MosBitches

[parabola-magazine]

“[…] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of ‘psst’ that you usually can’t even hear because you’re in such a rush to or from something important you’ve tried to engineer” —David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (Little, Brown, 1996)

Wisdom gathered from our Winter 2015-2016 issue on the theme of free will and destiny. For a preview—or to subscribe, click here.

Photography Credit: David Foster Wallace (Hachette Book Group)

[whitneymuseum]

Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, grasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, rumbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling, scumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, horse shitting, hair splitting, nit picking, piss­trickling, nose sticking ass­gouging, eye­ball poking, finger pointing, alley­way sneaking, long waiting, small stepping, evil eyeing, back­scratching, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just do!

Sol LeWitt’s advice to fellow artist Eva Hesse on dealing with a case of creative block. Read their correspondence on The Huffington Post.  (via whitneymuseum)

[seinfeldworld]

[architorturedsouls]

Williman-Lötscher House / Bearth & Deplazes Architecten AG

[natgeofound]

[crashinglybeautiful]

Visitors stare in awe at the stained glass windows of Sainte Chapelle in Paris, May 1968.

Photograph by Bruce Dale, National Geographic. via: natgeofound.

[seinfeldworld]

[qviet]

[qviet]

[iraffiruse]

[10knotes]

falconktango:

Woah calm down there Satan.

[pretiosa]

googly eyes ftw

[billie-is-on-holiday-deactivate]

Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis; Daïchi Saïto, 2009

[cavetocanvas]

Eve Arnold, Andy Warhol preparing to shoot his first full length motion picture feature, Harlot. The Silver Factory, New York 1964

[usatoday]

The first newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence that appeared on July 6, 1776 is for sale and is estimated to fetch up to $750,00. The newspaper version differs from the first printing in capitalization.

Photo: Library of Congress

[qviet]

[cavetocanvas]

Eve Arnold, Dawn, New York City, 1981

[antoniopolophotography]

Wicker chair

[p4u1x]

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful

William Morris (via websmith)

[cavetocanvas]

Eve Arnold, Marilyn Monroe resting, Bement, Illinois 1955