Gun street girl

 

 { New York Times | Purse Pistols }

Book me up

O what a lovely war!

Face type

Periodic table of typefaces

Chloe Sevigne New York apartmento

Finally cleaning up the images on my hard drive ... these are for the benefit of ... ?

Hot plate heaven at the green hotel

I like breakfast plates:

But I especially like tectonic plates:

{ especially when depicted in size-14 futura font }

Naturally I've been thinking of them lately (disasters in New Zealand and Japan), and I've also been thinking about the importance geology in altering human development (thank you BBC's How the Earth Made Us). We’ve always chosen to build our homes along the edges of fault lines and plate boundaries - places which for thousands of years have provided the resources needed for civilisation to flourish.

"We continue all over the world, to understand how human beings are attracted to fault lines for copper, as well as water and many other resources that allow civilisations to flourish, they also helped change the very way we lived our lives. Even if they are dangerous. But what’s perhaps strangest of all is that we haven’t learnt our lesson – in fact little has changed over the past 10000 years. Half of the largest cities on Earth still lie along fault lines and plate boundaries. That’s even more surprising when you consider that we now know exactly what we’re living with."

Film | Isle of Flowers

I just realised that I haven't put my favourite short film of all time on this blog, enjoy!

 

{ 19th century engraving of a Leonid meteor storm }

Light my fire

{ Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir with Che Guevara, 1960 }

O to be an Arabian Babbler

"Babblers dance and take baths together, offer themselves gifts, clean themselves, and sometimes enter into conflict with each other for the privilege of helping another babbler. They may also feed their counterparts. This peculiar behaviour made them a privileged examples for ethological theories concerning altruism among animals."

Kim Jong-Il looking at things

This site called "Kim Jong-Il looking at things" made me laugh for 10 minutes straight, and confirmed to all my absolute insanity.

 

 { looking at the kitchen cabinet }

{ looking at a radish }

 { Looking at metal }

{ looking at girls }

Talkin' world war III blues

So, a while ago, when Josephine was my beautiful housemate in West End, we'd sit on our front deck and philosophise. Haha. La di da.

We came up with our own theory of communication, and the different levels.  The friends you're closest with are at level 5, while some friends you're really stuck at level 3 with.  (Hah, well, honestly, the reason I'm posting this here to clear up my dashboard of random stuff!)

levels      of       communication

1. Intoxicated (base level)
2. Frivolities (the weather etc)
3. Circumstantial (domestic, study)
4. Decisions
5. Ideas

Matter over mind

"Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those that mind don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind."

 -Dr. Seuss

Help me Charles Manson

In the late ’90s, pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of stamps. So, for his own entertainment, the then-unemployed thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious 10-year-old named Billy.

Above is a letter he sent to Charles Manson. Have a peak at Manson’s response, and see more Little Billy letters.

Music | We're tough and we're Texan with necks good and red

Texan Love Song | Elton John