"je.m'appelle.CLAUDE."

minimalist. food fanatic. quote-hoarder. call me francophile. brownie points to whoever figures out the title quote to this blog. gros bis, p

[the-fashionblogger]

[staceythinx]

Merci Louisette by Jean-François Fourtou 

[mrharristweed]

[observando]

Os Gemeos

[sixpenceee]

Some/One by Do-Ho Suh

This art piece is made out of  30,000 dog tags. Korean Artist Do-Ho Sun explores the dehumanization of a soldiers role in society. (More Information)

[gq]

What to Wear Today: A patterned suit and saddle shoes for spring weddings.

See more outfits for May here. 

[observando]

Fear is the mind-killer.

Frank Herbert (via observando)

[penamerican]

“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.” ― Anthony Marra

See Marra tonight at PEN World Voices Festival http://bit.ly/1LAaCA1

[sixpenceee]

Chen Wenling’s sculpture shows a bull, meant to represent Wall Street, seen ramming the biggest con man of all time, Bernie Madoff, into a wall. The huge cloud coming out of the bull’s rear not only refers to the end of a greedy era, but also symbolizes the danger of virtual bubbles in international financial markets.

[sixpenceee]

Emergence

Sayaka Kajita Ganz created these wild horse sculptures from trash-picked objects like plastic utensils, toys, and metals. She says, “By building these sculptures I try to understand the human relationships that surround me. It is a way for me to contemplate and remind myself that even if there is conflict right now, there is a way for all the pieces to fit together.”

[visual-poetry]

»edit« by peter downsbrough (+)

[via barbara krakow gallery, gallery on tumblr]

[sixpenceee]

Post-Mortem casts of face and hands of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by famed sculptor Sergey Merkurov.

[sixpenceee]

Body cast of a victim of the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD.

(Source)

[hitrecordjoe]

“you asked me for space”

[suubanonna-deactivated20130822]

[everythingisjustpeachy]

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

and this is what the western news doesn’t show. Educated and Covered Muslim women are unimaginable for them.

This is so important. 

[everythingisjustpeachy]

I like fuzzy succulents. #workplant #plectranthusamboinicus (at University of San Francisco)

[sixpenceee]

Photographer Alex Cornell captures rare pictures of an upside down ice burg.