papier?

vraiment?? oui!!

by Matt Shlian via

crazy like a fox

i suspect wearing one of these rings by Species by the Thousands might help a girl channel that strength.

always stay strong

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another life

my retired parents just returned from a trip to paris and london. i've been swooning over their photographs (this isn't one of them) with a combination of awe and nostalgia and a lump of wanderlust and wonderlust in my throat. now i deeply long to be there again. my parents had never been overseas before this trip IN THEIR LIVES, so i'm so very proud of and happy for them for making this voyage. now that's what i call retirement.

solid ground

by Maps & Atlases, straight outta Chi.

why do i want to eat this rug?

or roll around on it. then eat it. would love to own this pinocchio rug but won't cause it's too spensive. i don't even know how much it is, i didn't look, but i can tell. it's outta my league.

globes galore

i stopped my globe collecting/hoarding awhile back, but that doesn't mean i can't still appreciate this beaut. unruly things

door to the world

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pretty as a pixel

For his series The Land Surveyors, artist Christian Faur took photographs from the Great Depression, and, using a digital mapping technique, deconstructed each image down to its pixels. From there, he hand-cast thousands of crayons and then reassembled them into wooden frames to create artworks that resemble highly-pixelated images. Confused? Click through to get a better look at the end result.

By Christian Faur via bbblog

Mesmerized

The Metropolitan Transit Authority's recycling program has been involved for the past decade, retiring over 2500 subways cars to the ocean to help rebuild underwater reefs along the eastern seabed. These are my images, seconds before these mass transit vessels join history in building homes for life under the sea. via

wild thing

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

- Maurice Sendak

via lost

cute on a tail