[jisuto]

[zakumipink]

[sunotes]

Edward Steed

[mysharona1987]

[ferrralit]

[radical-revolution]

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you think. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, difficult as it is...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

[dozydawn]

WGM Petra Papp.

[dozydawn]

“Albina Ysmailova lightens up any chess tournament with her presence. This passionate player has a chess-themed prosthetic hand that she made herself.”

Photographed by David Llada.

[dozydawn]

muhammad fatchurofi

[chesscoven]

the ppl at the supermarket in Baltimore were not fucking with this look

[dozydawn]

Grandmaster Lei Tingjie.

[feralchaton]

“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and toward the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to its transforming power. Art is not part of the machine. Art asks us to think differently, see differently, hear differently, and ultimately to act differently, which is why art has moral force.”

— Jeanette Winterson (Winterson, 2006)

[dozydawn]

Grandmaster Humpy Koneru.

[fairlycaught]

The reason that focus groups and capitalist feedback systems fail, even when they generate commodities that are immensely popular, is that people do not know what they want. This is not only because people’s desire is already present but concealed from them (although this is often the case). Rather, the most powerful forms of desire are precisely cravings for the strange, the unexpected, the weird. These can only be supplied by artists and media professionals who are prepared to give people something different from that which already satisfies them; by those, that is to say, prepared to take a certain kind of risk.

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

[unconditionedconsciousness]

“Willing to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere; Turning to face my fear, I meet the warrior who lives within; Opening to my loss, I am given unimaginable gifts; Surrendering into emptiness, I find fullness without end. Each condition I flee from pursues me. Each condition I welcome transforms me And becomes itself transformed…”

— Jennifer Welwood (via panchakshara)

[funstealer]

“Healing Grotto” by Cindy Baedman

[chesscoven]

I want to live in the healing grotto

[cosmonautroger]

Milton Glaser, Therapy With A Tomato, 1978