objects of amusement and other things i like.

prettycolors.

rocks.

BerCath Collaboration

A Story About the Body by Robert Hass

The young composer, working that summer at an artist's colony, had watched her for a week. She was Japanese, a painter, almost sixty, and he thought he was in love with her. He loved her work, and her work was like the way she moved her body, used her hands, looked at him directly when she made amused or considered answers to his questions. One night, walking back from a concert, they came to her door and she turned to him and said, "I think you would like to have me. I would like that too, but I must tell you I have had a double mastectomy," and when he didn't understand, "I've lost both my breasts." the radiance that he had carried around in his belly and chest cavity--like music--withered, very quickly, and he made himself look at her when he said, "I'm sorry. I don't think I could." He walked back to his own cabin through the pines, and in the morning he found a small blue bowl on the porch outside his door. It looked to be full of rose petals, but he found when he picked it up that the rose petals were on top; the rest of the bowl--she must have swept them from the corners of her studio--was full of dead bees.

ready to go.

hey boy.

pleasure.

really ridiculous.

from jak & jil

Assignment #70

Miranda July Assignment #70
Say goodbye.

goodbye not wearing a hat when it's cold.
goodbye caffeine.
goodbye people that don't treat me well.
goodbye not speaking up.
goodbye avoiding exercise.
goodbye dirty apartment.
goodbye wishing you still cared about me.
goodbye not doing what i really want to.
goodbye trying to lose 5 pounds.
goodbye saying and not doing.
goodbye buying so many shoes.
goodbye waiting for you to text me.
goodbye over thinking it.
goodbye making plans when i know you'll bail.
goodbye wondering if i'm good enough.
goodbye lying to myself.
goodbye wondering if you miss me.
goodbye too many naps.
goodbye wasting time.
goodbye avoiding attention.
goodbye waiting for things to go back to the way they were.
goodbye not eating.
goodbye chattering my teeth.
goodbye fear of flying.
goodbye people who aren't as amazing as my real friends.
goodbye wishing i looked different.
goodbye everything i've lost.
goodbye grandpa.
goodbye trying to drown out the noise.
goodbye you.

sassy.

things i would like but cannot afford.

ann demeulemeester

lanvin

balmain

alessandro dell'acqua

balmain

vanessa bruno

givenchy

vanessa bruno

missoni

jean-paul gaultier

rick owens

marc jacobs

lanvin

rick owens

marc jacobs

marc jacobs

christian louboutin

dolce & gabbana

buy me bess.

bardot.

ocean water and a bridge.

There was nothing perfect about it. It was completely devoid of the glassy sheen that often coats the outside of more common relations. The waves that crashed upon those two were undeniably great, yet with every devastating tumble they took into the depths of the darkness would come a glitter of light leading to something greater, more powerful, and possibly capable of completely destroying both of their souls and snuffing out the hopeful glint still left in their eyes.

sandy smith.

ffffound.

maya lin: part of a systematic landscape.

water fire.

perfect bedroom.

3-D

30 Cents, Two Transfers, Love

By Richard Brautigan

Thinking hard about you
I got on the bus
and paid 30 cents car fare
and asked the driver for two transfers
before discovering
that I was
alone.

rampant rambling.

“I need to concentrate on each sound, so that each blade of grass holds the status of a flower.” – Arvo Pärt

ramblings:

all people in our world will form an infinite number of connections that will dictate the direction in which their lives will go.

it is our job to look at everything we encounter as important to our existence, even if it may seem insignificant at the time.

though we often assume that, when we are alone and quiet, we are devoid of all noise, Pärt makes it very clear that such an experience is actually when all of the most important sounds come out.

the sounds of a city as you sleep develop into a symphony of noise if properly appreciated.

we have been left with the clamor of our environments, and each separate thing we hear subconsciously leads us to another and develops into our own soundtrack to life. our society leaves us with no choice but to acknowledge these sounds, and our encounters with them are what drive our thoughts to develop, without our even speaking.

the myths that are constantly being created by our society are elastic and continuously changing, and so we have the ability to pick and choose what will affect us and what we will simply take for what it is and move on.

because myths are created by humans, they are inherently not eternal, but rather constantly evolving fabrications based out of a cloudy history.

to think that there isn’t some sort of implicit importance in acknowledging the effect that each tiny encounter we experience will have on the greater plane of our lives is ridiculous.

do our actions have an implicit value, or do they not each exist without a set context?

if we are to believe that everything can be a myth, we must also take up the responsibility of responding to each thing in the appropriately circulatory manner. to look at each thing we see from less than every angle would be to ignore something that could possibly be of vital importance to our experience of it. therefore, if we discard part of the information available to us about anything, we are hurting ourselves and ruining our chance for the understanding of something more important than the object itself.

everything we see can turn into something completely different, depending on who is observing it. also, since everything is a myth, everything is undefined, once we begin to examine it.

nothing is permanent. every movement and alteration is a chance to create something new and even more complex than what we thought was ever possible before.

exaggeration is often the only way we know how to find clarity.

though the complexities of each encounter we experience may cause us to question the true organization of nature, in the moments that we see clearly, we receive the gift of clarity in its purest form: not a total understanding of the world, but rather, the ability, even just for a second, to see change happening before us, evolving in our presence, without impediment.

things to write on ballons and send up into the sky.

“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” - Trina Paulus

“To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.” - William Shakespeare

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lover’s eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.” - William Shakespeare

“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.” - Maya Angelou

“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.” - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Hell's afloat in lover's tears.” - Dorothy Rothschild Parker

“Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.” - Leo Buscaglia

“Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.” - Ayn Rand

“People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.” - Marcel Proust

“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.” - Henri B. Stendhal

“You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.” - Herman Hesse

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” - Jorge Luis Borges

“Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.” - Libbie Fudim

“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.” - Orlando A. Battista

“We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.” - Ronald David Laing

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” - William Makepeace Thackeray

“Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.” - Ernest Hemingway

“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.” - Vincent Van Gogh
“Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“You can't blame gravity for falling in love.” - Albert Einstein

“I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.” - Princess of Wales Diana

“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.” - [I Corinthians]

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” - Charlie Brown

“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”- Mary Kay Ash

“If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.” - Woody Allen

“Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.” - William M. Thackeray

“A man sits as many risks as he runs.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.” - Milton Friedman

“Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.” - Billie Jean King

“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.” - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

“Love is the beauty of the soul.” - St. Augustine

“The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.” - William Lyon Phelps

“We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.” - Susan Sontag

“Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.” - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.” - Alexis De Tocqueville

“We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.” - St. Teresa of Avila

“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” - Pearl S. Buck

“It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.” - Chuck Daly

“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.” - Swedish Proverb

“What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.” - W. H. Auden

“I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.” - Billy Joel

dan flavin art institute.

arbus.

a calm heart will break when given a shake.

andy warhol beauty tips.

A good plain look is my favorite look. If I didn’t want to look so “bad,” I would want to look “plain.” That would be my next choice.

Weight isn’t important the way the magazines make you think it is. I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror & never looks below her shoulders, & she’s four or five hundred pounds but she doesn’t see all that, she just sees a beautiful face & therefore she thinks she’s a beauty. & therefore I think she’s a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do. Maybe she’s six hundred pounds, who knows. If she doesn’t care, I don’t.

There should be a lot of new girls in town, & there always are.

If you’re naturally pale, you should put on a lot of blush-on to compensate. But if you’ve got a big nose, just play it up, & if you have a pimple, put on the pimple cream in a way that will make it really stand out — “There! I use pimple cream!” There is a difference.

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off. When you see “beauty.” it has to do with the place, with what they’re wearing, what they’re standing next to, what closet they’re coming down the stairs from.

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, & vice-versa.

When you’re in Sweden & you see beautiful person after beautiful person & you finally don’t even turn around to look because you know the next person you see will be just as beautiful as the one you didn’t bother to turn around to look at — in a place like that you can get so bored that when you see a person who’s not beautiful, they look very beautiful to you because they break the beautiful monotony.

dakota fanning calm down.

richard may.

new things.

DYNO.

shadows to make you smile.

color is just right.

love this.

i wish i was her.

the adventures of brendan.

christopher davison is super.

new riding boots.

because my old ones were falling apart. :(

kris chau is love. check her out.

planting.

fields.

grandma.

corriette schoenaerts.

typical.

mo'moma.

memeMoMa.

olafur eliasson show.























andreas gursky.







don't remember.



jack whitten.



lynda benglis.



terry winters.

sarah lucas.

gilbert & george.

don't remember.

free movie!

tired....more later.

things to get for summer.

from urban outfitters because i'm a nerd.

sweetstuff.

can someone buy me this kehinde wiley towel from new museum? kthanks.

juergen teller fotos i like.

baguettes and soggy grapes.