intellectualize this.

checuanthechef:

#weaponofchoice #fixedgear

#weaponofchoice #fixedgear

You may think that you need more time to understand the past or become free of it, in other words, that the future will eventually free you of the past. This is a delusion. Only the present can free you of the past. More time cannot free you of time.

— Eckhart Tolle

(Source: catsmyname)

Dorothy Parker: Exactly what do you mean by "guts"?

Ernest Hemingway: I mean, grace under pressure.

elliottsmithob:

LUKE WOOD: “He was the John Lennon and Bob Dylan of my generation, but unlike those two, he was fighting a cultural tidal wave that always seemed to be going in the opposite direction.”

smileysmile.net - Elliott Smith

(Source: Virtual Elliott Smith Wall)

archiemcphee:

A street artist by the name of Combo created an awesome open-air art exhibition specifically for pigeons. Not only are the pieces pigeon-sized and placed at the birds’ eye level, they’re each easily recognizable pieces of well-known art that have been altered to reflect a pigeon-centric world. The pigeon version of American Gothic is probably our favourite.

[via Whitezine]

ceci n’est pas une plûme

nprfreshair:

Surreal Images Made from Elaborate Sets By Sandy Skoglund:

Decades before Photoshop was available, American photographer and installation artist Sandy Skoglund started creating surreal images by building amazingly elaborate sets, a process which took months to complete. Her works are characterized by an incredible amount of objects settled against contrasting colours or on a monochromatic colour scheme.

via Lost At E Minor

(Source: evavivas95)

If you ever think a day is fine, you weren’t paying attention. Probably somebody was getting clapped bloody while you ate your breakfast.

— Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

grishma:

spatula: Making Glass Cows (by Assembly)

How I thought cows stored milk for the first years of my life.

(Source: kilikilipowers)

historicporn:

Man uses American flag to assault civil rights activist.

1976.

It’s strange when it gets bigger like that because I don’t feel like I identify with that - I mean some of it I do but there’s a lot of music that’s out on, like, a humungous level that I just, I don’t understand, and I’m sure that they don’t understand me as much as I don’t understand them.

— Aesop Rock

I’m really fucking good at jigsaw puzzles.

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Scott Forbes)