it is what it is

who even cares anymore? (cis: she/her)

[champsypants]

SHEDD // 10.01.18

[tylerknott]

“Do you know what aches? Does it follow you to sleep? Can I soothe it now?”

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

[visual-poetry]

»grab ’em by the ballots« by zoë buckman

[via]

photograph: lightwork / for freedoms

[escapekit]

Great Big Story

UK-based photographer Reuben Wu has made a name for himself with his unique images that combine lighted drone patterns with stark observations of natural land formations. Two months ago, Wu travelled to Peru to continue his body of work called Lux Noctis. Peru’s Pastoruri Glacier is a rare remaining tropical glacier, sited at 17,000 feet above sea level in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range.

[buttonpoetry]

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[newyorker]

For more cartoons from The New Yorker, follow us on Instagram: @newyorkercartoons.

[newyorker]

How to Write About a Vanishing World

Scientists chronicling ecological destruction must confront the loss of their life’s work and our planet’s riches.

The losses on our human-dominated planet keep coming, and so, too, do the stories. These days, it’s not just species that are vanishing. Entire features of the earth are disappearing—thus, the latest batch of “witness-to” books, written by geologists.

[eucalyptia]

[mrjandpuddin]

My Neighbor Totoro (1988) dir. Hayao Miyazaki Totoro, I beg you, please protect Mei. She’ll be lost, and probably scared. Please believe me, I’ll be good for the rest of my life if I can just see her again.

[zestydoesthings]

The results of the first Creature Feature stream! I had a lot of fun designing Owlbears of various shapes and species. Cheers to @FabooGu for the idea! #CreatureFeature

[mydarkenedeyes]

Bjørg-Elise Tuppen - Blue Melancholia (2016)

[whiskey-loner]

[mydarkenedeyes]

Sebastián Velasco

[archatlas]

Earth Box Equipo by de Arquitectura

Resolving the basic equation of materializing the desires through a limited budget, we started the process of building an architecture office. The exercise starts with the experimental process of use and transformation of available and recovered materials, such as land, recycled glass and formwork wood, configuring them between two existing trees: the sneak, which is outside but framed, and the guavirá that is located in the middle of space to keep us company.

The rammed earth walls of 0.30 support the weight of the slab, which rests on 20 cm of the wall, without any anchoring or mooring, taking advantage of the structural qualities of the material. The remaining 10 cm remain outside, to hide the slab, delimiting the exterior only with the walls. All the furniture and doors are from the phenolic plates that were used in the formwork of the slab. The library is detached from the walls so that the light continues its trajectory, suspending the books and paintings, precious treasures in the office.

[buttonpoetry]

“I am always amazed at the ability to forget history is a choice for some people.”

— Ariana Brown, “Volver, Volver”

[rusticstyle]

“I found a silence in the mountains that spoke volumes to my soul and words I’d never been able to say out loud.”

— Frankie Ryott, deardeceiver. (via deardeceiver)

[champsypants]

Do you hit on someone after they tell you they're in a relationship? Do you leave and come back so you can be alone with them and hit on them some more while they tell you goodnight over and over? Do you hit on someone who is in a sales position and feels obligated to be kind to you instead of as direct as they'd like -- and continue hitting on them after multiple attempts to keep a customer service demeanor while denying you? Do you go back the next day and get told off by a different employee who is not working alone and worries less about their safety? And then do you follow a woman whome you've never met for two and a half blocks yelling about the shop girl who told you off to the point that the stranger calls the shop out of concern based on what you were up saying? And do you then go back THE NEXT DAY to be told your business isn't welcome there anymore by yet another shop girl and then talk about how you go shooting with police so you're fine with it if they call the cops on you? What do you do from there? When you have the card of the girl you hit on, and you know where she normally works because that first encounter was a fluke. What do you do with that card?

You don't go find her.

Because I know what you look like, what you drive, and where you live.