The Velveteen Rabbit (via the snail and the cyclops)
alice under skies
(feathered-at-gmail for contact.)
Jul 26
Jul 21
Wataru Ito, an origami artist from Japan, has spent four years making this miniature city entirely out of paper. Now that he’s finished, he’s going to burn it down. Article and more photos here.
Jun 27
“‘Let’s talk of many things’ - E BarringtonThomas FW Cheshire, 1966, this reprint 1968. Designer and de-facer unknown.” (via letslookupandsmile)
Jun 25
“ In the late 1940’s, W.H. Auden became enamored of the idea that every writer’s mind is a household containing three personalities. T.S. Eliot’s, he wrote, included an archdeacon, an old peasant grandmother and a young boy who liked to play practical jokes.
Jun 20
“ …and I was left alone with the bad taste of nothing, lulled by the train cars that galloped past the sewer pipes, beaches, and boats of the Tagus, lulled by the river’s waves while my hands, as if praying, held the absence of your hips.
— The Natural Order of Things by Antonio Lobo Antunes, the end of one of the breathless-long sentences that I particularly liked
nuns (via superbomba)
Jun 19
http://seedmagazine.com/interactive/workbench/oliver_sacks/
For frequent Radiolab listeners/Oliver Sacks fans: Sacks’ workbench, complete with commentary. I want to meet this man.
Oliver Sacks is one of my heroes. I’ve been reading him since I was fourteen and remain awed and delighted and moved by his work—which isn’t something I can say for 95% of the other authors I was reading at the time. He’s genius.
Jun 18
fierce polar bear (via superbomba)
"I am still obsessed with creating false worlds, and will be until I die. Today I don’t line up spools of thread and chess pawns (with an occasional bishop or pawn sticking out) in the drawers of my chest, but I regret I don’t ."
— from ‘The Book of Disquiet’ by Bernardo Soares aka Fernando Pessoa
- Old woman with a chicken in her lap: I believe that people one day hopefully will understand as I do, all children and adults, how wonderful a little chicken can be. All chickens! That they're just not a little chicken in the barnyard to eat. No, that they have a special personality. May you all have the same joy that I have had, knowing a chicken. Mwah! *kisses chicken* My little soul-mate...
- --The Natural History of the Chicken (http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkxO91TLKVg)
Jun 15
(via adski_kafeteri)
May 15
» Untitled Document (virtual bookshelf?)
Click a spine. Be rewarded with a random plate from an old book. Still not as satisfying as browsing a real bookshelf* but reminds me of why I love the internet.
*we lost two customers this week to kindle & I am feeling very defensive of real life physical books.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
May 13
Source: unknown.
