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May 20

This is what Amsterdam would look like during my benevolent dictatorship — I’d banish cars and taxis from the city center. 

weepling:

morning mood, reguliersgracht, Amsterdam, 1946
photo by Dirk de Herder, from Amsterdam, city of Rembrandt

(Source: m3zzaluna, via leprintemps)

Little House, by Phoebe Wahl

fette:

Left, photograph by Emma Arvida Bystrom, from the series There Will Be Blood, for Vice Magazine, May 2012. Via. Right, scan of a page from the book Kodachrome, by Luigi Ghirri,  published by Punto e Virgola, 1978. Via. More spreads here.

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In Arab popular traditions, there’s a belief that if a manuscript were to be submerged in water and its ink were to dissolve, drinking the water would transform the knowledge contained in that manuscript into the body of the drinker and become part of the body’s system.

Anton Shammas, The Drowned Library. Via.

May 16

via merlin : brats | chained and perfumed

pkam:

Hope Gangloff

(Source: the-unnamable, via leprintemps)

Apr 30

Apr 23

Nieuwendammerdijk, Amsterdam-North (and my dear old bike)

Curves in the flat fields north of Amsterdam

Mosque in Amsterdam-North

Apr 18

From the cover of “In Search of Scotland” by H.V. Morton, but it reminds me of Southeast Asia.