what?

[uselesspolish]

To zaszczyt być twoim ulubionym ziemniakiem.

It is an honour to be your favourite potato.

IPA: tɔ ˈzaʃʧ̑ɨt bɨʨ̑ ˈtfɔĩm ˌuluˈbʲjɔ̃nɨm ʑɛmˈɲacɛm

 (via uselesspolish)

[confusedcatsagainstfeminism]

[karolina]

confusedcatsagainstfeminism:

[graciehagen]

[sarkos]

While I was helping grandad with his garage door, the Sonic the Hedgehog theme started running through my mind, but the lyrics were changed to Werner the Herzog.

This is literally the best explanation I can make of my thought process.

[regmombassa]

Narooma.

[karolina]

Boy Meets Painting. Painting Grabs Boy. Boy Mystified

Here's what I remember: The day it happened, I was around 8 years old, which puts me in the second grade. It was definitely a Sunday (because we never went anywhere on Saturdays). My dad had decided to take me to the Museum of Modern Art to see some paintings, and I always liked going places with my dad, it didn't matter where, so we arrived at the lobby, bought our tickets, handed them to a man who tore them in half, like at the movies. Then we took the escalator, walked into a big gallery, and as we were ...

[karolina]

[nishantchoksi]

[mrgreenteachesphotography]

John Baldessari, Two Opponents (Blue and Yellow), 2004. Screenprint in 8 colours.  [Image sourced from: http://www.reframingphotography.com/content/john-baldessari]

[karolina]

[karolina]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s notes for The Brothers Karamazov

[karolina]

[karolina]

Nick Cave’s dictionary of interesting words

[karolina]

Art Theory - Reg Mombassa

When a monkey is born it will proceed to effortlessly produce art of high quality. Humans, themselves a type of foul-mouthed ape, have been inspired by this to produce art of their own, although it is of dubious quality when compared to that of the ape world. Our art is over complicated by our dysfunctional civilization with all its hideous violence, smug triumphalism and cheesy sentimentality.

Many professional artists are too dazzled by the pompous high seriousness and tedious theory of the art world to produce good work. Because the production of art is one of the more ridiculous activities practiced by humans, along with sex and dancing, it is best left to those misfits and outsiders who are less constrained by the rigors of normality. The best art is produced by children, mad people, prisoners, simpletons and rural peasants.

Art is good. It makes you happy. Art is a frightened, wet animal howling at the moon. It is ranting, futile gestures, gobs of paint and plaster hurled at wall and floor. Art is worth a lot of money. Art is a legitimate escape from the tedium of the factory or the supermarket. It helps people to avoid the real world. Art is a reflection of the glory of the visible world and a garbled commentary on the internal and invisible worlds. Art is a picture no artist could paint. It is a pretty cottage, glowing in the twilight. Art is a length of severed intestine glistening on the asphalt after a brutal traffic accident.

Art is a constant struggle to overcome the technical difficulties of accurately rendering a galloping stallion or the smoke from a chimney or a women’s face (without buggering up the eyes). To do good art you have to think like a monkey, drink like a horse and dress like a clown.

[karolina]

[karolina]

Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers

[karolina]

Guillermo del Toro's visual journal of ideas for Pan's Labyrinth

[karolina]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's notes for The Brothers Karamazov

[karolina]