2.17

Onwards

[oasischilde]

[simplifythisonelife]

So beautiful!

[niravpatelphotography]

Lost & found. 

Abigail Vansteenberghe. 

[mariel-elisa]

[artchipel]

INVITATION - Tumblr Artist

Sagmeister & Walsh | Stefan Sagmeister (b.1962, Austria/USA) - The Happy Show on Tumblr

Stefan Sagmeister is a designer who blends typography and imagery in striking, fresh, ambitious, and unsettling ways. Having influenced the culture of design over the past decade, he is perhaps best known for his album covers for Talking Heads, Lou Reed, OK Go, and The Rolling Stones, to name only a few, as well as innovative campaigns, for companies like Levis, that have entered the public consciousness.

In addition to individual works, some of which have been custom-made for this exhibition, The Happy Show includes a personal narrative, as Sagmeister’s individual experience is portrayed beside social data detailing the role of age, gender, race, money, and other factors that determine happiness. This thematically focused exhibition presents work in film, print, infographics, sculpture, and interactive installations.

The Happy Show is actually on at La Gaîté lyrique 3 bis rue Papin
 75003 Paris - till 9 March 2014 Photo @ Institute of Contemporary Art’s (ICA) exhibition view

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[dailyminimal]

#JA17-823

A new geometric design every day

[dailyminimal]

#JA17-826

A new geometric design every day

[simplifythisonelife]

Slowly but surely

[simplifythisonelife]

I don't even know if I believe

[simplifythisonelife]

reflections

[simplifythisonelife]

yesterday while on my way to getting dinner with a friend, I was constructing a phrase in my head (in french) about how I’d ask someone if they knew how to get to somewhere: “savez-vous le direction pour aller à ...etc” 

literally 10 seconds after, a guy comes up to me, and asks me a question WITH THE EXACT SAME SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION. I was so taken aback for a second because I quite literally thought he read my mind or something.

“Savez-vous où je peux acheter les cigarettes?”  (typical french and their tabacs)

I’m so freaked out ( in a good way) by this idea of how the universe plants events around you exactly as you’re putting your energy into working towards something. Every single time I’ve planned to do something, go somewhere... I just always end up meeting people or having interactions that affirm them.

Earlier this semester when I was planning on studying in France to improve my French, my smoke detector in my apartment ran out of battery and literally would not stop beeping for 2 days straight. I put in a work order at the office downstairs and someone eventually came to fix it. As the guy came into my room and was doing his thing with the detector, we made small talk and just chatted a bit. and then, out of NOWHERE, he just started talked to me in French. Come to find out, he was born there, knows the language fluently, and told me being in a city where a language is the dominant one is the best way to learn. 

3 months later, here I am writing this post in Paris. 

life is cray

[simplifythisonelife]

[the-red-lotus-blog-deactivated2]

There is a way between voice and presence where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens. With wandering talk it closes.

Rumi (via the-red-lotus-blog)

[fxckinghxgs]

Rupi Kaur

[teethequoter]

give to those who have nothing to give to you

Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (pg. 203)

[eureka--moment-deactivated20220]

Love this.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

Anna Quindlen (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[theshinysquirrel]

[itslatingirl]

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