The Mind Mashup.

My likes, my loves, and the bullshit in-between.

[sweetvisage]

[themindmashup]

Every Other Freckle - alt-J

[nevver]

Drew Tyndell

[calanthesfeuillemort]

“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.  “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse.  “You become.  It takes a long time.  That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.  Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.  But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

[calanthesfeuillemort]

— from The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real) by Margery Williams, 1922

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov

[another-tortured-artist]

Jun Miyake - Lillies Of The Valley

Beautiful dance, beautiful sound.

[5centsapound]

[patternbase]

New portrait work from Omar Victor Diop, clearly influenced by Seydou Keita

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[ghostweight]

[actegratuit]

‘teshima art museum’ by tokyo-based architect ryue nishizawa and japanese artist rei naito recently welcomed visitors of the 2010 setouchi international art festival held on seven islands in the takamatsu port area, japan. hugging a hilly site on the island of teshima, the museum resembles a droplet of water caught in the middle of gliding across the land. 

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/ryue-nishizawa-teshima-art-museum/

[itkrutika]

[themindmashup]

COME ON OBAMAAAAA! Here's to another 4 years.

[nevver]

[themindmashup]

Clever.

[isaboutwords-deactivated2015012]

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Christopher Morley  (via coffeebeansandsweetthings)

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

[themindmashup]

The Sudden Walk - a short story by Franz Kafka

[julienfoulatier]

Photo-montage by Erin Chase.

[blackmoods]

Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket (and detail) James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1872-77

[funkystarfishy]

Chen Yang Liu

[vanished]

Laurent Laveder - Moon Games

A series of shots that are focused around the moon, a whimsical rethinking of our nearest celestial body—as a lightbulb, a clock, a balloon. The moon can be harvested, snipped, or tossed between playmates. Laveder is able to capture the moon in all her shining glory, in an array of phases, including lunar eclipses.

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Vietnam Zippos

“Vietnam Zippos showcases the engravings made by U.S. soldiers on their lighters during the height of the conflict, from 1965 to 1973. In a real-life version of the psychedelic war portrayed in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Sherry Buchanan tells the fascinating story of how the humble Zippo became a talisman and companion for American GIs during their tours of duty. Through a dazzling array of images, we see how Zippo lighters were used during the war, and we discover how they served as a canvas for both personal and political expression during the Age of Aquarius, engraved with etchings of peace signs and marijuana leaves and slogans steeped in all the rock lyrics, sound bites, combat slang, and antiwar mottos of the time.”