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Pablo Picasso. Salomé, 1903

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The Hare With The Amber Eyes

Reading this book is a gift.

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Caine’s Arcade

A charming story of a brilliant little boy and dreams that come true. I dare you not to shed a little tear.

passionpassport:

A friend just posted this and I had to share it.

slaughterhouse90210:

“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. - une vidéo Arts

I guess this is the benefit of playing too many video games. Very clever animation here.

“The The Impotence of Proofreading,” by TAYLOR MALI 

This is very funny. Proof read your papers people!

A very entertaining and inspiring TED talk from the creator of the always amusing and wonderful  http://1000awesomethings.com/.

This takes the old adage to stop and smell the coffee/roses to a new level.

Vicente Amigo:Performing Live in Cordoba, Spain his piece “Callejon de la luna”.

Take a few minutes out of your day, sit back, close your eyes and soak it in.

firsttimeuser:

J.M. Basquiat by Evelyn Hofer

firsttimeuser:

Georges Dambier

some things never change..

This image has been created using police composite software by inserting the literary description Daisy. Amazing.

thecomposites:

Daisy Buchanan, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth…a conscientious expression…Slenderly, languidly…an expression of unthoughtful sadness…her cheeks flushed…she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society…a bright ecstatic smile…Aching, grieving beauty… For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery…Girls were swooning backward playfully into men’s arms, even into groups knowing that some one would arrest their falls—but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder. (Multiple suggestions)

Updated image: Reader Tessa Cramphorn points out that “autumn-leaf yellow of her hair” is in reference to Jordan Baker. Further, Tessa provides this line describing Daisy’s hair as “dark shining.”  Composites fact checker Emily Schultz believes there is a contradiction in Fitzgerald’s text regarding Daisy Buchanan’s hair, noting the passage where Daisy compares her own hair to her daughter’s “yellowy hair.”  

theatlantic:

A literary map of the UK. [Reddit]

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