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The Dude

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:23:00 -0400

The Dude

architizer: Check Out This Phenomenal Beach House by Horst...

Wed, 29 May 2013 12:44:39 -0400

Photo: The Strand Residence by Horst Architects. 2010.

Photo: The Strand Residence by Horst Architects. 2010.

Photo: The Strand Residence by Horst Architects. 2010.

architizer:

Check Out This Phenomenal Beach House by Horst Architects!

“The parti reflects the program through a composition of three diaphanous pavilions around a central, unifying courtyard…A series of overlapping reflecting ponds contained within the central courtyard instill a sense of meditation and retreat where one can contemplate the ocean and sky.” Click here to read more!

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Wed, 29 May 2013 12:43:35 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 15:57:31 -0400

theartofanimation: TangoCharlieESQ

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:38:57 -0400

theartofanimation:

TangoCharlieESQ

Hemingway Knows: the best parts.

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:19:43 -0400

Hemingway Knows: the best parts.:

cordeliagablewrites:

You can usually spot a “good” book (when I say “good,” I mean not just “good” but “good for you”) by such tell-tale signs as (a) no cover art, (b) rice paper thin pages (like they use for Bibles), (c) small type-font, (d) handwritten notes in the margins, and (e) large, random coffee stains. Oh,…

infographicstalker: Infografica by Matteo Giuseppe Pani “This...

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:08:14 -0400

infographicstalker:

Infografica by Matteo Giuseppe Pani

“This info-graphic I made was requested to illustrate the link between water usage and fast food production in an interesting and attractive way. All the objects that you can see in the images were personally hand made by simply using paper. What’s more, I tried to combine different paper folding techniques to obtain the best result.”

123lee: Banksy. This is what makes him the best.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:14:16 -0400

123lee:

Banksy.

This is what makes him the best.

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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:02:30 -0400

cjwho: House of Silence by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:07:27 -0400

cjwho:

House of Silence by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects

Calvin & Hobbes Stargazers

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:05:36 -0400

Calvin & Hobbes Stargazers

louisemcnaught: ‘Metaswan’, pencil, bible-markers and acrylic...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:36:47 -0400

louisemcnaught:

‘Metaswan’, pencil, bible-markers and acrylic on Bockingford paper’, 56x76cm (03/2013) by Louise McNaught

exoticsuicide: theblackship: ditchlilies: The original...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:00:18 -0400

exoticsuicide:

theblackship:

ditchlilies:

The original story of the little mermaid is that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and in the end, she loves him too much and kills herself instead.

The artwork is too great not to reblog.

Ok, ok - important expansion: she only has to kill the Prince because the deal was if he fell in love with her she could be human forever, and he didn’t. By which I mean, he was a good person and genuinely nice to her, but he didn’t fall in love. He fell in love with someone else, also perfectly nice - not the seawitch in disguise, fu Disney. The Mermaid is told she can only return to the sea now if she kills the Prince. She goes into the room where he and his lover lie sleeping and they look so beautiful and happy together that she can’t do it.

That’s why she kills herself. And because it was a noble act she returns to sea as foam.

One moral of the story was that women shouldn’t fundamentally change who they are for love of a man, and in theory Han Christian Anderson wrote it for a ballerina with whom he fell in love. She was marrying someone else who wouldn’t let her dance.

i heard from something else that the little mermaid was written by the author for another man he loved who didn’t love him back, but it was written as a “love letter” of sorts.

^ yup, i thought so too…i think he wrote that story as a love letter to Edvard Collin. Andersen, upon hearing of Collin’s engagement to a young woman, proclaimed his love to him. He told him ”I long for you as though you were a beautiful Calabrian girl.” Edvard Collin turned Andersen down, disgusted. Andersen then wrote The Little Mermaid to symbolize his inability to have Collin just as a mermaid cannot be with a human. He sent it to Collin in 1936 and it goes down in history as one of the most profound love letters ever written.

I like this story better

(by byss and abyss)

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:57:52 -0400

(by byss and abyss)

fakeville: waterfall 1 by sasa stucin on Flickr.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:56:21 -0400

fakeville:

waterfall 1 by sasa stucin on Flickr.

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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:56:00 -0400

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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:55:51 -0400

curioos-arts: Istvan (Switzerland) via @Curioos by...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:31:01 -0400

curioos-arts:

Istvan (Switzerland)
via @Curioos by @ChaoticAtmsphr

Show Poster for The 2013 Diabetes Research Institute Benefit...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:34:34 -0400

Show Poster for The 2013 Diabetes Research Institute Benefit Show.

Featuring PAC DIV & JOHNNY POLYGON

Poster by Jonathon Valle

bootblackboy: art nouveau door

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:13:00 -0500

bootblackboy:

art nouveau door