Bufflehead Cabin

youthbulletin: s u m m e r t i m e For the love of Aloha...

Sun, 20 May 2012 18:14:26 -0400

s u m m e r t i m e

For the love of Aloha shirts.

Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun

Sun, 20 May 2012 18:13:01 -0400

Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun:

If you took all the clichés about horrible urban design and shoved them into 75 acres, you’d probably end up with something pretty close to Dallas’ Victory Park. A pre-planned billion-dollar collection of imposing hyper-modern monumental structures, high-end chain stores, enormous video screens, expensive restaurants, a sports arena and tons of parking, completely isolated from the rest of the city by a pair of freeways, Victory Park is like the schizophrenic dream of some power-hungry capitalist technocrat. …

sea-chelle: Afterward, the compromise. Bodies resume their boundaries. These legs, for instance,...

Sun, 20 May 2012 17:33:13 -0400

sea-chelle:

Afterward, the compromise.
Bodies resume their boundaries.

These legs, for instance, mine.
Your arms take you back in.

Spoons of our fingers, lips
admit their ownership.

The bedding yawns, a door
blows aimlessly ajar

and overhead, a plane
singsongs coming down.

Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when

the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self

lay lightly down, and slept.

Maxine Kumin, After Love

spunspunspun: The 23 String Band, Just Leave Everything To...

Sun, 20 May 2012 17:33:07 -0400

spunspunspun:

The 23 String Band, Just Leave Everything To Me

Smooth.

rhea137: wasbella102: Claude Monet reading a newspaper. Pierre...

Sun, 20 May 2012 17:31:49 -0400

rhea137:

wasbella102: Claude Monet reading a newspaper. Pierre Auguste Renoir

Hookah time! [Or near enough to have a puff.]

Sun, 20 May 2012 17:28:01 -0400

Hookah time! [Or near enough to have a puff.]

You’re A Slave And Here’s Why - Moment of Clarity...

Sun, 20 May 2012 16:53:25 -0400

You’re A Slave And Here’s Why - Moment of Clarity #132

undr: Marc Riboud Zazou, le peintre de la Tour Eiffel, Paris,...

Sun, 20 May 2012 12:02:13 -0400

undr:

Marc Riboud

Zazou, le peintre de la Tour Eiffel, Paris, France, 1953

Thanks to luzfosca

Cool Clothes and Styles of Maker Faire Attendees

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:56:49 -0400

Cool Clothes and Styles of Maker Faire Attendees:

I’m glad to see that two of the men featured are wearing tophats.

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Sun, 20 May 2012 11:46:25 -0400

" “I knew this would happen to me.” "

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:46:20 -0400

“” “I knew this would happen to me.” “”

- George Bernard Shaw’s epitaph on his grave, Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics (1856-1950), cited in Vlatko Vedral, Decoding Reality: the universe as quantum information, Oxford University Press, 2010 (via amiquote)

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Sun, 20 May 2012 11:46:15 -0400

proustitute: Adolf Fassbender, Just Drifting, 1939(via wood s...

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:40:42 -0400

proustitute:

Adolf Fassbender, Just Drifting, 1939

(via wood s lot)

"We guess at what’s next unlike the mountain who knows it in the bones…"

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:39:50 -0400

“We guess
at what’s next

unlike the mountain

who knows it
in the bones…”

- Kevin Young, from Book of Hours (via proustitute)

low-country: Henri d’Ursel - La Perle (1929) The count Henri...

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:19:53 -0400

low-country:

Henri d’Ursel - La Perle (1929)

The count Henri d’Ursel shot La perle (The Pearl) under the pseudonym of Henri d’Arche “in the flush of inexperience”, as he put it. D’Ursel made only one film, based on a screenplay by the poet Georges Hugnet. In a Paris straight out of the serials of Louis Feuillade, the hero goes in search of a pearl which constantly disappears in a string of bizarre encounters - thieves sneak into a hotel wearing body stockings à la Musidora, a beautiful fiancée on a bicycle, a somnambulist walking the rooftops in a night-shirt and amorous fantasies in the undergrowth. Hugnet himself played this waking dreamer, haunted by an unending eroticism reflected in the images.

firsttimeuser: Venetian canal, 1955 by Vittorio Piergiovanni

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:14:22 -0400

firsttimeuser:

Venetian canal, 1955 by Vittorio Piergiovanni

gwebarchaeology: sans-merci: Dwarf Figurine, 550-850 CE, of...

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:06:50 -0400

gwebarchaeology:

sans-merci:

Dwarf Figurine, 550-850 CE, of Maya-Mexico culture, now locted at The Walters Art Museum

Dwarfs were important members of royal Maya courts. They are portrayed serving food, playing musical instruments, holding sacred objects for the ruler, and as diviners and scribes. Their elevated social roles were steeped in cosmology and religious mythology, especially that of the maize god, who was assisted by a dwarf when the deity set the Three Stones of the cosmic hearth at the beginning of Creation. The Classic Maya viewed dwarfs as the living embodiment of the maize god’s supernatural helpers, who continued their sacred duty in the regal court. Maya peoples today believe that earlier creations were populated by a race of dwarfs who now reside inside the earth, living below the ruins of the ancient cities. The ornate turban worn by this dwarf is typical of the courtly garb of key individuals serving the ruler. This so-called spangled turban headdress is especially connected to gods and humans associated with Creation and scribal duties. A curious feature of this dwarf is what may be a halved cacao pod held in his right hand. His cheeks are covered with what appears to be a thin, woven fabric; this recalls other figurines, many of which are dwarfs, with an unidentifiable material plastered to the lower half of their face. These features suggest the depiction of a formal rite. The graceful rendering of this figure and the exceptional attention to detail reveal the work of a master artist.

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Sun, 20 May 2012 11:05:46 -0400

The knack

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:03:27 -0400

theantidote:

To live completely the paradox that things matter absolutely and things absolutely do not matter.

(via uitlandish:)

How Corporations and Local Governments Use the Poor As Piggy Banks | Mother Jones

Sun, 20 May 2012 10:58:09 -0400

How Corporations and Local Governments Use the Poor As Piggy Banks | Mother Jones:

motherjones:

libraryyeti:

Excellent (and depressing) piece by Barbara Ehrenreich. I’ve seen a lot of what she mentions in action.

(By the way, if you haven’t read her book Nickel and Dimed, I recommend it.)

Yes, yes. Nickel and Dimed is a classic.