December 2008
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Never go to art school. Never go to New York. Never rent a loft. Dump your font folder. Forget symmetry and colour coordination. Stop taking text from editorials that you don’t read and packaging it in eye-catching ways. Walk away from your computer. Then take off. Go to India, rural China, Rio, Caracas, Belize. Mingle with the filthy rich and the dirt poor. Dig up all of the roots of...
Dec 30th
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Animal Portraits by Sharon Montrose (Etsy) →
This vulture one is a personal favourite, too.
Dec 30th
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“Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if...”
– Kafka
Dec 30th
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The Magical Loaf Studio →
Like Build-A-Bear, except with vegan loaves.
Dec 30th
26th December 2004
“Under the windings of the seaThey lying long shall not die windily” “No more may gulls cry at their earsOr waves break loud on the seashores” And Death Shall Have No DominionDylan Thomas
Dec 26th
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Happy Birthday, Earthrise! →
Dec 24th
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ListenListen
Dec 21st
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Fuck You, Penguin →
A blog where the writer tells cute animals ‘what’s what’.
Dec 21st
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Man's £5 debt repaid 39 years later →
“… man who lent a penniless Australian tourist £5 … in 1969 has been repaid his debt nearly 40 years later.”
Dec 19th
“Men always want to be a woman’s first love; women have a more subtle...”
– Oscar Wilde
Dec 19th
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50 Strange Buildings of the World →
Pictured above: Kansas City Public Library They included the Nautilus House! See a photo of the spacey-Chocolate Factory interior here.
Dec 16th
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Romantic comedies ruin your love-life. →
Dec 16th
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“Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of...”
– (via reginewilldoodle)
Dec 13th
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Full moon closer to Earth tonight! →
Dec 12th
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“My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the ‘depth’ that...”
– George Grosz
Dec 12th
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Atlas of True Names →
One of the world and one of Europe, showing what the names of places mean! Zimbabwe is ‘House of Stones’, Miami is ‘Greatwater’ and Hong Kong is ‘Fragrant Port’.
Dec 5th
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“… it is time to admit that the pain he feels in being human is not because...”
– Introduction to Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’, David Wyatt
Dec 5th
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70's Rock Musicians & Their Parents' Homes →
(above: Eric Clapton with his grandma Rose)
Dec 1st
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Brazil to reduce deforestation by 70% →
Dec 1st
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“Truth - Beauty - Freedom - Love”
– Moulin Rouge (film)
Dec 1st