until the sky turns green

Meg White: We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.

Sun, 27 May 2012 13:57:08 +0100

Meg White: We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.
Jack White: Well, Meg, I disagree, because I know you love cotton candy. Yet you don't know how to make cotton candy yourself. So you do need the rest of the world.

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Sun, 20 May 2012 20:04:14 +0100

dirtycartunes: Chet Baker & Teddy Charles, Pasadena, 1953...

Sun, 20 May 2012 20:02:12 +0100

dirtycartunes:

Chet Baker & Teddy Charles, Pasadena, 1953 photographed by William Claxton

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Thu, 10 May 2012 03:47:30 +0100

ga-hee: Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生) born 22 March 1929 (that makes her...

Thu, 10 May 2012 03:42:52 +0100

ga-hee:

Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生) born 22 March 1929 (that makes her 83 years old this year). Began creating art since a young age in Japan; moved to New York in 1957; association with the pop movement and influenced by the abstract expressionist movement. Returned to Japan in 1973. Well known for her astounding collab with Louis Vuitton, named “infinitely kusama” which will make its debut in June 2012. Has an obsession with spots and polka-dots.

Since childhood, Kusama has experienced hallucinations and severe obsessive thoughts, those of which have often been of suicidal nature. What really fascinates me about Kusama’s work is that, from 1977 and after, Kusama voluntarily admitted into and now lives in a psychiatric institution. But actually, this is the source of her inspirations - the majority of her most successful works are marked with themes of obsessiveness and desire to escape from psychological trauma.

The irony of Kusama creating pieces expressing her yearning of escape from psychological ordeals while inside, pretty much, the core of psychological mess, is absolutely brilliant. I love the way she includes snippets of her present life and uses it in her art; it’s as if she were dictating stories, making a map of her life, or perhaps just venting a lot of emotion and thoughts through colours and patterns. And perhaps, there’s an even darker undercurrent than what meets the eye.

Kusama’s work is currently being displayed at the Tate Modern.

todaysdocument: May 9 is National Bike to School Day SCHOOL...

Thu, 10 May 2012 03:40:27 +0100

todaysdocument:

May 9 is National Bike to School Day

SCHOOL CHILDREN, WERE FORCED TO USE THEIR BICYCLES ON FIELD TRIPS DURING THE FUEL CRISIS IN THE WINTER OF 1974… 02/1974

David Falconer, photographer. From the EPA Series: DOCUMERICA

himmelfahrt: James Dean and Eartha Kitt in NYC

Fri, 04 May 2012 01:12:47 +0100

himmelfahrt:

James Dean and Eartha Kitt in NYC

zombiesenelghetto: Edie Sedgwick by Jerry Schatzburg via...

Wed, 02 May 2012 18:34:06 +0100

zombiesenelghetto:

Edie Sedgwick by Jerry Schatzburg

via stupefaction

bulletbitten: Echolilia All parents love their children. But...

Wed, 02 May 2012 18:33:00 +0100

bulletbitten:

Echolilia

All parents love their children. But what do you do when you can’t connect with them? In my case, I started making photographs of, and with, my son Elijah, who has autism spectrum disorder. This series—the title is from “echolalia,” a clinical term for the mimicking aspect of his condition—shows the bridges we’ve built on our shared journey of wonder, discovery, and understanding.

We began this project when Eli was five. He was doing well at school but fixating on odd things, lashing out, speaking repetitively. My wife and I couldn’t figure him out. Then I started taking pictures of him around the house. It was an instinctive act for a photographer: Point your camera at something in order to make sense of it. But a curious thing happened. As I documented what Eli was doing and creating, he became interested in the images I was making. I was learning how he thinks; he was learning what I like and value.

We soon had a system. Eli would do something unusual, one of us would notice, and we’d make a photo of it together. The pictures we took over three years were more raw and feral than anything I’d done as an editorial or advertising photographer. And more personal. This is, after all, the story of a father and his son.

Timothy Archibald’s book, Echolilia: Sometimes I Wonder, was published last year by Echo Press. See more of his work at timothyarchibald.com.

This is so beautiful.

otrotc:thecreatorsproject: British DJ John Peel’s legendary...

Wed, 02 May 2012 14:22:19 +0100

otrotc:thecreatorsproject:

British DJ John Peel’s legendary record collection is now available online.

zuriich: Included in the preface to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture...

Wed, 02 May 2012 14:19:04 +0100

zuriich:

Included in the preface to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is the now famous and often misconstrued line, “All art is quite useless.” Following the novel’s original publication in 1890, an intrigued fan named Bernulf Clegg wrote to Wilde and asked him to elaborate; he did so, by way of the handwritten letter seen below.

“My dear Sir

Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way. It is superbly sterile, and the note of its pleasure is sterility. If the contemplation of a work of art is followed by activity of any kind, the work is either of a very second-rate order, or the spectator has failed to realise the complete artistic impression.

A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one.

Truly yours,

Oscar Wilde”

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minusmanhattan: A view of the city from the New York tower of...

Tue, 01 May 2012 22:37:57 +0100

minusmanhattan:

A view of the city from the New York tower of George Washington Bridge, 168th Street & Hudson River, on December 22, 1936. Photograph by Jack Rosenzwieg.

From the NYC Municipal Archives Gallery.

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new..."

Tue, 01 May 2012 13:46:52 +0100

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?”

- Chuck Palahniuk (via anarchyxmydear)

Stockholm streets on 3 September 1967, the day when Sweden...

Tue, 01 May 2012 13:35:07 +0100

Stockholm streets on 3 September 1967, the day when Sweden switched from driving on the left to the right.

elegantbuffalo: Skagen is the northernmost point of Denmark,...

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:32:52 +0100

elegantbuffalo:

Skagen is the northernmost point of Denmark, where the Baltic and North Seas meet. The two opposing tides in this place can not merge because they have different densities.

viverevis: The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning Sunday...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:09:03 +0100

viverevis:

The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning

Sunday morning and I’m falling
I’ve got a feeling I don’t want to know

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:53:46 +0100

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:32:04 +0100

chrisevanshasmyheart: Chris Evans helping clean up even though...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:30:41 +0100

chrisevanshasmyheart:

Chris Evans helping clean up even though he doesn’t have to because he’s the lead fucking actor

He truly is captain america, isn’t he?

avettlove: I will rearrange my plans and change for you..

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:33:40 +0100

avettlove:

I will rearrange my plans and change for you..

until the sky turns green

Meg White: We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.

Photo

dirtycartunes: Chet Baker & Teddy Charles, Pasadena, 1953...

Photo

ga-hee: Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生) born 22 March 1929 (that makes her...

todaysdocument: May 9 is National Bike to School Day SCHOOL...

himmelfahrt: James Dean and Eartha Kitt in NYC

zombiesenelghetto: Edie Sedgwick by Jerry Schatzburg via...

bulletbitten: Echolilia All parents love their children. But...

otrotc:thecreatorsproject: British DJ John Peel’s legendary...

zuriich: Included in the preface to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture...

minusmanhattan: A view of the city from the New York tower of...

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new..."

Stockholm streets on 3 September 1967, the day when Sweden...

elegantbuffalo: Skagen is the northernmost point of Denmark,...

viverevis: The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning Sunday...

Photo

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chrisevanshasmyheart: Chris Evans helping clean up even though...

avettlove: I will rearrange my plans and change for you..

ga-hee: Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生) born 22 March 1929 (that makes her...