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free-parking: Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker, 1979

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:40:24 -0500

Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker, 1979

shadesofwhatever: Good morning/afternoon. Here is the song that...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:01:32 -0500

Good morning/afternoon. Here is the song that was in Breaking Bad, the scene when Walt is on the patio, spinning his gun and plotting.

It is also the song my liver is singing right now.

Some advice for you: do not drink the well whiskey at Rainbo. You will die.

thisrecording: kristina bravo & anais nin

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:59:38 -0500

thisrecording:

kristina bravo & anais nin

Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:31:07 -0600

Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. At her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.

free-parking: Marina Abramović and Ulay, Death Self, 1977 To...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:33:31 -0600

free-parking:

Marina Abramović and Ulay, Death Self, 1977

To create this Death self, the two performers devised a piece in which they connected their mouths and took in each other’s exhaled breaths until they had used up all of the available oxygen. Seventeen minutes after the beginning of the performance they both fell to the floor unconscious, their lungs having filled with carbon dioxide. This personal piece explored the idea of an individual’s ability to absorb the life of another person, exchanging and destroying it.

Ulay and Abramović collaborated together for over a decade, upholding an intense and intimate relationship. In 1988, the two began a spiritual journey to end their relationship; each started at opposite ends of the Great Wall of China, walked 2500 km over a span of 90 days, met in the center, and said good-bye.

"Maybe I’m deluded here, looking for “authenticity” in a place where it doesn’t exist anymore, saying..."

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:58:28 -0600

“Maybe I’m deluded here, looking for “authenticity” in a place where it doesn’t exist anymore, saying something that many of you have been complaining about for years, but every time an artist the size of Timberlake or Green Day performs at SXSW they are literally stealing attention, and money, and fans, out of the hands of the 1,500 or so bands who shlepped all the way down there to ply their wares in front of the industry’s taste-makers. SXSW is a zero-sum game — there are a finite number of chips on the table, and there are winners and losers. Timberlake doesn’t need the fans, he doesn’t need the buzz, and he doesn’t need the torrent of “festival highlight recaps!” that will be written about his performance. Every blog post and magazine article written about Timberlake and Green Day is one that will not be written about an unknown band, because assholes like me will go out of our way to get into the show just so we can let assholes like you know we got into the show.”

- Luke O’Neil FTW (again) on one of the many reasons why I’m not in the least bit sad about bailing on SXSW this year. (via hilaryhughes)

mothgirlwings: Jean Harlow on the set of “Dinner At Eight”...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:37:22 -0600

mothgirlwings:

Jean Harlow on the set of “Dinner At Eight” (1933). Her white satin gown by Adrian was cut on the bias and so form fittting she could not sit down in it, so MGM constructed this “reclining board” so she could rest between takes.

theparisreview: February 21 is the anniversary of Anaïs Nin’s...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:15:46 -0600

theparisreview:

February 21 is the anniversary of Anaïs Nin’s birth. In the following film, Nin discusses Lou Andreas-Salomé and Friedrich Nietzsche.

“The Battle for Bobbed Hair” Photoplay Magazine, June, 1924

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:51:50 -0600

“The Battle for Bobbed Hair” Photoplay Magazine, June, 1924

odilonredon: Interesting! I had no idea they were doing this...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:05:58 -0600

odilonredon:

Interesting! I had no idea they were doing this art form outside Germany.

yellingatnuns: The Search for Self Artist: たみ。

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:43:57 -0600

yellingatnuns:

The Search for Self

Artist: たみ。

theworldwelivein: by Irene Suchocki

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:46:12 -0600

theworldwelivein:

by Irene Suchocki

publicdomainthing: Grand Torchlight Procession of The...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:45:38 -0600

publicdomainthing:

Grand Torchlight Procession of The Wide-Awake Clubs in the City of New York

1860

Cornell University Library

Download free fucking books!

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:46:32 -0600

Download free fucking books!:

A fuckload of classic literature:

1984 by George Orwell

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Aesop’s Fables by Aesop

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dubliners by James Joyce

Emma by Jane Austen

Erewhon by Samuel Butler

For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Grimms Fairy Tales by the brothers Grimm

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

Swanns Way by Marcel Proust

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Great Gatsby

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Iliad by Homer

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Odyssey by Homer

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Tales of Mother Goose by Charles Perrault

The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Duma

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Ulysses by James Joyce

Utopia by Sir Thomas More

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Within A Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

Women In Love by D. H. Lawrence

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Click on the motherfucking Hypelinks bitches.

Here! Have a fuckload of modern literature, too!

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

A Study In Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer

Bossypants - Tina Fey

Breakfast At Tiffany’s - Truman Capote

Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare

Damned - Chuck Palahniuk

Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay

Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris

Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card

Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Go The Fuck To Sleep - Adam Mansbach

I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert

I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore

Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

It - Stephen King

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov

Marked - Kristin Cast

Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden

My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

One Day - David Nicholls

Paper Towns - John Green

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief - Rick Riordan

Pretty Little Liars - Sara Shepard

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Snow White And The Huntsman - Lily Blake

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum

The Giver - Lois Lowry

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot

The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien

The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom

Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

Vampire Diaries: The Awakening - L.J. Smith

Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen

Wicked - Gregory Maguire

oldhollywood: The undersea ‘Realm of Glass’ set from The Thief...

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:15:30 -0600

oldhollywood:

The undersea ‘Realm of Glass’ set from The Thief of Bagdad (1924, dir. Raoul Walsh) Art direction by William Cameron Menzies.

To prepare the set for the underwater world, a family of artisans spent three months hand-blowing the required glass pieces.

(via)

nevver: Photos of the Year 2012, NatGeo

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:55:30 -0600

nevver:

Photos of the Year 2012, NatGeo

George, my husband… George, who is out somewhere there in the...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:13:52 -0600

George, my husband… George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. Yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: yes, this will do.

free-parking: Guy Laramee, A Caverna, 2012

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:49:16 -0600

free-parking:

Guy Laramee, A Caverna, 2012

peril: The Lady of Shalott (c. 1890-1905), oil on canvas |...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:44:31 -0600

peril:

The Lady of Shalott (c. 1890-1905), oil on canvas | artwork by William Holman Hunt

thatandycohen: wnycradiolab: theanimalblog: A featherless...

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:57:21 -0600

thatandycohen:

wnycradiolab:

theanimalblog:

A featherless chicken mid-stride. Taken by Tim Flach.

Where is your dog now?