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artgalleryofontario: Toronto Victory Garden, c. 1937Pegi Nicol...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:35:08 +0200

Toronto Victory Garden, c. 1937
Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian, 1904 - 1949
Watercolour on paper mounted on card
Overall: 37.2 x 27.7 cm
Gift of Mrs. L. Marguerite Vaughan, Toronto, 1983
© 2013 Art Gallery of Ontario

saisonlune: marco guerra

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:01:33 +0200

saisonlune:

marco guerra

artgalleryofontario: Mount Goodsir, Yoho Park, 1925 J.E.H....

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:07:55 +0200

artgalleryofontario:

Mount Goodsir, Yoho Park, 1925
J.E.H. MacDonald (Canadian, 1873 - 1932)
Painting, oil on canvas, 107.3 x 122.3 cm
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Max Stern, Dominion Gallery, Montreal, 1979

simena: CLEMENT SERVEAU

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:04:08 +0200

simena:

CLEMENT SERVEAU

nomadic-alternative: Hohhot, Mongolia — Airuna sitting at home...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:11:12 +0200

nomadic-alternative:

Hohhot, Mongolia — Airuna sitting at home under a large picture of Gengghis Khan. She is an ethnic Mongolian. ”When I was a girl I spent a lot of time in the countryside with my grandparents. They were herders, and I would spend months on the grasslands grazing the animals.” Recently the government has forbidden animal herding in the part of Inner Mongolia where Airuna grew up in order to leave the land open for mining. Many Mongolians, including her relatives, have lost their livelihood and have found themselves forcefully parted from their millennia old way of life. Inner Mongolia is now overwhelmingly populated by Han Chinese migrants, and the government takes little account of the interests of the indigenous Mongolians. ”I feel like a guest in my own home,” said Airuna.

"But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:56:56 +0200

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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.

We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

”

- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via beccap)

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Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:54:53 +0200

Philip Roth on the beauty of naps SIMON: Is there something you’re taking more time for now...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:27:34 +0200

Philip Roth on the beauty of naps

SIMON: Is there something you’re taking more time for now that…

ROTH: Yeah, naps. Let me tell you about the nap. It’s absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man. And he said - I was maybe nine - he said, Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off and put a blanket over you and you’re going to sleep better. Well, as with everything, he was right. And so I now do that and I come back from the swimming pool I go to and I have my lunch and I read the paper and I take this glorious thing called a nap. And then the best part of it is that when you wake up, for the first 15 seconds you have no idea where you are. You’re just alive. That’s all you know and it’s bliss. It’s absolute bliss. So, I suggest - you’re still working but your time will come.

SIMON: That sounds like great advice.

ROTH: And take your clothes off.

Piotr Ivanovich Vedenisov: Sofia Andreyevna Kozakov, YaIta,...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:57:41 +0200

Piotr Ivanovich Vedenisov: Sofia Andreyevna Kozakov, YaIta, 1914, Autochrome reproduction on plexiglas

Kolia Kozakov and the dog Gipsy. Yalta, 1910-1911 Autochrome...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:55:03 +0200

Kolia Kozakov and the dog Gipsy. Yalta, 1910-1911 Autochrome reproduction on plexiglas

Tania, Natasha, Kolia and Liza Kozakov, Vera Nikolayevna...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:48:03 +0200

Tania, Natasha, Kolia and Liza Kozakov, Vera Nikolayevna Vedenisov and Elena Frantsevna Bazilev. Yalta, 1910-1911 Autochrome reproduction on plexiglas

jesuisperdu: streetleveljapan: John Divola, “As Far As I Could...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:18:38 +0100

jesuisperdu:

streetleveljapan:

John Divola, “As Far As I Could Get” (1996)

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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 02:25:00 +0100

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Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:47:58 +0100

#valladolid

kateoplis: From the bromeliads, ferns, and orchids that cover a...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:54:44 +0100

kateoplis:

From the bromeliads, ferns, and orchids that cover a kapok tree 160 feet above the forest floor to the jaguars that prowl below, Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park is home to countless plant and animal species. All of them now face threats from oil development.

Rain Forest for Sale: Demand for oil is squeezing the life out of one of the world’s wildest places | NG

schoolofvisualarts: Cover of Tall Poppy Syndrome by Amy Stein...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:54:24 +0100

schoolofvisualarts:

Cover of Tall Poppy Syndrome by Amy Stein & Stacy Arezou Mehrfar

nedison: Rabbit - Run Wrake, dir. (2005) Just found out that...

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:35:52 +0100

nedison:

Rabbit - Run Wrake, dir. (2005)

Just found out that Run Wrake died on Sunday. He was only 47.

Watch this if you haven’t seen it, it’s guaranteed to shake you up.

1965-2012

via nytimes

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:39:00 +0100

via nytimes

ninastotler: My most persistent truth. dnatheshop: I MISS MY...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:19:24 +0200

ninastotler:

My most persistent truth.

dnatheshop:

I MISS MY PRE-INTERNET BRAIN.

To live content with small means — to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:58:49 +0200

To live content with small means — to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich — to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart — to bear all cheerfully — do all bravely, await occasions — never hurry; in a word, to let the spiritual unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

— William Ellery Channing

via Simply Lovely