Scrapbook of Memories

Just a blog full of what i love, what inspires me and what makes me me.

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Apple zine! With a little poem I wrote

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— william wordsworth (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.

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i’m printing this out and i’m putting it on the mirror so i can confront myself with it

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Mathieu Simoneau by Arseny Jabiev for Love Want Magazine Issue 30

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A resident of Hamnavoe, Shetland Islands in Scotland, Anne Eunson decided to knit herself a beautiful lace fence using twine. The fence is fashioned from strong black twine - the same kind that is used to make fishing nets - and Anne knitted it on specially adapted curtain rods. It took her about three weeks to knit enough lace to surround her front garden, using a 23 stitch repeat of a familiar Shetland lace pattern.

*Photo via Laine Glover‎, Social History

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[lezarus]

cant stop thinking abt richard siken saying that people liked him better when they thought he was forever young, beautiful, serious and dead

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Helene Beland - Un capteur de lumière, 2012

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Water painted by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)

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Illustration by Marcel Vertès in Vogue, July 1949

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it is human nature to weave strings of yarn, threads, or fibers together to make cloth and textiles

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humans will see a soft cellulose plant material or downy animal coat and say is anyone going to twist that staple fibre in order to make a cohesive thread and then not wait for an answer

[justanotherlittlequeerdo]

Seriously, spinning as a craft is ancient. Archaeologists recently discovered three-ply fiber that’s around 46,000 years old, blowing the previous “oldest fingers” out of the water by thousands of years.

But get this: It’s made from fucking TREE BARK. Can you imagine the dedication, foresight, and experimentation involved in figuring out how to harvest and spin that? On top of everything, it’s also lace weight. What the fuck, Neanderthals?

Article: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/neanderthals-made-the-worlds-oldest-thread/

World’s oldest yarn hints that Neanderthals had basic math skills

We have no proof Neanderthals told stories, but they definitely spun yarns.

Also, big ole slow clap for the article writer.

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You’re very thoughtful with your music. There is a message behind your music. Why do you think that’s important?

I think there is a time and a place for fun music, for stuff that’s just candy for the ears. And I jam a lot of that, and I make a lot of that, too. 

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The process of adding shiny shifter watercolours

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Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.