Obsession Plantation

fariedesign: The things you can’t copy are the the things you...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:45:31 +0100

fariedesign:

The things you can’t copy are the the things you can’t replace.

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Wed, 08 May 2013 11:22:38 +0100

scientificillustration: Prunus cerasus from: ‘Vervolg op de...

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:17:46 +0100

scientificillustration:

Prunus cerasus from: ‘Vervolg op de Afbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met derzelver Nederduitsche en Latynsche beschryvingen (1813)’

iamjapanese: Ronald Ruble（American, b.1935） Pines ...

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:48:36 +0100

iamjapanese:

Ronald Ruble（American, b.1935）

Pines 1978

etching

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Wed, 01 May 2013 23:16:52 +0100

"After centuries and centuries of building, he had learned exactly how it all had to be done. He..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:28:38 +0100

“After centuries and centuries of building, he had learned exactly how it all had to be done. He believed in a law of equalities which ordained a perfect balance. For everything that was raised, something had to fall, and there was no free form, since all form had shadow and counterpart. Hence his opposition. He respected them and had no desire to win them over, for that would have implied that he believed they were fighting without a reason. Their actions, too, were just, and he might well have been on their side. But he wasn’t, for his task was to move things forward, and to do this he had to fight them. He was fond of saying that there had never been a builder who had not understood war.”

- Winter’s Tale, by Mark Helprin

"the inability to control one’s train of thought has important real world consequences"

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:42:30 +0100

“the inability to control one’s train of thought has important real world consequences”

- In Defense of Working Memory Training (via outofcontextscience)

diggly: fucking engineers

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:26:41 +0100

diggly:

fucking engineers

No Plot, No Problem (Chris Baty)

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:04:00 +0100

No Plot, No Problem (Chris Baty)

crawling my way to the end of this semester

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:41:51 +0100

crawling my way to the end of this semester

"Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an..."

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:46:02 +0100

“Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.”

- JM Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello (via secretcities)

"Language is the only homeland."

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:01:42 +0000

“Language is the only homeland.”

- Czesław Miłosz (via mythologyofblue)

Bovarysme

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:49:14 +0000

panoramicchrestomathy:

From Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1857). A tendency toward escapist daydreaming in which the dreamer imagines herself or himself to be a hero or heroine in a romance. Madame Bovary suffered from such a condition.

555. Whatever you do, don't read the comments.

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:27:20 +0000

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Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:33:12 +0000

Waking Dream Seance, photo by Man Ray, 1924

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:34:12 +0000

Waking Dream Seance, photo by Man Ray, 1924

"Tell me one last thing,” said Harry, “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my..."

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:01:00 +0000

““Tell me one last thing,” said Harry, “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry’s ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?””

- “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, J. K. Rowling

allthingseurope: České Švýcarsko National Park, Czech Republic...

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:11:43 +0000

allthingseurope:

České Švýcarsko National Park, Czech Republic (by filip.molcan)

oldbookillustrations: Fabulous and composite animals, from...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:00:38 +0000

oldbookillustrations:

Fabulous and composite animals, from Theory and practice of design, by Frank G. Jackson, London, 1894.
Via archive.org

slaughterhouse90210: “Like most modern people, I don’t believe...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:00:07 +0000

slaughterhouse90210:

“Like most modern people, I don’t believe in prophecy or magic and
then spend half my time practicing it.”
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent