“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
— Roberto Bolaño
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CremeBroulee
"A Tourist is a person who wishes to go home as soon as they arrive. A Traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly."
- Paul Bowles
Geordie Alphabet
Sorry About The Mess But We Live Here
Proposal of interventions to rehabilitate the district of San Roque, Alicante.
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Pandora’s Dropbox, 2013
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to create art means
Charles Bukowski (via thrivings)
to be crazy alone
forever
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Still Life by Georges Valmier, 1912
The Electrical Management (Elektroprivreda) Building in Sarajevo, Bosnia. It was destroyed during the war in the early 1990s. Lebbeus Woods made a proposal for a reconstruction in 1994.
Featured Artist: Alaina Varrone
Alaina is an embroidery artist from New Haven, Connecticut. Her amazing stitch work tells captivating stories often with erotic or bizarre subjects. Each one is interesting, sometimes with dark or humorous undertones.
You can find her work on her website, etsy shop and flickr. Her instagram is spiderspaw.
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Sept. 1, 2012. A villager offers flowers to a female adult elephant lying dead on a paddy field in Panbari village, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Gauhati, India. (Photo: Anupam Nath—AP)
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Moving to Brooklyn…
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
While doing research for our cool new feature on heritage apples, we found this 100-year-old book—still the definitive resource for New England apple enthusiasts. It’s chock full of info and these gorgeous, gorgeous illustrations. We had to share! Especially after tracking down a physical copy in a small library tucked in a San Francisco warehouse.
An apple post a day keeps the Tumblr doctor away.
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Paris, view of Porte St.Denis, Emil Leonhard Smidt. Germany (1878 - 1954)
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