And when it was all over, the king and his retainers burst out laughing.
![Drawing by Emma McNally
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Drawing by Emma McNally
YOU MUST BE LOOKING FOR NATURAL BEAUTY IN EPHEMERAL FORMS BECAUSE YOU ARE ON THIN ICE
Song: “Give Up the Ghost” - Radiohead
Image: Brian Jungen’s Cetology (2002); currently installed at the Peabody Essex Museum as part of the show “Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art”
Source: SoundCloud / josuedric
I thought of it as making these little Chinese boxes, with intricate inlay…I loved that. It’s like an artist known for his sculptures all made with found objects glued together with human bodily fluid, and then he’d photograph them, and the photographs would be burned and the ashes would be turned into a painting. But did you know he also made neat little wooden boxes?
-Stephen Colbert, about his first segments for “The Daily Show”
[from How Many Stephen Colberts Are There?; The New York Times Magazine, 1.8.12]
![from “PLAYGROUND Harskamp/Reek”, a photo series by Jeroen Hofman
[via the New Shelton wet/dry]](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/ejectamenta/15401687095/1/tumblr_lxdxe44qtP1qzphjh)
from “PLAYGROUND Harskamp/Reek”, a photo series by Jeroen Hofman
[via the New Shelton wet/dry]
Thirty is really the most important age for women…They have to be started towards fame or a family by that time, and if they’re not, they’re done for. So you see it’s very necessary that I should crowd the next few years.
“Some girls like superheroes, some boys like princesses. So why do all the girls have to buy pink stuff?”
Good question, little friend. #OccupyToyStores?
[via curiositycounts]
Source: curiositycounts
![“Make Believe partakes of the nature of the magic ritual. We not only pretend to be what we are not, but by staging our pretense we strive to conjure and bring in to existence a new genuineness. The strange thing is that often this conjuring act succeeds, and we become what we pretend to be.”
- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms, 1955
[Image: Nick Cave’s soundsuits at The Fabric Museum and Workshop; Philadelphia, PA; December 2011]](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/ejectamenta/15117225291/1/tumblr_lx3xkfNFVF1qzphjh)
“Make Believe partakes of the nature of the magic ritual. We not only pretend to be what we are not, but by staging our pretense we strive to conjure and bring in to existence a new genuineness. The strange thing is that often this conjuring act succeeds, and we become what we pretend to be.”
- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms, 1955
[Image: Nick Cave’s soundsuits at The Fabric Museum and Workshop; Philadelphia, PA; December 2011]
Frull up fizz and unpop a few shortusians or shake a pale of sparkling ice, hear it swirl, happy girl!
The massive scale of Saturn, visualized relative to a map of the U.S. Plus, 5 visual ways to grasp the scale of the universe.
Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com
Feliz Navidad from Palm Springs! (Taken with instagram)
From Daniel Handler’s “Essential Break-Up Playlist”, inspired by his new book with Maira Kalman, Why We Broke Up.
[“Damage” - Yo La Tengo]
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![School of Visual Arts Collection. Designed by Frank Kirk in 1962 to announce the appointment of Dorothy Koppelman, Alice Neel, and May Stevens to the Fine Arts faculty.
[via Container List]](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/ejectamenta/14313595730/1/tumblr_lwb493LxoZ1qzphjh)
School of Visual Arts Collection. Designed by Frank Kirk in 1962 to announce the appointment of Dorothy Koppelman, Alice Neel, and May Stevens to the Fine Arts faculty.
[via Container List]
