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Neurons like galaxies
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What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”
“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.
”(Source: deliciates)
Tea nerdery in action—this afternoon’s tea, with some new arrivals! Newest additions are the ‘Nebulae’ cups by Petr Novak, paired with a ‘treebark’ teapot, also by Petr, and Oriental Beauty from Floating Leaves.
Just put up a bunch of images on my site that I took in Indiana. These are some of the ones that I am the most happy with and that I feel really and properly convey how I feel about my hometown and my most recent experience there. There are a ton more photos and I’m still sorting through everything, so expect to see more over the next few days (probably will do a major post on my blogspot or something).
aah ah making me homesick!
(Source: colliernoir)
“Young and Beautiful” by Lana del Rey
in The Great Gatsby
Writing about
the weaponization of nuclear fission is kind of a bummer. Hmm.
“Miniature topographies inside 200-gallon fish tanks, based on traditional landscape paintings. Keever fills the tanks with water once he’s sculpted and placed the miniatures, and colored lights and pigments create dense, atmospheric environments. He views his works as an evolution of the landscape tradition and deliberately acknowledges the conceptual artifice.”
David Maisel
‘Library of Dust’, 2005/06
Library of Dust, catalogues individual copper canisters containing the unclaimed remains of patients from the Oregon State Insane Asylum who died sometime between 1883 and the 1970s.
“Photography is a highly edited, subjective vision of the world, but the medium presents itself—and is often misused by photographers—as a form of objectivity. There is, of course, no way to make objective documentary work, and any attempt to do so is flawed, misleading and disingenuous. But the fact is that the motivation to make “documentary” work (or to work in that genre at all) often stems from the desire (although it may not be fully conscious) to present a specific vision of the world as objective fact. Not only is such a working method manipulative, it presumes a lack of agency and visual sophistication on the part of its viewer, who is asked to accept the photographer’s truth in its entirety.”
(via into-themild)
