Verano Viajando

We missed the sunrise…that would have been nice.

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:38:36 -0400

We missed the sunrise…that would have been nice.

Jay Z and J.T. Too many J’s in suits for this girl to...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:56:00 -0500

Jay Z and J.T. Too many J’s in suits for this girl to handle…lawd.

life: A welder at a boat-and-sub-building yard adjusts her...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:44:02 -0500

life:

A welder at a boat-and-sub-building yard adjusts her goggles before resuming work, October, 1943. By 1945, women comprised well over a third of the civilian labor force (in 1940, it was closer to a quarter) and millions of those jobs were filled in factories: building bombers, manufacturing munitions, welding, drilling and riveting for the war effort.

See more photos here.

bohemea: Marie Antoinette

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:00:36 -0500

bohemea:

Marie Antoinette

Celebrity Portraiture It is an important step in the...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:00:51 -0500

Celebrity Portraiture

It is an important step in the artist’s journey— one in which space and color and line and dimension are confounding, and at times irritating. This is the point in the process where your hands can’t, or won’t, create the vision in your mind- the muscles and tendons fight amongst themselves to move fluidly, warring against the lines your brain is trying so hard to communicate. The tools to make that vision bleed onto the paper aren’t yet at your disposal, so you settle for your off-kilter version of reality.

But your quirky reality is still valuable.

Rawr. heybeast12: 365 Critters - Day 206 - Lion Man - Darci -...

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:00:27 -0500

Rawr.

heybeast12:

365 Critters - Day 206 - Lion Man - Darci - Norman, OK

Follow this project on Hey Beast Studio’s Facebook.

fuckyeahbookarts: DIY Book Headboard

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:00:43 -0500

fuckyeahbookarts:

DIY Book Headboard

I love this.

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:00:30 -0400

I love this.

Photo

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:00:48 -0400

Photo

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:00:30 -0400

Christian Dior 2007 Spring Collection

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:00:57 -0400

Christian Dior 2007 Spring Collection

miscons-trued: Hello my charming little follower. It’s the...

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:15:36 -0400

miscons-trued:

Hello my charming little follower. It’s the moment you might have been waiting for; a giveaway from me~ I thought it would be nice to pick up a few things from work to give out to a lucky winner from my blog. I put a lot of thought into picking these items, just for the versatility of them.

The items are as follows:
- A Strathmore sketch paper book. 100 pages!
- A copy of the novel Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- A 25$ giftcard for Starbucks coffee
- A bundle of PIGMA Micron pens
                - 005 | 0.20 mm
                - 01 | 0.25 mm
                - 03 | 0.35 mm
                - 05 | 0.45 mm

The winner will also get a surprise notecard made by me and a tiny thank you gift. Before you enter, here are some of the rules that are quite necessary for this giveaway:

{1} You don’t have to follow my blog, although, it would be nice that you did. It’d be a lot easier to track.
{2} You may only entry the giveaway once. If you reblog this post more than once, it will not boost your chance in winning.
{3} Absolutely no likes. Only reblogs are allowed.

This giveaway ends on November 12th at 4pm {PST}. The lucky winner will be chosen from a random generator. Good luck to you all!

jacobvanloon: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (Russia) |...

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:51:02 -0400

jacobvanloon:

Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (Russia) | Early 20th century color photography

top: Armenian Woman c. 1910
bottom: Dinner During Haying 1909

Free Online Education is Now Illegal in Minnesota

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:26:05 -0400

Free Online Education is Now Illegal in Minnesota:

I love it when our governments make education illegal. It is just so….American.

myimaginarybrooklyn:

world-shaker:

That wasn’t an earthquake. Just the sound of an entire state taking one big step backward.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the state has decided to crack down on free education, notifying California-based startup Coursera that it is not allowed to offer its online courses to the state’s residents. Coursera, founded by Stanford computer science professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, partners with top-tier universities around the world to offer certain classes online for free to anyone who wants to take them. You know, unless they happen to be from Minnesota.

A policy analyst for the state’s Office of Higher Education told The Chronicle that Minnesota is simply enforcing a longstanding state law requiring colleges to get the government’s permission to offer instruction within its borders. She couldn’t say whether other online education startups like edX and Udacity were also told to stay out.

Breast Feeding at the Blue Mosque By Ravi Shankar Hidden from a...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:29:29 -0400

Breast Feeding at the Blue Mosque

By Ravi Shankar

Hidden from a queue to bag shoes a woman nurses a child
under a wool scarf in the shadow two fluted minarets cast
pitched towards incessant sun, a necessity somehow an insult
to sharia law, no matter what sustenance a lemonwedge
of breast, God’s own, yields, puckering a tiny mouth
until bright eyes glaze to doll loll. Fairly alien to ponder
raw biology of milk conveyed by ducts lined with capillaries,
made from pouring stuff of stars: nourishment that manifests
minerals for bone from pulsing light.
Too close to the slickheat pushing out
between the legs of nearly every woman not your wife
but her as well? How could it be that her very being derives
solely from her relation to you, that she could have no value
in the calculus but to function as temptation, or its dome-
blue corollary, disappointment? No cover covers up
those integers holding the place of zeroes, Iznik tiles or after-
life virgins. Ostrich eggs on chandeliers don’t dissuade spiders.
If the fear of the Lord is not the beginning of our wisdom,
then La ilah ha il Allah is a breast in a mouth, else nothing is.

Source for the poem: The Chronicle

Source for the art

Tiger by Alec Derwent Hope At noon thepaper tigers roar —...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:59:26 -0400

Tiger by Alec Derwent Hope

At noon thepaper tigers roar
— Miroslav Holub

The paper tigers roar at noon;
The sun is hot, the sun is high.
They roar in chorus, not in tune,
Their plaintive, savage hunting cry.

O, when you hear them, stop your ears
And clench your lids and bite your tongue.
The harmless paper tiger bears
Strong fascination for the young.

His forest is the busy street;
His dens the forum and the mart;
He drinks no blood, he tastes no meat:
He riddles and corrupts the heart.

But when the dusk begins to creep
From tree to tree, from door to door,
The jungle tiger wakes from sleep
And utters his authentic roar.

It bursts the night and shakes the stars
Till one breaks blazing from the sky;
Then listen! If to meet it soars
Your heart’s reverberating cry,

My child, then put aside your fear:
Unbar the door and walk outside!
The real tiger waits you there;
His golden eyes shall be your guide.

And, should he spare you in his wrath,
The world and all the worlds are yours;
And should he leap thejungle path
And clasp you with his bloody jaws,

Then say, as his divine embrace
Destroys the mortal parts of you:
I too am of that royal race
Who do what we are born to do.

The Lilies Whisper PoetryPoem by: Deborah Amar A summer day can...

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:22:39 -0400

The Lilies Whisper Poetry
Poem by: Deborah Amar

A summer day can never end
Or so it seems each year
The longer cycles of the sun
Make cloudy skies seem clear

Each time the wind begins to chime,
And end begins to near
A whisper of the softest sort
Flows gently to the ear

The scent and sight enough are great
Yet lilies live for more
The lilies whisper poetry
As none have heard before

The lilies whisper to the day
That sends the breeze below
It touches ground that none can see
Where lilies lively grow

Beautifully arrayed in white
And drinking from the soil
Free to whisper their poetry
Without the need to toil

But flowers do not last the year
And newer buds must bloom
So short the span of lily life
To give new blossoms room

The lilies whisper poetry
That none shall ever know
For just as summer cannot last
The lilies cease to grow

But beauty lives from that which dies
And leaves something to last
For lilies whisper poetry
For lilies of the past

Russian Surrealistts, Part 1 Wassilij Milioti.

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:50:26 -0400

Russian Surrealistts, Part 1

Wassilij Milioti.

Painstaking Life, 2012. Source: ohchloe

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:50:27 -0400

Painstaking Life, 2012.

Source: ohchloe

just approached in a coffee shop while reading ‘Crime and Punishment’.Opening line:...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:54:38 -0400

just approached in a coffee shop while reading ‘Crime and Punishment’.

Opening line: “Are you a member of the Petrashevsky Circle, because you’re giving me cardiac arrest.”

Dostoevsky references = Definitely getting my number.