terenadawn

• 2013-05-24

  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness

  — Maya Angelou  (via soooothisisawkward)

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  Source: inspiration4good

• 2013-05-17

  

  explore-blog:

  In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the false division between “high” and “low” culture, critic Greil Marcus adds to history’s finest definitions of art.

  (via wildcat2030)

  Source: explore-blog

• 2013-05-13

  tentative plans

  brightlightsloudnoises:

  if I wind up
  married to some
  stuck up 
  bitch
  with
  no sense of humor
  that never
  bites her
  nails
  and 
  uses the parking brake

  if you call me up
  I will
  clear my schedule
  for you,
  I’ll pull on my sneakers
  at 3 AM
  and
  dig up a couple of old songs,

  I’ll slide out of the city
  like I was never even 
  there

  Source: brightlightsloudnoises

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  you never call me sober

  brightlightsloudnoises:

  with the first drink of
  wine
  I can feel love creeping in,
  I can feel my
  mind losing its grip,
  I can feel another heartbeat,
  a better heartbeat 
  from beneath
  my feet,

  I feel your hand
  or its ghost,
  sympathetic,
  naive,
  and
  steady—

  I feel you across
  the miles and
  years.

  I feel
  better
  and a
  little
  worse.

  Source: brightlightsloudnoises

• 2013-05-09

  wildcat2030:

  Try to explain any philosophical “ism” to your friend or colleague. Unless you’re both scholars, you probably can’t do so easily. London-based graphic designer Genís Carreras wants to make it easier for us to talk philosophy, so he’s removing words all together and replacing them with pictures in his postcard and book project Philographics.

  Carreras takes larger-than-life ideas and visualizes them, reducing the coursework of collegiate studies into basic colors and shapes. What’s left are minimal yet clever illustrations, like two overlapping circles (dualism), two different colored heart shapes on a yellow background (existentialism), and layered blue circles with a white dot in the middle (deductionism), that help your brain fill in the rest of the concept after reading the short description.

  Philographics started out with 26 posters and has since grown to 95 designs and a highly funded Kickstarter campaign that still has two weeks until its end. His first illustration was for determinism, done when he had the idea to show the theory using cascading dominoes. That sparked the idea to make the project into a journal to explain philosophy to a younger, more visually literate audience. While Carreras is a philosophy buff, he realizes many people now see the theories as archaic ideas only uttered in lecture halls.

  “I wanted to make philosophy look better, to feel more contemporary and relevant,” Carreras says. “For me shapes and colors are a way to communicate, a way that can break through language and age barriers. As a graphic designer, this is the only way I knew.” (via Explaining Complicated Philosophies With Gorgeously Simple Postcards | Wired Design | Wired.com)

  Source: Wired

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  treeporn:

  Sarah Dexter

  http://whaaatsarahsaid.tumblr.com/

  Source: treeporn

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  kateoplis:

  Grace Kim

  (via itsfullofstars)

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  spaces

  brightlightsloudnoises:

  i love the spaces
  between words,
  the white gaps
  that keep the
  letters apart

  they sit there
  drunk
  and
  patient

  and they
  don’t
  try to sell you
  shit

  Source: brightlightsloudnoises

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  wildcat2030:

  Hoping to give new meaning to the term “natural light,” a small group of biotechnology hobbyists and entrepreneurs has started a project to develop plants that glow, potentially leading the way for trees that can replace electric streetlamps and potted flowers luminous enough to read by.

  The project, which will use a sophisticated form of genetic engineering called synthetic biology, is attracting attention not only for its audacious goal, but for how it is being carried out.

  Rather than being the work of a corporation or an academic laboratory, it will be done by a small group of hobbyist scientists in one of the growing number of communal laboratories springing up around the nation as biotechnology becomes cheap enough to give rise to a do-it-yourself movement.

  The project is also being financed in a D.I.Y. sort of way: It has attracted more than $250,000 in pledges from about 4,500 donors in about two weeks on the Web site Kickstarter. (via A Dream of Glowing Trees Is Assailed for Gene-Tinkering - NYTimes.com)

  Source: The New York Times