New beat with old-school vibe.
"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist—but don’t think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you."
— Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald, critiquing a Tender is the Night manuscript draft in a letter dated 28 May 1934. Full text posted at Letters of Note. (via sarahspy)
(via slim)
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
— The Queen in Through The Looking Glass
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Portugal. The Man covers Etta James, I’d Rather Go Blind
"there is much beauty here because there is much beauty everywhere."
— Rilke
OCD sammich (via swiss miss)
On The Shoulders of Miniatures by Do Ho Suh
Entitled “Floor”, this piece currently showing at Lehmann Maupin gallery in Singapore through February 11th, 2012 features a glass panel held aloft by thousands of tiny plastic figures, all straining to keep the floor of level for you, their unintended god.
(via: My Modern Met)
by a favorite of mine, marc johns
Ronald Searle, Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs Mole
47 jewel-like drawings by Ronald Searle made for his wife, Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy. On New Year’s Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and virulent form of breast cancer. Each time she underwent treatment, Ronald produced a Mrs Mole drawing ‘to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead’. Filled with light and illuminated in glowing colours, the drawings speak of love, optimism and hope. Like the mediaeval illuminated manuscripts such as the 15th-century Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, to which the title of this book refers, the 47 drawings are on an intimate scale and were never intended for publication.
When asked about the drawings, Searle said, “I have only my talent for drawing, so I drew.” Here’s a little more about them:
Prior to the cancer shock the couple had bought a decrepit house in the south of France and, despite her illness, Monica continued to devote her time making this house a home.
Devastated with his wife’s diagnosis Ronald did the only thing he knew how to do to cheer her up. .. draw.
Before every chemotherapy session he gave his wife a painting. Monica was depicted as a mole, a very happy mole celebrating life in their new home. (The Mole idea came after their discovery of a large celler that they made into a cosy room)
‘Everything about them had to be romantic and perfect,’ says Ronald. ‘I drew them originally for no one’s eyes except Mo’s, so she would look at them propped up against her bedside lamp and think: “When I’m better, everything will be beautiful.”
(Images via bluedoorbooks)
"Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror."
— Rilke (and my resolution for 2012)
