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Kenneth Grahame (via invisiblestories)

kadrey:

Proof there is no God: egg on a stick.

wilwheaton:

laughterkey:

lizdexia:

ex-genius:

THIS SATANIC GODDAMN THING IS REAL AND I AM UNREASONABLY ANGRY ABOUT IT

seriously look at this awful thing

No.

No no no no no no no.

I’m sorry, if you’re too stupid to make eggs in a pan, you don’t get to have a horrible egg-dog on a wooden stick like it’s some kind of carnival food. This product is a crime against gastronomy, and I want to find and destroy each and every example of it.

There is literally nothing appetizing about this either. WHO JUST EATS A HUNK OF HOT COOKED EGG LIKE THAT. WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA.

Drew, I feel like you’d appreciate this. If you need me, I’ll be over here fighting my gag reflex.

I’m a Technology editor on Tumblr, and it istaking all of my self-control to not promote this in Tech, for the lulz.

evolutionists:

Akihito Takuma.

Lines of Flight.

nevver:

“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy” — Henry Miller

nevver:

“Thou shalt not be such a shit” — William S. Burroughs

Life in five seconds

(via showslow)

invisiblestories:

Paul Eluard & Man Ray, Facile (1935)

explore-blog:

Bucky Fuller

naocontepramamae:

Não tenho idade para ter feito nada importante durante o governo militar.
Ouvia falar dos “subversivos”, tive aula de Educação Moral e Cívica.
Uma vez, em 1968, fui no fusca do meu pai, buscar minha mãe no trabalho, no centro da cidade.
Havia uma passeata qualquer, quebra-quebra…não sei…

explore-blog:

Why are blue whales, the largest creatures to ever roam Earth, so big? 

Complement with this poetic paper animation about the afterlife of a whale. 

Astrud Gilberto - Canto De Ossanha (by Geepereet)

thereconstructionists:

Long before photography became “the people’s art,” Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) took a large-format camera to the streets to forge a new dialogue between the urban landscape and its inhabitants through her stark black-and-white photographs. Best-remembered for her Changing New York series — 307 evocative black-and-white portraits of the city’s architecture and urban design, taken between 1935 and 1939 — Abbott remains one of the most recognizable voices in the history of photography.

Her story is, in many ways, one of unlikely success. Raised by a divorced mother, Abbott left her Ohio home in 1918, at the age of twenty, and moved to New York’s Greenwich Village to study sculpture. There, “adopted” by anarchist Hippolyte Havel, Abbott moved into an apartment with several of the era’s celebrated thinkers — literary critic Malcolm Cowley, philosopher Kenneth Burke, and poet Djuna Barnes. The following year, she nearly lost her life to the deadly “Spanish flu” pandemic that killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people across the globe.

But Abbott persevered, and soon moved to Europe to continue her studies in sculpture. In 1923, she got word that legendary modernist artist Man Ray was looking to hire someone who knew nothing about photography to work in his portrait studio darkroom and as a blank-slate assistant. Abbott jumped at the opportunity and soon discovered her passion for photography, impressing Ray into allowing her to use his studio for her own portraits. She went on to photograph such cultural icons as James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, and Marcel Duchamp. To be photographed by Abbott eventually became a seal of cultural significance.

In 1925, Abbott discovered the work of Eugène Atget and was instantly mesmerized. After Atget’s death two years later, Abbott took it upon herself to see to his legacy. In early 1929, she set out to find an American publisher for Atget’s photographs and found herself in New York City. But, once there, she was taken with the city’s photogenic handsomeness and decided to pursue her own photography. She returned to Paris, closed down her studio, and returned to New York to capture its spirit with her large-format Century Universal camera. With a modernist aesthetic influenced by Atget and a cultural lens shaped by the writings of urbanism pioneer Lewis Mumford, who advocated for a human-centric antidote to the mechanical age of the Second Industrial Revolution, Abbott went on to produce a powerful visual time-capsule of unique turning point in twentieth-century history.

In 1935, she fell in love with art historian and critic Elizabeth McCausland, and the two moved into a loft in the Greenwich Village. They remained together until McCausland’s death in 1965.

In the late 1950s, Abbott turned to the intersection of art and science with her series of minimalist black-and-white photographic abstractions of scientific processes.

Today, Abbott’s legacy reverberates through both the aesthetic language of modern visual culture and the social change movements that succeeded the dawn of urbanism.

Learn more: Brain Pickings  |  Wikipedia  |  Biography

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Bryan M. Ferguson. The Neurotic Informant, 2012.

http://bryanmferguson.tumblr.com