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laughingsquid: Life-Size ‘Star Wars’ X-Wing Fighter Built Out...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:30:26 -0500

laughingsquid:

Life-Size ‘Star Wars’ X-Wing Fighter Built Out of 5 Million LEGO Bricks

harbor (the conversation)

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:55:41 -0500

By Nick Flynn

If this bowl is always empty

If it breathes if it’s lung

If a horse can rise from the ashes

Saul was a sailor on the boat to Damascus

He did not know what he was

Paul turned to a voice it rose up from the waves

It chained his boat to the darkness

A man finds ash & he makes it a man

A horse finds ash in a horse

It lifts us it holds us it breaks us again

Scatter him into the harbor

"It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid..."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:32:27 -0600

“It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life-not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”

- Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes”

Who Valentines

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:31:15 -0600

Who Valentines

Harald Sohlberg, “Winter Night in the Mountains” (1918-1924) ...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:05:10 -0600

Harald Sohlberg, “Winter Night in the Mountains” (1918-1924)

Acquainted with the Night

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain — and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-by;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.

Robert Frost, West-Running Brook (1928).

(via)

I Give a Convincing Sermon

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:55:00 -0500

by Melissa Broder

I give a convincing sermon. I say The body
is a coat. It is a very dark and heavy coat
but worthless. Mother Mary nods from the pews.
If I give Mary all my atoms she will plant them
in a garden where ripened women relinquish
their bones to make room for littler women.
It is dangerous to grow accustomed to a garden.
Just when the flowers soften you, they disappear.
Then you are a weepy fern among skyscrapers.
I don’t want my soul exposed like that.
Neither can you make a garden stay. Don’t even try.
Every plot becomes a dark city over time.
I have collected many dark ideas over time.
I have so many ideas they are a second coat.

Pooh Wars

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:23:36 -0500

Pooh Wars

laughingsquid: Swing Table, A Table With 8 Suspended Chairs

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:23:05 -0500

laughingsquid:

Swing Table, A Table With 8 Suspended Chairs

Elegy in X Parts [Kafka said, A book]

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:22:05 -0500

by Matt Rasmussen

Kafka said, A book
must be an axe

for the frozen sea
inside us, which sounds

great, but what good
is an axe against

a frozen sea?
Perhaps this is why

he said, while dying,
Destroy everything.

There is little comfort
in knowing there

are worse undertakings
than killing yourself.

Is it dangerous
to say these things?

I don’t think so.
Or I do. Either way,

don’t believe me.
There is no refuge

from yourself.

Photo

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:28:55 -0500

rachael-maddux: Cake With Giants | Birds of Australia

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:27:03 -0500

rachael-maddux:

Cake With Giants | Birds of Australia

Photo

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:00:55 -0500

Photo

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:06:16 -0500

laughingsquid: Sketchbooks of the Pros

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:51:47 -0500

laughingsquid:

Sketchbooks of the Pros

laughingsquid: Composite Then and Now Photos of the 1906 San...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:37:22 -0500

laughingsquid:

Composite Then and Now Photos of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Photo

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:51:46 -0500

"The biological object is made of time as much as it is made of space and matter."

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:17:15 -0500

“The biological object is made of time as much as it is made of space and matter.”

- Terence McKenna

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you..."

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:12:12 -0500

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.”

- Lemony Snicket (via kari-shma)

DanteCyberMan

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:37:39 -0500

DanteCyberMan

"Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert. There is always one..."

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:31:47 -0500

“Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert. There is always one person at the table who holds up her hand when I serve the cake. No, really, I couldn’t she says, and then gives her flat stomach a conspiratorial little pat. Everyone who is pressing a fork into that first tender layer looks at the person who declined the plate, and they all think, That person is better than I am. That person has discipline. But that isn’t a person with discipline; that is a person who has completely lost touch with joy. A slice of cake never made anybody fat. You don’t eat the whole cake. You don’t eat a cake every day of your life. You take the cake when it is offered because the cake is delicious. You have a slice of cake and what it reminds you of is someplace that’s safe, uncomplicated, without stress. A cake is a party, a birthday, a wedding. A cake is what’s served on the happiest days of your life. This is a story of how my life was saved by cake, so, of course, if sides are to be taken, I will always take the side of cake.”

- Jeanne Ray (via shetakesflight)