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Star map, 1911.
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
Diverging from all the turbulence in Russia, here’s a piece by the late Russian artist Oleg Vassiliev, titled Twilight I.
“To me, the visible and tangible world is more a thing of remembrance than of perception of reality.”
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In lieu of the whole Mercury in Retrograde business, I present a vintage geographical and astronomical clock poster.
John Phillips Emslie, circa 1840.
“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
Frank Zappa
“The head of a company survived 9/11 because
His son started kindergarten.Another fellow was alive because it was
His turn to bring donuts.One woman was late because her
Alarm clock didn’t go off in time.One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike
Because of an auto accident.One of them
Missed his bus.One spilled food on her clothes and had to take
Time to change.One’s
Car wouldn’t start.One couldn’t
Get a taxi.The one that struck me was the man
Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning,
Took the various means to get to work but before.
He got there, he developed a blister on his foot.
He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.
That is why he is alive today..Now when I am
Stuck in traffic,
Miss an elevator,
Turn back to answer a ringing telephone…
All the little things that annoy me,
I think to myself,This is exactly where
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I’m meant to be
At this very moment
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Snowy night in Brooklyn. Thinking of places I’d rather be.
Gansu, China
Vaadhoo Island, Maldives
Whitehaven Beach, Australia
Grand Canyon, Arizona
Salar de Uyuni, Boliva
New year, new adventures.
“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.”
Rolling Stone pays tribute to Nelson Mandela via tweets of musicians.
Rest easy to a man that fought the good fight.
Photographer Jimmy Nelson spent 3 years photographing tribes that have remained untouched by time. In a series titled ‘Before They Pass Away’ exhibits a beautifully captured and eye opening documentary. Makes you wonder what could’ve been had technology not progressed.
I wanted to witness their time-honoured traditions, join in their rituals and discover how the rest of the world is threatening to change their way of life forever. Most importantly, I wanted to create an ambitious aesthetic photographic document that would stand the test of time. A body of work that would be an irreplaceable ethnographic record of a fast disappearing world.
-Jimmy Nelson
See the whole series at Before They Pass Away.
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I found this beautiful photo series Strangers by photographer Shane Connaughton. There’s something so quiet and serene about them, the way they’re grainy and ambiguous in subject. The series is shot in a photo journalistic way, but leans more towards conceptual and abstract; less focused on subject and more so on the comprehensiveness of daily life. That is exactly what makes it unique-it’s journalism and art at the same time, which is not an easy feat.
See more beautiful images at Connaughton’s Flickr.
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