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“Mat Osman: Very early on there was a Britpop club on Oxford Street, and the fliers had all the bands who were played, Oasis and stuff, and at the bottom it had this little thing saying ‘sorry girls, no Suede’. I always remember that with real pride, and I always liked the idea that that we might be a girls’ band.”

- Cheating The “Living Death”: Suede Interviewed

George Rodek’s Saddle Balloon (1895)

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:41:07 +0100

George Rodek’s Saddle Balloon (1895)

fairy-wren: black backed jackal and a cape vulture (photo by...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:37:09 +0100

fairy-wren:

black backed jackal and a cape vulture

(photo by hendri venter)

"I didn’t enjoy things I couldn’t envision myself being the best at."

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:04:00 +0100

“I didn’t enjoy things I couldn’t envision myself being the best at.”

- Frank Ocean, summing up my entire childhood and adolescent life

"The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, “Oh, you know, I’m really not..."

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:01:42 +0100

“The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, “Oh, you know, I’m really not that good. Oh, I can’t believe I’m here.” I find it vaguely sinister, even. A lot of that goes around in this business; many artists are fed this line to look like this cushy, fuzzy person. I’ve always fought that wholeheartedly. Like, “Let’s face the facts here: I’m a fucking genius.””

- Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy and Fame — Vulture

corardens: woods

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:38:52 +0100

corardens:

woods

Big Shoe Diaries: IN MEMORIAM: ARPAD MIKLOS

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:12:00 +0100

Big Shoe Diaries: IN MEMORIAM: ARPAD MIKLOS

"I’m pre-feminist, that is, I came of age before any of that happened. So my first twelve years of..."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:08:03 +0100

“I’m pre-feminist, that is, I came of age before any of that happened. So my first twelve years of being a writer were not spent in that environment, and at that point I would get reviewers saying things like, “She has transcended being a woman.” And I’d be thinking, How exactly do you do that?”

- The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Margaret Atwood - The Rumpus.net

Cornell, Joseph (1903-72). American sculptor, one of the...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:54:29 +0100

Untitled (The Hotel Eden) c. 1945; Construction, 15 1/8 x 15 3/4 x 4 3/4 in; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Untitled (Medici Prince) c. 1952; Construction, 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 5 in; Collection Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shapiro, Oak Park, IL

Untitled (Pharmacy) 1943; Construction, 15 1/4 x 12 x 3 1/8 in; Collection Mrs. Marcel Duchamp, Paris

Cornell, Joseph (1903-72). American sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage.

He had no formal training in art and his most characteristic works are his highly distinctive `boxes’. These are simple boxes, usually glass-fronted, in which he arranged surprising collections of photographs or Victorian bric-à-brac in a way that has been said to combine the formal austerity of Constructivism with the lively fantasy of Surrealism. Like Kurt Schwitters he could create poetry from the commonplace. Unlike Schwitters, however, he was fascinated not by refuse, garbage, and the discarded, but by fragments of once beautiful and precious objects, relying on the Surrealist technique of irrational juxtaposition and on the evocation of nostalgia for his appeal (he befriended several members of the Surrealist movement who settled in the USA during the Second World War). Cornell also painted and made Surrealist films.

freakyfauna: BANG! Found here (via anonymous works).

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:12:28 +0100

freakyfauna:

BANG!

Found here (via anonymous works).

Uccello Artico detto Nave da Guerra, che credesi il...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:37:17 +0100

Uccello Artico detto Nave da Guerra, che credesi il Maschio

Description & notes: Male Arctic tern. Scientific name: Sterna paradisaea.

Illustration by Antonio Gregori

Il Gazzettiere Americano: Bird etchings from the 1763 Italian version of ‘The American Gazetteer’

Michelle Morin, Winter Woods and Wild Turkeys, watercolor and...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:53:05 +0100

Michelle Morin, Winter Woods and Wild Turkeys, watercolor and gouache on paper. 12” x 16”

"From Borges to Calvino, drawing heavily on the tropes and conventions of science fiction and..."

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:56:20 +0100

“From Borges to Calvino, drawing heavily on the tropes and conventions of science fiction and mystery, to Anita Brookner and John Fowles with their sprung romance novels, from Millhauser and Thomas Pynchon to Kurt Vonnegut, John Crowley, Robert Aickman, A. S. Byatt, and Cormac McCarthy, writers have plied their trade in the spaces between genres, in the no man’s land. These great writers have not written science f iction or fantasy, horror or westerns—you can tell that by the book jackets. But they have drawn immense power from and provided considerable pleasure for readers through play, through the peculiar commingling of mockery and tribute, invocation and analysis, considered rejection and passionate embrace, which are the hallmarks of our Trickster literature in this time of unending crossroads.”

- Michael Chabon, Maps and Legends, San Francisco 2008