09 11 09
reblogged from: Ekstasis

ekstasis:

heather-rivers:

“It’s like there’s a gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good, okay … it’s not that great. It’s really not that great. It’s … it’s trying to be good, it has some ambition to be good, but it’s not quite that good. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game — your taste is still killer.”

Watch this, okay? Especially you creative types. It’s important.

…Ira Glass workshops himself and gives advice that hits (entirely too) close to home for me.

I’m trying.

Entirely agree with him. Creative output is an evolutionary process, in which you are bound to question yourself - never give up!

08 11 09
Let The Words Kick: Study #4.

Let The Words Kick: Study #4.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition.Graham Greene (via bitchville) (via quote-book) (via depthofblue) (via casimirpulaskiday) (via sunbeamsinmasonjars)
reblogged from: hunsonisgroovy
hunsonisgroovy:

Thesaurus Rex
Ever wonder how people really talked in the 1800s, or 1500s, or earlier?
You can stop building the time machine. Such questions are now easier to answer than ever before, with the publication—after 44 years of work—of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. At almost 4,000 pages and about 800,000 meanings, this mind-boggling reference work is the biggest thesaurus ever and the world’s first historical thesaurus: It takes the enormity of the OED and arranges it thematically and chronologically. A glance at any page is a look at language evolution from Old English to the present, and it’s no less startling and amazing than watching sea slime slowly morph into monkeys and Neanderthals.

hunsonisgroovy:

Thesaurus Rex

Ever wonder how people really talked in the 1800s, or 1500s, or earlier?

You can stop building the time machine. Such questions are now easier to answer than ever before, with the publication—after 44 years of work—of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. At almost 4,000 pages and about 800,000 meanings, this mind-boggling reference work is the biggest thesaurus ever and the world’s first historical thesaurus: It takes the enormity of the OED and arranges it thematically and chronologically. A glance at any page is a look at language evolution from Old English to the present, and it’s no less startling and amazing than watching sea slime slowly morph into monkeys and Neanderthals.

reblogged from: The Things That Excite Me
thingsthatexciteme:

Dorte by Oliver Stalmans

thingsthatexciteme:

Dorte by Oliver Stalmans

reblogged from: AZspot
We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault legislation in which the government incentivizes the perpetuation, indeed the strengthening, of the for-profit health insurance industry, the very source of the problem. When health insurance companies deny care or raise premiums, co-pays and deductibles they are simply trying to make a profit. That is our system. Clearly, the insurance companies are the problem, not the solution. They are driving up the cost of health care. Because their massive bureaucracy avoids paying bills so effectively, they force hospitals and doctors to hire their own bureaucracy to fight the insurance companies to avoid getting stuck with an unfair share of the bills. The result is that since 1970, the number of physicians has increased by less than 200% while the number of administrators has increased by 3000%. It is no wonder that 31 cents of every health care dollar goes to administrative costs, not toward providing care. Even those with insurance are at risk. The single biggest cause of bankruptcies in the U.S. is health insurance policies that do not cover you when you get sick. But instead of working toward the elimination of for-profit insurance, H.R. 3962 would put the government in the role of accelerating the privatization of health care. In H.R. 3962, the government is requiring at least 21 million Americans to buy private health insurance from the very industry that causes costs to be so high, which will result in at least $70 billion in new annual revenue, much of which is coming from taxpayers. This inevitably will lead to even more costs, more subsidies, and higher profits for insurance companies - a bailout under a blue cross.Dennis Kucinich (via azspot)
reblogged from: let's run away forever.
No matter what you do or say, there’s nothing that you can do to make people understand you.Kurt Cobain (via thingsgohazy) (via togetlost)
reblogged from: iheartmyart ♥
iheartmyart:

Tim Roda, Untitled # 163, 200833” x 38” Gelatin Silver PrintEdition of Eight

iheartmyart:

Tim Roda, Untitled # 163, 2008

33” x 38” 
Gelatin Silver Print
Edition of Eight

07 11 09
Georgia Frost, photographed by John Akehurst. An editorial featured in Velvet November 2009.

Georgia Frost, photographed by John Akehurst. An editorial featured in Velvet November 2009.

Part of a series by Kelly Burgess. She asked people to construct forts and fill them with what they love.

Part of a series by Kelly Burgess. She asked people to construct forts and fill them with what they love.