Cups, Anna Kendrick
I’ve got my ticket for the long way ‘round
Two bottle whiskey for the way
And I sure would like some sweet company
And I’m leaving tomorrow; what d’you say?
This is lovely – Diego Stocco makes music from leaves and a turntable.
— MoMA’s Paola Antonelli, mastermind of Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, at a recent TED salon titled “Design Is Everywhere.” (via explore-blog)
Hey Marseilles | Heartbeats
Every once in a while — often when we least expect it — we encounter someone more courageous, someone who choose to strive for that which (to us) seemed unrealistically unattainable, even elusive. And we marvel. We swoon. We gape. Often , we are in awe. I think we look at these people as lucky, when in fact, luck has nothing to do with it. It is really about the strength of their imagination; it is about how they constructed the possibilities for their Life. In short, unlike me, they didn’t determine what was impossible before it was even possible.Fail Safe – Debbie Millman’s fantastic illustrated essay of timeless advice on courage and the creative life.
Vintage French boxing trading cards circa 1895, which inspired the wonderful The Mighty Lalouche.
Fisticuffs!
Holger Lippmann’s generative paintings are improvisations with code and form.
Photographs taken inside musical instruments making them look like large and spacious rooms.
mierswa kluska.
(via concinne)
— A fine addition to history’s finest definitions of art from Greil Marcus’s fantastic 2013 SVA commencement address on how the division of high vs. low robs art of its essence. (via explore-blog)
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Ulisse Aldrovandi, Circa 1570
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Venturing Out in Different Way
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“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
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I want to be Neil’s biographer…
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Soul-warmer of the day: Maira Kalman on happiness and the human condition. Pair with the equally wonderful Fail Safe.
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The Emotionary, “words that don’t exist for feelings that do.” Complement with some playful takes on unusual words that do exist and a ...
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Legendary science essayist Stephen Jay Gould, who took his last breath 11 years ago this week, on why making unexpected connections is the key to...
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