Vincent & Aphrodite

"While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in a windowpane."

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:46:14 -0800

““While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in a windowpane.””

- Billy Collins (via theparisreview)

"While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in a windowpane."

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:46:13 -0800

““While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in a windowpane.””

- Billy Collins (via theparisreview)

Photo

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:46:02 -0800

"A gutsy, passionate, individualistic, flawed but very human, very from-the-gut review, will always..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:42:25 -0800

““A gutsy, passionate, individualistic, flawed but very human, very from-the-gut review, will always stand up in some way. It will be a truth and a truth is always better than no truth.””

- John Simon (via theparisreview)

"A gutsy, passionate, individualistic, flawed but very human, very from-the-gut review, will always..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:42:24 -0800

tuesday-johnson: ca. 1870-90s, [‘hidden mother’ tintype...

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:42:08 -0800

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1870-90s, [‘hidden mother’ tintype portrait of an infant in a white dress]

via Ebay

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:26:34 -0800

yannickbrouwer: This little company from Kenya makes toys from...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:24:48 -0800

yannickbrouwer:

This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis

Oscar Cahén, 1951 (via leifpeng)

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:20:41 -0800

Oscar Cahén, 1951 (via leifpeng)

theparisreview: Nature harbors no opinions;it is we who think...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:46:10 -0800

theparisreview:

Nature harbors no opinions;
it is we who think of her.
We make sentience

of her indifference, and we communicate
by engineering, adjectives, and awesome
violence. When I arrive

at the island, my soul
will harbor no opinions.
I’ll stop my car

where sea-air and sand-light
become one perception,
all the world my affections, stitched together

by a muster of billboards, the dizzying gulls,
and a drawbridge open in prayer.

—Alan Michael Parker, from “The Island”
Art Credit Margarita Georgiadis

theparisreview: Nature harbors no opinions;it is we who think...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:46:09 -0800

theparisreview:

Nature harbors no opinions;
it is we who think of her.
We make sentience

of her indifference, and we communicate
by engineering, adjectives, and awesome
violence. When I arrive

at the island, my soul
will harbor no opinions.
I’ll stop my car

where sea-air and sand-light
become one perception,
all the world my affections, stitched together

by a muster of billboards, the dizzying gulls,
and a drawbridge open in prayer.

—Alan Michael Parker, from “The Island”
Art Credit Margarita Georgiadis

fragmentedletters: Opera Paris by Night, 1891, Aleksander...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:44:52 -0800

fragmentedletters:

Opera Paris by Night, 1891, Aleksander Gierymski. Polish (1850 - 1901)

“Misery is easy. Happiness you have to work at” - Ondine

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:55:12 -0800

“Misery is easy. Happiness you have to work at”
- Ondine

tangledupinlace: satyacake: “My body that has brought me at...

Sun, 12 May 2013 17:03:26 -0800

tangledupinlace:

satyacake:

“My body that has brought me at least my fair share of pleasure and joy and is still allowing me to have the fantastic experience of life in a carnal body.” — Heather MacAllister (Reva Lucian)

Every time I see Leshaun a wave of gold energy rushes over me

fantasmicorange: movementsofthesoul: In the 1950s, Swiss...

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:25:23 -0800

fantasmicorange:

movementsofthesoul:

In the 1950s, Swiss photographer Robert Frank snapped a photo of a Miami Beach elevator girl gazing upward, lost in thought, which was included in his 1958 photographic road-trip journal “The Americans.”

In the book’s introduction, Jack Kerouac wondered about her, writing, “That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address?”

Kerouac never found out, because Sharon Collins only recognized herself as the girl in the photo [12] years ago, when “The Americans” was being exhibited in San Francisco. [She stated,] “I stood in front of this particular photograph for probably a full five minutes, not knowing why I was staring at it. And then it really dawned on me that the girl in the picture was me.”

This makes me think of the following line from On the Road:

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”

hereby: i7oda: You only see what they want you to see,...

Wed, 08 May 2013 06:57:40 -0800

hereby:

i7oda:

You only see what they want you to see, remember that.

whoa

La Jetée - Chris Marker, 1962 La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc...

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:59:28 -0800

La Jetée - Chris Marker, 1962

La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928

life: Russian woman eyes a rhinestone bracelet at a display of...

Thu, 02 May 2013 22:29:02 -0800

life:

Russian woman eyes a rhinestone bracelet at a display of British fashions, 1956. More stunning crowd shots by Lisa Larsen here.

(Lisa Larsen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

nbcsnl: gifsfln: Zach Galifianakis is ready to shoot this...

Wed, 01 May 2013 20:02:10 -0800

nbcsnl:

gifsfln:

Zach Galifianakis is ready to shoot this week’s SNL pornos.

Happens all the time…

A village in India plants 111 trees every time a baby girl is born

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:09:25 -0800

A village in India plants 111 trees every time a baby girl is born:

deafmuslimpunx:

While in some parts of India, many expectant parents still say they’d prefer bearing sons, members of the Piplantri village, in the western state of Rajasthan, are breaking this trend by celebrating the birth of each baby girl in way that benefits everyone. For every female child that’s born, the community gathers to plant 111 fruit trees in her honor in the village common.

This unique tradition was first suggested by the village’s former leader, Shyam Sundar Paliwal, in honor of his daughter who had passed away at a young age.

But planting trees is only one way that the community is ensuring a brighter future for their daughters. According to a report in The Hindu, villagers also pool together around $380 dollars for every new baby girl and deposited in an account for her. The girl’s parents are required to contribute $180, and to make a pledge to be considerate guardians.

“We make these parents sign an affidavit promising that they would not marry her off before the legal age, send her to school regularly and take care of the trees planted in her name,” says Paliwal.

Over the last six years alone, as population there has increased, villagers in Piplantri have planted nearly a quarter million trees — a welcoming forest for the community’s youngest members, offering a bit of shade for their brighter future.

via Micropixie / The Hindu