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DSC_9889 by Marc Liu on Flickr.

#sniff sniff

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#nights of cabiria #federico fellini #1957 #film #reblogs

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St. Vincent, "Cruel" live acoustic in Dallas, TX

#st. vincent #cruel #music video

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audrey marnay by paolo roversi

#photography #paolo roversi

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Cindy Sherman, Untitled 316, 1995 (Metro Pictures Gallery)

Jay Bernstein writes:

In Untitled 316, which is a doll face in close-up, turning the whole doll thereby into a mask, Sherman potently captures this duality within the mask by providing a layering of masks, revealing below a smooth outer surface (mask) another mask, scarred, pitted, ravaged — the inner mask the truth of the outer mask, the layers of masking replicating the history of the mask. The ravaged mask animates the smooth surface mask, making the latter the repudiation of the former. And, of course, the eyes of this doll are human eyes, no longer frightened or stiffened — it is too late for that — but unutterably sad. Kafka eyes.

#cindy sherman #untitled 316 #doll #art

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Tsutomi Nihei

blame, 1998

#manga #Japan #Tsutomi Nihei #blame #cyberpunk #Black and White #1990s

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Monstrum is an awesome Danish playground design firm that creates some seriously awesome playgrounds”

MONSTRUM believes that playground design should be a reflection of the world surrounding us. We see the world as a place full of colour. We meet boys that like pink and girls that likes trees, so why only play on a monky frame and a sandbox, when you can play in a moon crater or a submarine or a giant spider or an enormous snail or a Trojans horse or a rocket or an ant or a princess castle. The fantasy is infinite.  The visual effect can endulge from a far, a tall slide, a massive tower or a wave to play on can draw kids in from the street.  As artists and designers and through our experience with building theatrical set-design at numerous theaters in Copenhagen, we have the knowledge to combine elements where not only physical activities and play evolve, but also with a visual story that creates a space where fantacy  thrives.

[via Super Punch]

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#cats #ennui #existentialism #video

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Kittens Texting

#kittens #texting #reblogs

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The Alabama Shakes, "Boys and Girls"

#alabama shakes #boys and girls #music video

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A long-lost medieval cookbook, containing recipes for hedgehogs, blackbirds and even unicorns, has been discovered at the British Library. Professor Brian Trump of the British Medieval Cookbook Project described the find as near-miraculous. "We've been hunting for this book for years. The moment I first set my eyes on it was spine-tingling."

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you were last seen walking through a field of pianos. no. a museum of mouths. in the kitchen of a bustling restaurant, cracking eggs and releasing doves. no. eating glow worms and waltzing past my bedroom. last seen riding the subway, literally, straddling its metal back, clutching electrical cables as reins. you were wearing a dress made out of envelopes and stamps, this was how you travelled. i was the mannequin in the storefront window you could have sworn moved. the library card in the book you were reading until that dog trotted up and licked your face. the cookie with two fortunes. the one jamming herself through the paper shredder, afraid to talk to you. the beggar. hat outstretched bumming for more minutes. the phone number on the bathroom stall with no agenda other than a good time. the good time is a picnic on water, or a movie theatre that only plays your childhood home videos and no one hushes when you talk through them. when you play my videos i throw milk duds at the screen during the scenes i watch myself letting you go — lost to the other side of an elevator — your face switching to someone else’s with the swish of a geisha’s fan. my father could have been a travelling salesman. i could have been born on any doorstep. there are 2,469,501 cities in this world, and a lot of doorsteps. meet me on the boardwalk. i’ll be sure to wear my eyes. do not forget your face. i could never.

new york craigslist > personals > missed connections

#reblogs #craigslist #missed connections #new york #love

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Nicolas Jaar to release a cube of music. 

Next month, Nicolas Jaar’s record label and culture house Clown & Sunset Aesthetics will issue a compilation called Don’t Break My Love. (It takes its name from a Jaar track.) The label sampler will not be available on vinyl, compact disc, or cassette, but rather in the form of an aluminum cube that fits in the palm of your hand. They’re calling it The Prism

defines The Revolution of Ideas

#nicolas jaar #don't break my love #the prism #music

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R.B. Kitaj, The Architects (1979)

#R.B. Kitaj #The Architects #painting #colin st. john wilson #mj long

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This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it…

 italo calvino, if on a winter’s night a traveler

#italo calvino #photography #winter #zero moments

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I, I need you But it’s not normal If I refuse To be by myself 

– Mates of State

#mates of state #reblogs #music

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noonewould:

#see?