(Source: fragiletimes, via daughterofhungryghosts)
christmas lights
Geez, that is a lot of notes.
i should probably do this with panda
thecatscan:
steve
we found loads of old photos the other day which i am now completely obsessed with - my sister and i in Bath a looong time ago
Poems by Emily Dickinson (332 of 447)
L.
POWER.
You cannot put a fire out;
A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
Upon the slowest night.
You cannot fold a flood
And put it in a drawer, —
Because the winds would find it out,
And tell your cedar floor.
‘Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she’d said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.’
— Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
this is the best thing i’ve seen in ages. i can’t read german very well but i got the general idea and it’s by a man called Dave Devries and so here’s the original website:
He tried to answer the question ‘what would a child’s drawing look like if it was painted realistically?’
he then collected children’s drawings of monsters and superheroes, traced them, and painted them as realistically as he could.
really good idea, and good inspiration for next project which i want to base on my childhood
Tom Phillips - A Humument
I’m finding it hard to read and follow the story, so instead of looking at it as a book I have been looking at each page as an individual piece of art.
Tom Phillips - A Humument
Phillips bought an old copy of a victorian book ‘A Human Document’ and worked over each page to create a whole new story. It’s very nice and beautiful. The lead character is called Bill Toge, so he can only be named in the story when there are words like ‘together’. He started working on it in the 1960’s and I think he’s still going; the books are constantly being reprinted after being revised and worked over again and again.
