Advance8264 (via PeppermintChick) Newly discovered favourite thing: the art on vintage patterns. The vintage patterns flickr pool is providing me with hours of fascination. The colours! The accessories! The manically happy children! Love it.

Advance8264 (via PeppermintChick)

Newly discovered favourite thing: the art on vintage patterns. The vintage patterns flickr pool is providing me with hours of fascination. The colours! The accessories! The manically happy children! Love it.

blueroom-writing on the wall (via lauren.rabbit) “writing on the wall reads- Scientists have discovered 12 different kinds of quarks which are distinguished by : 6 flavors, 3 colors, 3 anti-colors, and varying degrees of strangeness. “

blueroom-writing on the wall (via lauren.rabbit)

“writing on the wall reads-
Scientists have discovered 12 different kinds of quarks which are distinguished by :
6 flavors,
3 colors,
3 anti-colors,
and
varying degrees of strangeness. “

“Get a radio or a phonograph capable of the most extreme loudness possible, and sit down and listen to a performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony or Schubert’s C-Major Symphony. But I don’t mean just sit down and listen. I mean this: Turn it on as loud as you can get it. Then get down on the floor and jam your ear as close into the loudspeaker as you can get it and stay there, breathing as lightly as possible, and not moving, and neither eating nor smoking nor drinking. Concentrate everything you can into your hearing and into your body. You won’t hear it nicely. If it hurts you, be glad of it. As near as you will ever get, you are inside the music; not only inside it, you are it; your body is no longer your shape and substance, it is the shape and substance of the music.

Is what you hear pretty? or beautiful? or legal? or acceptable in polite or any other society? It is beyond any calculation savage and dangerous and murderous to all equilibrium in human life as human life is; and nothing can equal the rape it does on all that death; nothing except anything, anything in existence or dream, perceived anywhere remotely toward its true dimension.”
—James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
benjaminhilts: “The Ghost of Bernadette Soubirous” circa 1890, by an unknown photographer. (via) (via WurzelStock™) This picture is on my giant collage wall. I’m fascinated by the spiritualism movement.

benjaminhilts:

“The Ghost of Bernadette Soubirous” circa 1890, by an unknown photographer. (via) (via WurzelStock™)

This picture is on my giant collage wall. I’m fascinated by the spiritualism movement.

Criterion for a best friend: call unsolicited in the middle of the night to read me philosophy while I lie in an unfamiliar bed with what are probably stolen-from-hospital pillows over my face. Demand no response because you know me well, well enough to recognize when I have fallen into one of my chasms of nighttime silence.
(via lauren.rabbit)
(via lauren.rabbit)
benhasten: The Ring Toss by Clarence Hudson White from the Library of Congress exhibition When They Were Young remembered thanks to lifeonholidae

benhasten:

The Ring Toss by Clarence Hudson White

from the Library of Congress exhibition When They Were Young

remembered thanks to lifeonholidae

“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes’ chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”

—Flann O’Brien, the first paragraph of At Swim-Two-Birds
(via poursoi)
(via poursoi)

To John Ashbery

To John Ashbery
Frank O’Hara

I can’t believe there’s not
another world where we will sit
and read new poems to each other
high on a mountain in the wind.
You can be Tu Fu, I’ll be Po Chu-i
and the Monkey Lady’ll be in the moon,
smiling at our ill-fitting heads
as we watch snow settle on a twig.
Or shall we be really gone? this
is not the grass I saw in my youth!
and if the moon, when it rises
tonight, is empty —a bad sign,
meaning ‘You go, like the blossoms.’

Starting Right with Bees (via Woolgathersome) What book does this come from and why on earth are they illustrating how to de-wing a poor bee?

Starting Right with Bees (via Woolgathersome)

What book does this come from and why on earth are they illustrating how to de-wing a poor bee?

Tarkovsky3 (via Woolgathersome) “Polaroids taken by Tarkovsky - in a book just published by Thames & Hudson called Instant Light.”

Tarkovsky3 (via Woolgathersome)

“Polaroids taken by Tarkovsky - in a book just published by Thames & Hudson called Instant Light.”

intweetion: locusta:> energyface:> mollylambert: Truly Awesome: Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla’s lab

intweetion:

locusta:> energyface:> mollylambert: Truly Awesome: Mark Twain in Nikola Tesla’s lab
Antoine Doinel (via Indie Wench) Still of young Jean-Pierre Leaud from Truffaut’s Les Quatre Cents Coups, one of my favourite movies ever. See it now if you haven’t already.

Antoine Doinel (via Indie Wench)

Still of young Jean-Pierre Leaud from Truffaut’s Les Quatre Cents Coups, one of my favourite movies ever. See it now if you haven’t already.