The Blackest Crow

The blackest crow that ever did flew, shall surely turn to white.

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I tried to draw my soul but all I could think of was flowers.

 Natalya Lobanova (via shinkikker)

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I reblog the dumbest shit when i'm drunk. come on matt

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endings

in every story there is a beginning and an ending. at the start we tend to feel excited, fearsome and anticipate what the future is going to hold. every adventure, every failure and every glorious triumph is all just squished between two key points of time; the time the trigger is pulled and you cross the starting line, and the point where you run through the ribbon at the finish line. we've all heard the cliche "maybe the journey is the destination?" But what happens when you hit that point of no return? What happens when the destination you reach has consumed you and and there is no longer any room to move forward? 

Life has a way of fucking with your emotions and the way you view different points of reality. The sad thing is that it takes some huge horrific event(s) to really think about how you place in this race between start and finish. Sometimes you find out that you made it across the finish and are content with the ending you created. Or maybe you are still on the last 100 meters just trying to catch up with the fat bench warmer who is five noses in front of you. Honestly though, the best part is just being in the race, because once you cross the finish, your done. 

Dont ever finish, just enjoy this shit-hole world we live on until the ref upstairs has to rip you off the track. 

[bothkindsofmusic]

Willie Nelson though the years. 

Happy 80th Birthday Willie. We love you!

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Legends of the Blues by William Stout

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So great!

[jimherrington]

Happy 80th birthday to Willie Nelson!

Here’s a photo I shot of him in the San Bernardino Mountains, east of Los Angeles, in June, 2004.

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Jim also shot the photo at the very top of the “through the years” post from earlier today.

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College Radio Countdown Pick-o-da-day from KUMD University of Minnesota-Duluth:

Charlie Parr  South of Austin, North of Lyle

This is some Dock Boggs level banjo awesomeness.

Watch KUMD’s Top 10 music videos all week on mtvU and mtvU.com

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New England, 1894

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just acquired this Civil War-era carte de visite of a Union soldier (shown here with verso). It will be included in the exhibition “Photography and the American Civil War,” which opens Tuesday at the Met. 

The exhibition, and the accompanying catalogue, survey photography of and related to the war between the states, including battlefield daguerreotypes, post-battle scenes and intense pictures of the dead and wounded. Jeff Rosenheim, the curator of the exhibition and the author of the book that accompanies it, is the lead guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast.

How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

Image: Unknown photographer, Sergeant Alex Rogers with Battle Flag, Eighty-Third Pennsylvania Volunteers, Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, ca. 1863. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.