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whitehotel: Cecil Beaton, Paula Gellibrand, the Marquesa de...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:20:36 -0500

whitehotel:

Cecil Beaton, Paula Gellibrand, the Marquesa de Casa Maury (1928)

thelingerieaddict: vintagegal: Eartha Kitt as Catwoman...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:17:07 -0500

thelingerieaddict:

vintagegal:

Eartha Kitt as Catwoman 1960’s

Yes.

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Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:59:12 -0500

"It matters, because everything we say Of the past is description without place, a cast Of the..."

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:46:57 -0500

“It matters, because everything we say
Of the past is description without place, a cast

Of the imagination, made in sound;
And because what we say of the future must portend,

Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be
Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.”

- Wallace Stevens, from “Description Without Place” (via the-final-sentence)

amandaonwriting: Literary Birthday - 9 January Happy Birthday,...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:45:52 -0500

amandaonwriting:

Literary Birthday - 9 January

Happy Birthday, Simone de Beauvoir, born 9 January 1908, died 14 April 1986

Simone de Beauvoir: Nine Quotes

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[…].

(What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.)

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. She was a schoolteacher, and an editor, with Jean-Paul Sartre, of Les Temps Modèrnes. Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is best known for She Came to Stay, The Mandarins, and The Second Sex.

by Amanda Patterson from Writers Write

"To be a reader … is really to be a writer of one’s life, to try to shape one’s life in the image of..."

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:35:09 -0500

“To be a reader … is really to be a writer of one’s life, to try to shape one’s life in the image of the values promoted by what one reads.”

- Adam Kirsch on life and letters, echoing William Gibson’s notion of “personal microculture.” Strengthen your own relationship with reading and writing here. (via explore-blog)

mbengmellow: Of course, Marie Antoinette wants her own Macbook...

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:42:10 -0400

mbengmellow:

Of course, Marie Antoinette wants her own Macbook Pro as well ;)

"Music: the breathing of statues. Perhaps: the silence of paintings. Language where language ends."

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:39:49 -0400

“Music: the breathing of statues. Perhaps:
the silence of paintings. Language where
language ends.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke, from “On Music,” 1918, trans. Robert Bly (Thank you, proustitute)

dashedlines: (via Dilly Dallas) I had a dress verY like this...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:38:08 -0400

dashedlines:

(via Dilly Dallas)

I had a dress verY like this in my dress up box as a kid.

dashedlines: (via i am a greedy girl.)

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:36:59 -0400

dashedlines:

(via i am a greedy girl.)

fullbloom: “Fireflies” is from Shane Deruise’s latest personal...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:33:07 -0400

fullbloom:

“Fireflies” is from Shane Deruise’s latest personal project which he describes as “an exploration into the adventure and wonderment we all felt as a child, but somehow lost along the way.” Inspired by his own memories growing up in a small coastal town, “we are all searching for ways to recapture that faint feeling of the vast and unending world of our childhood. In some small way, developing this new work for my portfolio has opened my eyes to the way the world use to feel in my heart.” (via Youthful Glow | PDN Photo of the Day)

findout: From his series Congo Lowland Gorillas At least twice...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:30:59 -0400

findout:

From his series Congo Lowland Gorillas

At least twice a month, often more, the group travels to the swamp areas for foraging.

Ian Nichols

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Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:22:26 -0400

Music and politics: For those wondering why I wrote about protest singing | The Economist

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:14:07 -0400

Music and politics: For those wondering why I wrote about protest singing | The Economist

lprecords: machines-repaired:Etude 6

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:54:00 -0500

lprecords:

machines-repaired:Etude 6

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Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:21:11 -0500

"In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody..."

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:46:11 -0500

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

- Haruki Murakami (via silentsigh57)

rock that horse » Sssssss

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:26:06 -0500

rock that horse » Sssssss

sisterwife: Soul II Soul - Back To Life

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:13:15 -0500

sisterwife:

Soul II Soul - Back To Life

defacedbook: Bernd Kleinheisterkamp Bibliothek Ihres...

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:28:11 -0500

defacedbook:

Bernd Kleinheisterkamp

Bibliothek Ihres Vertauens/Your Trusted Library, 2009

Painted out book, water colours, unique