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explore-blog: This is how humor works: It’s a conflict of...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:36:09 -0700

This is how humor works: It’s a conflict of synergies — we mashup these things that don’t belong together that temporarily exist in out minds.

A TED salon curated by Helen Walters, titled “Design Is Everywhere,” New Yorker cartoons editor Bob Mankoff illustrates his theory of humor with his most famous cartoon, which juxtaposes the syntax of politeness with the content of rudeness.

He also notes that the magazine calls cartoons “idea drawings” because an idea drawing “it requires thinking on behalf of cartoonish and thinking on behalf of reader to make it work.”

For more illustrative epitomes in action, see The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs.

explore-blog: Ah, yes. The Cocktail Chart of Film &...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:29:46 -0700

explore-blog:

Ah, yes. The Cocktail Chart of Film & Literature from Pop Chart Lab, who have previously charted the varieties of coffee, the history of Apple, America’s bike lanes, the composition of classic cocktails, the wonders of serif fonts, Gotham’s villains, and the 64 guitars that defined rock history.

Serve with recipes form The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook.

Everything from Victor Lazlo’s champagne cocktail in Casablanca to The Dude’s white Russian from The Big Lewbowski.

artchipel: ART CONNECTÉ 2 | VISIONS {TRANS}FORMÉES Gregory...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:24:21 -0700

artchipel:

ART CONNECTÉ 2 | VISIONS {TRANS}FORMÉES

Gregory Kaoua | on Tumblr (France)

Son goût pour l’image, Gregory Kaoua le tient de son métier qui l’amène depuis des années à voyager partout dans le monde. La série Black Bangkok est le premier extrait de ses carnets retraçant ses séjours en Thaïlande en 2012. Coup de cœur de la galerie SHAG pour la puissance de ses images, son sens de la narration et son esthétique parfaitement maîtrisée, Grégory Kaoua n’en restera certainement pas là.

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Love!

alwaysinsearchoflight: Within the Temple lies the Sun of my...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:20:26 -0700

alwaysinsearchoflight:

Within the Temple lies the Sun of my Soul.

That longs to Sing, to help my Wings unfold.

Divinity where are you?

Where i`ve always been.

I`m with you now, in the Temple within.

Remember your essence, Radiate in Spirit.

The Temple is calling, be still and hear it.

A reminder that Egyptian temples were colorfully painted. Gorgeous!

ckck: The Cannes Film Festival in the 50s and 60s. My...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:13:25 -0700

ckck:

The Cannes Film Festival in the 50s and 60s.

My character, Pagan Jones, will visit the Cannes Film Fest in a future story I hope I get to write! Great shots here from around that time.

Children’s Illustrators: Kay Nielsen Born in Denmark in 1886,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:05:14 -0700

Children’s Illustrators: Kay Nielsen

Born in Denmark in 1886, Nielsen was inspired by Art Nouveau and Eastern influences in his illustrations, and adopted many practices of Japanese woodcuts, such as asymmetrical composition, large vacant areas, sinuous linework, and flattened perspective.

neil-gaiman: mercurialme: I knew y’all would have a gif set of...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:22:23 -0700

neil-gaiman:

mercurialme:

I knew y’all would have a gif set of this by morning.

Truth.

gameofthrones: www.facebook.com/maik.schmidt.733?ref=tn_tnmn

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:15:42 -0700

gameofthrones:

www.facebook.com/maik.schmidt.733?ref=tn_tnmn

The Whale at Coney Island – M4M — 69 (Brooklyn/Florida) A young...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:05:00 -0700

The Whale at Coney Island

– M4M — 69

(Brooklyn/Florida)

A young friend of mine recently acquainted me with the intricacies of Missed Connections, and I have decided to try to find you one final time.

Many years ago, we were friends and teachers together in New York City. Perhaps we could have been lovers too, but we were not. We used to take trips to Coney Island, especially during the spring, when we would stroll hand in hand, until our palms got too sweaty, along the boardwalk, and take refuge in the cool darkness of the aquarium. We liked to visit the whale best. One spring, it arrived from its winter home (in Florida? I can’t remember) pregnant. Everyone at the aquarium was very excited — a baby beluga whale was going to be born in New York City! You insisted that we not miss the birth, so every day after class, and on both Saturday and Sunday, we would take the D train all the way from Harlem to Coney Island.

We got there one Saturday as the aquarium opened and there was a sign posted to the glass tank. The baby beluga had been born dead. The mother, the sign read, was recovering but would be fine. We read the sign in shock and watched the single beluga whale in her tank. She was circling slowly. Neither of us could speak. Suddenly, without warning, the beluga started to throw herself against the wall of the tank. Trainers came and ushered us out. We sat on a bench outside, and suddenly I felt tears running down my face. You saw, turned my face towards yours, and kissed me. We had never kissed before, and I let my lips linger on yours for a second before I stood up and walked towards the ocean.

It was too much — the whale, the death, the kiss — and I wasn’t ready.

Forgive me — I don’t think I ever understood what an emptiness you would create when you left and I realized that that kiss on Coney Island was the first and the last.

Are you out there, dear friend?

If so, please respond. I think of you, and have thought of you often, all of these years.

An amazing story. From Sophie Blackall’s book Missed Connections.

thoughtlessoceans: This is amazing.

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:55:43 -0700

thoughtlessoceans:

This is amazing.

I love this. Both the fact that the elephant did what he did,...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:17:38 -0700

I love this. Both the fact that the elephant did what he did, and that they erected this sign for him. This is an 1894 photo,Telok Anson, Perak, Malaysia.

smithsonianmag: Samurai with Katana and Wakizashi Felice...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:29:15 -0700

smithsonianmag:

Samurai with Katana and Wakizashi

Felice Beato’s 1860 photograph of a Japanese samurai.

Ed note: Meet Jinichi Kawakami, Japan’s last ninja.

theparisreview: “Mad Men and other dramatic re-creations tidy...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:14:57 -0700

theparisreview:

“Mad Men and other dramatic re-creations tidy up the social anarchy of those years; Winogrand’s camera didn’t.”

Richard Woodward on SFMOMA’s Garry Winogrand retrospective.

explore-blog: Artist Austin Kleon’s irreverent and...

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:41:52 -0700

explore-blog:

Artist Austin Kleon’s irreverent and heart-warming newspaper blackout poem for his mom. His Newspaper Blackout project is full of gems like this one.

Also see Kleon on how to steal like an artist

tracylord: Happy Birthday Katharine! ↳ (May 12, 1907 – June 29,...

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:35:18 -0700

tracylord:

Happy Birthday Katharine!

↳ (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003)

”As an actress she’s a joy to work with she’s in there every minute. There isn’t anything passive about her she ‘gives’ and as a person she’s real.”

Cary Grant

“Time with her was more than time well spent a little bit either was worth days and weeks and months with somebody else.”

Lauren Bacall

Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a Mom....

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:24:27 -0700

Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a Mom. Happy Mother’s Day! (From Save the Tiger.)

Flow Chart: Which Occupation Is Meant For You In The ‘Star Wars’ Universe

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:52:37 -0700

Flow Chart: Which Occupation Is Meant For You In The ‘Star Wars’ Universe:

Jedi knight = huzzah!

This must go somewhere magical.

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:30:29 -0700

This must go somewhere magical.

Tiger scape by Saurabh Tamne.

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:15:22 -0700

Tiger scape by Saurabh Tamne.

the60sbazaar: Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain for La Dolce...

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:12:13 -0700

the60sbazaar:

Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain for La Dolce Vita

I was lucky enough to be in Rome a couple of years ago. After visiting the Trevi Fountain and other places, we went back to our hotel and turned on the TV. This scene from La Dolce Vita was playing. It was magical.