My heart burns there, too

less is a bore

[nemfrog]

Zoo animal pictograms. National Zoo Pamphlet, Washington, D. C. 1978. Detail.

Library of Congress

[robogrind]

love the word fruitless. arguing with you is like if there was no apples involved whatsoever

[robogrind]

you're bountiless you stupid bitch

[thirdity]

“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”

— Henry Miller, Henry Miller on Writing

[nemfrog]

Earthquake safety booklet distributed to Apple employees, cover. 1986.

Internet Archive

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

Clarice Lispecto

[wifegideonnav]

gonna be honest i don’t know how many more ‘enter the 6 digit code we sent to your phone’s i got left in me

[theleoisallinthemind]

Most of my career I’ve built visual worlds that weren’t mine.

Not because I had no eye. Because that’s the actual job.

There’s a moment that happens in almost every creative relationship. You’re looking at a reference that feels exactly right and you feel the room resist it. Not always in words. Sometimes just in the quality of the silence.

New essay on The Wandering Muse on what it teaches you to work inside someone else’s aesthetic at the highest level you can. The triangle I’ve been navigating for 15 years without ever naming it. And what it quietly cost.

Read the full article on Substack

[beingblog]

“When Moses, at the burning bush, says to God, “Who are you?” God says to him three words: “Hayah asher hayah.” And those words are mistranslated in English as “I am that which I am.” But in Hebrew, it means “I will be who or how or where I will be,” meaning, don’t think you can predict me. I am a God who is going to surprise you. And one of the ways God surprises us is by letting a Jew or a Christian discover the trace of God’s presence in a Buddhist monk or a Sikh tradition of hospitality or the graciousness of Hindu life. You know, don’t think we can confine God into our categories. God is bigger than religion.”

— Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in “The Dignity of Difference.”

[kosmogrl]

learning not to return to places where I miss the past but see no future

[jueki]

[glowcowboy]

hey btw if the act of creation was done with the intent of perfection, nothing would ever be completed. create for the joy of creating. the world needs u and ur art

[ready-to-fight-deactivated20161]

[misanthropicisotope]

America is a terrorist state

[weepingwidar]

Jessie Homer French (American, 1940) - Memento Mori (2022)

[vvitchella]

not to be disabled on main but have you ever fucking noticed how every god damn thing requires both time and energy

[weepingwidar]

Sabrina Bockler (American, 1987) - Borzois In Moonlight (2023)

[gobloggirl]

[disc80s]