old pink

max and gareth the stars

[sleepyteabug8]

[mrspacino]

Louise Brooks &… Louise Brooks! — 1928

[swampthingy]

[petaltexturedskies]

One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from “Gertrudes asks for advice” in The Complete Stories

[snakerij]

[bone-of-contention]

A bird’s nest in a broken skull at St. Leonard’s Crypt.

[damianurl]

[itsglowoclock]

[fulda-gap-express]

who is the Toronto baseball warlock

[swampthingy]

[perriaeyjeve]

[sovietpostcards]

On the merry-go-round. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Volzhsky, Volgograd oblast, 1967).

[laterkiss]

i have [gestures vaguely] my tendencies

[homelessrichgirl2]

The world owes me something

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Mark Rothko on the "recipe of a work of art," lecture at the Pratt Institute, 1958:

1. There must be a clear preoccupation with death—intimations of mortality... Tragic art, romantic art, etc. deals with the knowledge of death.

2. Sensuality. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship to things that exist.

3. Tension. Either conflict or curbed desire.

4. Irony. This is a modern ingredient—the self effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else.

5. Wit and Play..for the human element.

6. The ephemeral and chance...for the human element.

7. Hope. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.

[lemonwithsoysauce]

I want this mug

[n1a]