The Joys of Blue Eyes

nevver:

Happy Graduation

woodendreams:

(by Dene Miles)

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366coolthings:

#104 - Where is the cool?

ruudbaan:

Fe’ 2012

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skyscraper:

Burj Khalifa, Dubai

via whereisthecoool

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nevver:

David Lynch

oneweekoneband:

Alright, so, High Violet:

The National’s fifth album came out in May 2010 and, other than to play “Terrible Love” a couple of times on my radio show, I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention. I’m not even sure I listened to the whole thing through until the beginning of July, when I took a bus from Washington DC, where I was living for the summer, to New York, to visit some friends. 

All told, I must have listened to it six times, end to end. It’s a beautiful album and, like Boxer, a natural evolution from what came before. It continues that album’s move toward’s precision and, interestingly, puts it in a much bigger seeming space, an effect I think is mostly achieved through the use of reverb. Lyrically, too, its a kind of progression, although, unfortunately, a sort of vaguely concerning one, since it ramps up the lowered expectations of Boxer until what’s left is regret and the long look back. 

Of course, more than a year since I had given up Alligator, that sort perspective was my perspective. The National had, again, sort of come to me where I was. 

If there’s a moral to this story, that’s it, I think: The National always seem to find me where I am. I don’t know if that’s coincidence, or if the sort of emotional ephemera that their later records bleed resonates for many people, I’m just one guy, but I suspect its the latter, because The National make us feel feelings, as one of my friends put it this week, and they do it with such grace and ambition that everyone has a way in.

visual-poetry:

“every word unmade” by fiona banner

startwithaseed:

Serrano plant on Flickr.

Look who has flowers on her 2 year old pepper plant! I’m absolutely beaming! If you remember last year, I just never got around to pulling it up and when I saw peppers on it, left it in the ground.

When we moved in October, I risked pulling it up and potting it, just to see. I got peppers from it until December. Got a few more tiny peppers in March, due to our summery winter. Now, it’s full of leaves and flowers again.

Flowers :)

woodendreams:

(by BraCom (Bram))

proustitute:

Adolf Fassbender, Just Drifting, 1939

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ecocides:

An adult Cape gannet (Morus capensis) has a wingspan of almost 2 metres and can hit the water at up to 75mph | image by Thomas P Peschak/Save our Seas