June 2012
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Measure the walls. Count the ribs. Notch the long days.
Look up for blue sky...
– Things to do in the belly of a Whale by Dan Albergotti (via atomiclanterns)
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Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and...
It was 1963, and 16-year-old Bruce McAllister was sick of symbol-hunting in English class. Rather than quarrel with his teacher, he went straight to the source: McAllister mailed a crude, four-question survey to 150 novelists, asking if they intentionally planted symbolism in their work. Seventy-five authors responded. Click here for what they had to say.
John Green:
“If the point of...
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For us, the work of a fashion designer is very different from that of an artist....
– A Guide Issue #1; Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal; an interview by Marina Faust.
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Water the moon for me
Brush the teeth of my ladders for me.
Carry me in your...
– Jean Arp, “Cook me a Thunderbolt”, 1957, trans. Joachim Neugroschel
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They sit for hours on the ‘cafés’ warming their precious behinds, and talk...
– Frida Kahlo, Paris, France letter to Nickolas Muray, New York, N.Y., 1939 Feb. 16. Nickolas Muray papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.