Bookcase Petrol Bowser
An art installation by Nissan for their LEAF model in Sydney, Australia showing how petrol bowsers might be used in a ‘World Without Petrol’.
"There are and have been and will be an infinite number of things on earth. Individuals all different, all wanting different things, all knowing different things, all loving different things, all looking different… . That is what I love: the differences, the uniqueness of all things and the importance of life… I see something that seems wonderful. I see the divineness in ordinary things."
— Diane Arbus
Today marks the 159th birthday of Vincent van Gogh! In honour and tribute of one of the most recognizable artist of modern times. Here are some of his most iconic artworks. Happy birthday Vincent!!
(via fckyeaharthistory)
North of the Myrdalsjokull ice cap in the Icelandic highlands. Beautiful, even if I can’t pronounce it.
(Source: tupac, via sealmaiden)
Vincent Van Gogh’s - Self Portraits
“ If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done. ”
~ Vincent van Gogh | 1853 - 1890 (The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to his Brother, Theo 1872-1886)
"The fact is, every tree that ever lived or lives has a history just like that tree has. It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don’t know.
The fact is, history is actually all sorts of things nobody knows about."
The fact is, history is actually all sorts of things nobody knows about."
— Ali Smith, There but for the
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.” ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Photo by Dimitri Caceaune)
Snow Disappointed
There’s no snow day worse than the one you desperately wanted, but it just doesn’t happen.
The time that you start cheering when it just barely starts to snow at 10:00 pm, and you go out on the breezeway in your pajamas with no shoes just to watch it snow because you’re so ridiculously happy. You tell yourself that if it just keeps snowing long enough, and if the temperature drops just a few more degrees, then all your dreams will come true and you’ll be able to sleep in.
Then you wake up the next morning and discover that yes, you do have to get up and go to class, and no matter how good the day is, it just feels like something unrealized.*
In short, this was the day I had today.
*Even though, had your classes been cancelled, you pretty much would have spent the entire day napping.
