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Looks so cool and composed. Has no idea there’s a feather...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:50:24 -0700

Looks so cool and composed. Has no idea there’s a feather out of place.

Looks like it’s about to start conducting an orchestra.

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:47:52 -0700

Looks like it’s about to start conducting an orchestra.

kerfluffle: Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:19:39 -0700

kerfluffle:

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. —Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye

theparisreview: Stills from Erró’s Mecamorphosis.

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:14:36 -0700

theparisreview:

Stills from Erró’s Mecamorphosis.

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:08:51 -0700

citylightsbooks: “…the love that consists in this: that two...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:04:40 -0700

citylightsbooks:

“…the love that consists in this: that two solitudes protect and border and greet each other.”

I think this book should be handed out to high school students along with free condoms and pamphlets on road safety. I think this book should be handed out to grown adults along with free condoms and pamphlets on road safety. —Recommended by Elaine Kahn, City Lights Books

susanandherbooks: Favourite Covers Friday - The Old Man and the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:16 -0700

susanandherbooks:

Favourite Covers Friday - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

For previous Favourite Covers see here: http://susanandherbooks.tumblr.com/tagged/Favourite%20Covers%20Friday

Which is your favourite?

"I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent."

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:57:10 -0700

“I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches.
A heart is to be spent.”

- Stephen Dunn, Sixty (via arpeggia)

kerfluffle: I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:52:31 -0700

kerfluffle:

I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ―Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea

"I want to read only what I’ll want to reread—the definition of a book worth reading once."

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:49:07 -0700

““I want to read only what I’ll want to reread—the definition of a book worth reading once.””

- Susan Sontag (via theparisreview)

exhibition-ism: The website worth1000 has exhibited some weird...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:36:24 -0700

exhibition-ism:

The website worth1000 has exhibited some weird photographs of celebrities re-imagined as figures in famed renaissance paintings.

slowartday: Will Barnet

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:29:49 -0700

slowartday:

Will Barnet

exhibition-ism: David Laferriere has been drawing illustrations...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:27:55 -0700

exhibition-ism:

David Laferriere has been drawing illustrations on his children’s sandwich bags since 2008 and photographs almost every single one which can be viewed here on flickr .

"Reinterpreting myths, fairy tales, and folk tales is way more than a cottage industry—a castle..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:26:49 -0700

“Reinterpreting myths, fairy tales, and folk tales is way more than a cottage industry—a castle industry?—in publishing these days. From literary fiction (The Tiger’s Wife) to YA (Robin McKinley’s books, Runemarks) to graphic novels (the Fable series, The Sigh) to humor (Gods Behaving Badly), authors are picking up and reimagining bits and pieces from millennia of human story-telling. This is, of course, not entirely new; as long as there have been stories there have been reinterpretations of them. But the purposefulness and the politics do seem to have shifted in interesting ways over the past several decades, as feminist and LGBT/queer authors rethink these stories for a new world.”

- Reimagining Folk and Fairy Tales (with Kink, Joy, Nudity)

Feminist and Queer interpretations of fairy tales are some of my favourite books, I’d recommend The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue.

If you have any more recommendations for me please leave them in my ask :)

slowartday: We love this amorphous chair by Charlotte...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:23:52 -0700

slowartday:

We love this amorphous chair by Charlotte Kingsnorth. Check out Slow Art Day’s Facebook for more interesting sculptures like this every day.

susanandherbooks: Favourite Covers Wednesday- James and the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:03:48 -0700

susanandherbooks:

Favourite Covers Wednesday- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Which is your favourite?

scinerds: Iridescence With My Tea As a cup of tea was...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:35:30 -0700

scinerds:

Iridescence With My Tea

As a cup of tea was steeping one morning in my sun-filled kitchen, I noticed the colorful patterns shown here.

Sunlight scattered through the steamy mist just above the surface of the hot tea, produced an iridescent mix. The similarly sized lipids (perhaps 0.01 mm in diameter) on the surface of the tea deflect sunlight in such a way to produce the pastel colors.

Color intensity results from minuscule variations in the size of the droplets. Photo taken on April 1, 2012. — Photographer: Hans Juergen Heyen // Summary Authors: Hans Juergen Heyen; Jim Foster

It’s fun to know we can science even when doing something as simple as drinking tea. Strangely satisfying :)

This reminds me of an NPR story I read recently:

The Wonderful World Of Whisky Art

… but no photos of falling petals. Not as easy to get as...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:44:57 -0700

… but no photos of falling petals. Not as easy to get as you might imagine. Hmph.

kumako365jp: sakura at random Again, lovely photos …

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:41:24 -0700

kumako365jp:

sakura at random

Again, lovely photos …

Double the embarrassment: Valentine’s Day was last month,...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:05:30 -0700

Double the embarrassment: Valentine’s Day was last month, and even I know it’s DIY not DYI.