Trenchant as hell

"Bury me when I die beneath a wine barrel in a tavern. With luck the cask will leak."

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:43:00 +0800

“Bury me when I die
beneath a wine barrel
in a tavern.
With luck
the cask will leak.”

- death poem of Moriya Sen’an, who died in 1838

from Japanese Death Poems, edited by Yoel Hoffmann

(via awritersruminations)

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:22:01 +0800

"Hey, handsome stranger Saw your pic in the archives Too bad you’re dead now"

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:47:34 +0800

“Hey, handsome stranger
Saw your pic in the archives
Too bad you’re dead now”

- by Rebecca Goldman The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies: Archival Haiku 2011

via plenilune (via redheadbouquet)

artistandstudio: Cafe du Dome, Paris, 1920s. (via) One reason...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:33:05 +0800

artistandstudio:

Cafe du Dome, Paris, 1920s. (via)

One reason for the influx of artists to Paris at that time was that it was ridiculously affordable, especially for Americans. According to James Hinkle, “The exchange rate for French francs was about twenty-five francs to the dollar. One dollar had approximately forty times its present purchasing power. Hemingway paid 250 francs a month (about ten dollars) for his Paris apartment…For a franc, you could buy breakfast of a brioche and coffee or a drink at a first-class bar. A full dinner with wine at a decent restaurant could be had for five francs—about a quarter. e.e. cummings lived in Paris and traveled for two years on $1,000. Faulkner managed for several months on a dollar a day.” (via)

mxney: architecture is art

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:25:31 +0800

mxney:

architecture is art

Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:16:17 +0800

Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal:

transawareness:

The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.

Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.

Sign It.

Anxiety-Ridden Man Rightly Ashamed Of Every Single Thing He Does | The Onion

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:43:45 +0800

Anxiety-Ridden Man Rightly Ashamed Of Every Single Thing He Does | The Onion:

‘We Are All Silently Judging Him At Every Moment, Just As He Suspects,’ Acquaintances Say

OAKLAND, CA—Friends and colleagues of copywriter Timothy Gibula confirmed Wednesday that the anxiety-ridden 36-year-old is right to feel ashamed of every single thing he does, considering that all his acquaintances are, exactly as he fears, actively judging him at all times.

Validating every feeling of remorse and social anxiety the man has ever felt, sources close to Gibula told reporters his perpetual anguish over his words and actions could not be more justified, as all of his missteps—ranging from minor lapses of politeness to his overall slightly disappointing career trajectory—are immediately perceived by those around him as evidence of his inadequacy as a human being.

“Tim’s the kind of guy who is forever second-guessing his behavior, as if the people in his life are constantly scrutinizing every single move he makes, and he’s completely correct about that—we are,” said Paula Ramirez, a coworker who admitted she can barely look at Gibula without a medley of his most embarrassing moments replaying in her head. “Anytime he’s been petrified at the thought of social interaction or obsessively reexamined something he’s said, his fears have been entirely reasonable, given our nonstop monitoring of his behavior.”

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Thu, 31 May 2012 19:36:55 +0800

"I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an..."

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:23:00 +0800

“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”

- Federico Fellini (via lokisilvertongue)

Intelligent, Condescending Life Discovered In Distant Galaxy | The Onion

Thu, 31 May 2012 19:03:27 +0800

Intelligent, Condescending Life Discovered In Distant Galaxy | The Onion:

HOUSTON—Marking a momentous leap forward in humankind’s understanding of the universe, NASA scientists announced today they had received a radio transmission confirming the existence of intelligent, extremely condescending life in a galaxy nearly 13.8 billion light-years away.

According to officials at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, the message arrived several days after researchers sent a signal to the recently discovered URFy-32924369 galaxy. Members of a highly arrogant alien species responded, saying it was “nice to finally hear from [our] quaint planet” and that it “certainly took [humanity] long enough.”

The extraterrestrials explained they had intercepted NASA’s transmission using their “far superior technology,” because they did not want to “wait the intervening billions of years to receive a simple message from a species working within the laughable constraints of the speed of light.”

The image at the Australian Google Search page for May 28th...

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:38:00 +0800

The image at the Australian Google Search page for May 28th 2012: Ruby Payne-Scott’s 100th birthday

Ruby Payne-Scott (also known as Ruby Hall) (1912-1981)

Born in Grafton in 1912, Payne-Scott later moved to Sydney, where, in her 20s, she completed a Bachelor of Science in Physics, a Master of Science, and a Diploma of Education at University of Sydney.

From her Wikipedia entry:

“One of the more outstanding physicists that Australia has ever produced and one of the first people in the world to consider the possibility of radio astronomy, and thereby responsible for what is now a fundamental part of the modern lexicon of science, she was often the only woman in her classes at the University of Sydney.

Her career arguably reached its zenith while working for the Australian government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (then called CSIR, now known as CSIRO) […]. Some of her fundamental contributions to solar radio astronomy came at the end of this period. She is the discoverer of Type I and Type III bursts and participated in the recognition of Type II and IV bursts. Payne-Scott played a major role in the first-ever radio astronomical interferometer observation from 26 January 1946, when the sea-cliff interferometer was used to determine the position and angular size of a solar burst. […]

During World War II, she was engaged in top secret work investigating radar. She was the expert on the detection of aircraft using PPI (Plan Position Indicator) displays. She was also at the time a member of the Communist Party and an early advocate for women’s rights. […]”

Payne-Scott married Bill Holman Hall in 1944, but was forced to keep the marriage a secret for several years — married women were forbidden by law to hold permanent positions in public service at that time. Maternity leave was also yet to be introduced, and in 1951, some time after losing her permanent position at CSIRO due to her marital status, Payne-Scott resigned. She had her son Peter, the first of two children, several months later.

Screen Tests for Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:22:52 +0800

Screen Tests for Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

theballetblog: Following this dream hasn’t been easy. Along the...

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:15:00 +0800

theballetblog:

Following this dream hasn’t been easy. Along the way, Michaela has had to battle racism within the ballet world. “When I was eight, I was cast to play Marie in The Nutcracker, and I prepared hard for it. But right before the show, I was told that someone else would be dancing the part because ‘people aren’t ready for a black Marie,’ ” she recalls. She seriously considered quitting ballet until she got the chance to see black dancer Heidi Cruz perform with The Pennsylvania Ballet. “I was like, Wow, she’s amazing! She inspired me to keep dancing,” Michaela says.

Read Michaela’s heartbreaking and inspiring story

vvolare: by Jpdodd

Mon, 28 May 2012 00:40:46 +0800

vvolare:

by Jpdodd

Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2006

Sun, 27 May 2012 23:34:12 +0800

Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2006

"Your head’s like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was...."

Sun, 27 May 2012 23:11:23 +0800

“Your head’s like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune’s all we are.”

- Grant Morrison, The Invisibles Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution

Where's Walden: just like Where's Waldo except it's just a man standing alone in the woods

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:37:22 +0800

pale-fire:

actinoutloud:

#the challenge is finding himself

"I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When..."

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:16:36 +0800

“I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.”

- Stephen Dunn, Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry

byroglyphics: I have a new print ‘Pleiades’ available from Knee...

Sun, 27 May 2012 21:52:01 +0800

byroglyphics:

I have a new print ‘Pleiades’ available from Knee Deep in Sleep.

Edition of 50 -signed, embossed and supplied with a certificate of authenticity.

Printed on Hahnemühle PhotoRag 310gsm paper. 59 x 42 cm

Please click on the link or the image for further information. http://bit.ly/tLtw0H

hazor: Revolver Camera Front view of a Colt 38 with built-in...

Sun, 27 May 2012 21:31:00 +0800

hazor:

Revolver Camera

Front view of a Colt 38 with built-in camera that automatically takes pictures when the trigger is pulled. Left a series of six images, taken with the gun camera. New York, 1938.