Concert pianist James Rhodes articulates the urgency of finding your purpose and doing what you love. As a wise woman eloquently put it, “Start with a big, fat lump in your throat, start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, or a crazy lovesickness, and run with it.” (via explore-blog)

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2headedsnake:

Denis Dubois

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explore-blog:

This is how humor works: It’s a conflict of synergies — we mashup these things that don’t belong together that temporarily exist in out minds.

A TED salon curated by Helen Walters, titled “Design Is Everywhere,” New Yorker cartoons editor Bob Mankoff illustrates his theory of humor with his most famous cartoon, which juxtaposes the syntax of politeness with the content of rudeness.

He also notes that the magazine calls cartoons “idea drawings” because an idea drawing “it requires thinking on behalf of cartoonish and thinking on behalf of reader to make it work.”

For more illustrative epitomes in action, see The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs.

owlturdcomix:

Now you too can be an artist.

http://i.imgur.com/QLpWRoN.png

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Lemony Snicket (via likeafieldmouse)

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brbnightmares:

boredangry:

something is terribly wrong with this dog

This is me in my next life.

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unconsumption:

The stone cutting industry in Mahallat, Iran is a big business - in fact, it accounts for almost half the city’s economy. Unfortunately, the cutting process produces a lot of wasted stone that can’t be used. Tehran-based Architecture by Collective Terrain wanted to do make use of this…

cartoonfuntime:

morefuntime:

post-con sadz about nothing 

(I’ve been sort of neglecting my main art blog and hiding drawings in my “normal” one, woooops. Gonna try to fix that.)

archiemcphee:

Watch out acrophobes, this piece of anamorphic street art might give you vertigo. Erik Johansson, a Swedish photographer based in Berlin, Germany created the dizzying illusion of standing on the edge of a skyscraper’s roof for visitors actually standing quite safely on the pavement in front of the Skrapan shopping mall in Stockholm, Sweden.

“He sees photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas of the mind. Last fall, Johansson was commissioned by the Stockholm shopping mall Skrapan to create a perspective illusion for their 5th anniversary. Being one of the tallest buildings in the city, they wanted to incorporate the view from the top of the building into the optical illusion.”

[via CollabCubed]

maimay71:

Nina Leen

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Haruki Murakami (via hellanne)

(via quote-book)

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nevver:

The best sketchbook ever

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