bespoke.

"The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough..."

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:54:23 -0400

“The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”

- Ted Hughes (via explore-blog)

conquerorwurm: Axolotls have the unique ability to regenerate...

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:33:48 -0400

conquerorwurm:

Axolotls have the unique ability to regenerate most body parts. In a period of months, they can grow entire new limbs and even portions of the brain and spine.

theatlantic: “I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb...

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:50:48 -0400

theatlantic:

“I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” —Neil Armstrong

"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it"

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:49:27 -0400

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it”

- Zora Neale Hurston (via dreamhampton1)

"You display the true marks of a Great Gourmande … which always includes the warmest and most..."

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:08:05 -0400

“You display the true marks of a Great Gourmande … which always includes the warmest and most generous of natures … and is why people who love to eat are always the best people.”

- Julia Child, who would’ve been 100 today, in a letter to her best friend, Avis DeVoto (via explore-blog)

"I think ‘creativity’ is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right."

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:06:51 -0400

“I think ‘creativity’ is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.”

- Seth Godin

Also see famous creators against the fear of failure
(via explore-blog)

"Mad people = people who stand alone + burn. I’m attracted to them because they give me permission to..."

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:08:00 -0400

“Mad people = people who stand alone + burn. I’m attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.”

- Susan Sontag (via explore-blog)

verbal fog

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:57:00 -0400

to make silence

we must speak

the whatever-that-might-be.

"There is always a new New York coming into being as the old one disappears."

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:44:00 -0400

“There is always a new New York coming into being as the old one disappears.”

- Adam Gopnik, and other favorite New York writers, on Central Park (via explore-blog)

Found secret message

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:20:00 -0400

strandbooks:

I love you, too!
‘nuff said …

to Frank Ocean from Beyoncé.

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:59:00 -0400

to Frank Ocean from Beyoncé.

igetitart: Picasso, Le Reve, 1931 Nora Ephron, writer,...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:04:57 -0400

igetitart:

Picasso, Le Reve, 1931

Nora Ephron, writer, film-maker and humorist, passed away last week. This deliciously witty excerpt comes from her 2006 Vegas vacation, where she details Steve Wynn’s ill-fated encounter with this Picasso. I’ll bet this happened on a Monday.

The next day, after an excellent lunch at Chinois in the Forum Mall, which is the eighth wonder of the world, we all trooped back to our hotel to see the painting. We went into Wynn’s office, which is just off the casino, past a waiting area with a group of fantastic Warhols, past a secretary’s desk with a Matisse over it (a Matisse over a secretary’s desk!) (and by the way a Renoir over another secretary’s desk!) and into Wynn’s office. There, on the wall, were two large Picassos, one of them Le Reve. Steve Wynn launched into a long story about the painting — he told us that it was a painting of Picasso’s mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, that it was extremely erotic, and that if you looked at it carefully (which I did, for the first time, although I’d seen it before at the Bellagio) you could see that the head of Marie-Therese was divided in two sections and that one of them was a penis. This was not a good moment for me vis a vis the painting. In fact, I would have to say that it made me pretty much think I wouldn’t pay five dollars for it. Wynn went on to tell us about the provenance of the painting – who’d first bought it and who’d then bought it. This brought us to the famous Victor and Sally Ganz, a New York couple who are a sort of ongoing caution to the sorts of people who currently populate the art world, because the Ganzes managed to accumulate a spectacular art collection in a small New York apartment with no money at all. The Ganz collection went up for auction in 1997, Wynn was saying — he was standing in front of the painting at this point, facing us. He raised his hand to show us something about the painting — and at that moment, his elbow crashed backwards right through the canvas.

There was a terrible noise.

Wynn stepped away from the painting, and there, smack in the middle of Marie-Therese Walter’s plump and allegedly-erotic forearm, was a black hole the size of a silver dollar – or, to be more exactly, the size of the tip of Steve Wynn’s elbow — with two three-inch long rips coming off it in either direction. Steve Wynn has retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that damages peripheral vision, but he could see quite clearly what had happened.

“Oh shit,” he said. “Look what I’ve done.”

The rest of us were speechless.

“Thank God it was me,” he said.

For sure.

Nora Ephron (1941-2012)

It was a $139 million dollar mistake. Read the full story here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/my-weekend-in-vegas_b_31800.html

dreamhampton1: but of course…

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:02:42 -0400

dreamhampton1:

but of course…

amnhnyc: Photo: Louise Bourgeois; SPIDER I, 1995; Bronze, dark...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:27:00 -0400

amnhnyc:

Photo: Louise Bourgeois; SPIDER I, 1995; Bronze, dark and polished patina, wall piece; 50 x 46 x 12 1/4”; 127 x 116.8 x 31.1 cm; Courtesy Cheim & Read and Hauser & Wirth; Photo: Allan Finkelman, © Louise Bourgeois Trust

hyuninc: East of Main Street: Small Talk, 37 Asian American...

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:19:41 -0400

hyuninc:

East of Main Street: Small Talk, 37 Asian American kids from diverse backgrounds and ranging in age from 4-12 give their opinions on a variety of topics — their heritage and what it means to be Asian American, what sets them apart from other kids and what makes them the same, how they relate to their families and their grandparents, the languages they speak, favorite foods, customs, and their hopes and dreams for the future. The piece is filled with humor, sweetness and poignancy, and helps highlight just how insightful and intelligent children really are.

(I was in the first East of Main Street two years ago. Great to see that it’s still going strong)

explore-blog: These Pantone tarts by French food designer...

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:04:27 -0400

explore-blog:

These Pantone tarts by French food designer Emilie de Griottes are quite possibly the best thing ever. Better, even, than PANTONE: The Twentieth Century in Color.

(ᔥ designboom ↬ Quipsologies)

dreamhampton1: April 1992. Los Angeles.

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:51:06 -0400

dreamhampton1:

April 1992. Los Angeles.

"All education should strive to help those receiving it to gain enough freedom in relation to works..."

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 01:33:40 -0400

“All education should strive to help those receiving it to gain enough freedom in relation to works of art to themselves become writers and artists.”

- Psychoanalyst and University of Paris literature professor Pierre Baynard in the excellent How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read (via explore-blog)

"The Salem trials are a seminal trope in American history, one that has repeated itself over and over..."

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:19:00 -0400

“The Salem trials are a seminal trope in American history, one that has repeated itself over and over in various forms – both literary and political – throughout the years. At its heart is the notion of the doubleness of life: you are not who you are, but have a secret and probably evil twin; more importantly, the neighbours are not who you think they are. They might be witches, in the 17th century, or people who will falsely accuse you of being a witch; or traitors, in the 18th century, at the time of the revolution; or communists, in the 20th; or people who will stone you to death, in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”; or terrorists, in the 21st.”

- Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury in The Guardian

"When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem...."

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:08:49 -0400

“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

- R. Buckminster Fuller (via less-ismore)