces Debut Album Vanities, Shares New Song

The sea brought small treasures back to the shore that The Girl scours every day. She finds little things buried in the wet sand, she fills her pockets with them and walks back home. She lays the little treasures around the house. She wanders around, from one room to the other ; one is dark and cold. The AC works but the light doesn't when she flicks the switch.
Writing
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

To write his solo debut, Cafe Tacvba's Meme del Real first had to surrender

"The summer rain in Mexico City has been driving Meme del Real crazy. "This season of permanent torrential downpour gets to a point where you're like, ' Enough,' he says with a sigh. "There's people who really enjoy it, but I'm done. It's too much introspection to be in here all day, to not be able to go outside. It forces you to try other things, to find a conversation within that rather than a resistance."
Music
Mindfulness
fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

This bestselling author finds his greatest escape in solitudeand you can too

Extended silence and monastic solitude offer a profound, accessible refuge from modern noise, fostering clarity, presence, and inner peace.
Writing
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

"Missing Sheep," by Anne Carson

A narrator secretly longs for a departing loved one, struggles with grief and creative doubt, and wanders through solitude and memory to cope.
Exercise
fromDurham Herald Sun
2 months ago

Raleigh teen nearly quit swimming. Next year, she'll swim the English Channel

Lorelei Schmidt thrives in open water swimming despite the challenges, embracing solitude and pushing through physical and mental barriers.
fromwww.nytimes.com
2 months ago

Opinion | The Paris Metro Smell That Transports Me

The smell of the Paris Metro is a blend of sweet, rubbery, and industrial, evoking memories of solitude and independence experienced during a summer in the city.
Paris food
Digital life
fromThe New Yorker
3 months ago

"The Chartreuse," by Mona Awad

A woman anxiously awaits the delivery of a dress, which has faced several delays and ultimately leads her to reflect and take a walk by the ocean.
#introspection
fromPitchfork
3 months ago
Music

$ilkMoney: WHO WATERS THE WILTING GIVING TREE ONCE THE LEAVES DRY UP AND FRUITS NO LONGER BEAR?

fromIndependent
6 months ago
Travel

Saoirse Hanley: To travel bareback is now a way of taking public transport much more mindfully - here's what it taught me

fromPitchfork
3 months ago
Music

$ilkMoney: WHO WATERS THE WILTING GIVING TREE ONCE THE LEAVES DRY UP AND FRUITS NO LONGER BEAR?

fromIndependent
6 months ago
Travel

Saoirse Hanley: To travel bareback is now a way of taking public transport much more mindfully - here's what it taught me

Science
fromNature
3 months ago

Wherever we go in this system, there we are

The desire to escape a mundane life leads to yearning for exploration beyond Earth.
from48 hills
4 months ago

Screen Grabs: 'White With Fear' cashes out lucrative Caucasian terror complex - 48 hills

‘Living alone can be great, especially if the only alternative is to play the weaker sex to someone who needs to feel superior.’
Independent films
London music
fromJuxtapoz
5 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Preview: Time Alone by Han Ji Min @ JD Malat Gallery, London

Han Ji Min's exhibition 'Time Alone' invites audiences to explore the emotional depth found in solitude and everyday moments through her unique visual language.
Pets
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Tim Dowling: if I wasn't so busy doing nothing, I could be having fun

The experience of sudden solitude forces reflection on time management and personal choices.
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