justbesplendid:

romantic vintage

justbesplendid:

blossom

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hearts..

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Baked egg cups by BS’ In The Kitchen

(Source: whipsandwhiskey)

thedsgnblog:

Renan Vizzotto   |   http://behance.net/arturenan

“Visual Identity Venti Design.”

Art Director based in Florianopolis, Brazil. Focused on graphic design, branding and packaging.

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alicexz:

“I’ve decided what to do with my life. I wanna be a cleaner.” – Léon: The Professional (1994)

Early release of one of the new paintings for my cinema-inspired solo show, which opens June 7th at Bottleneck Gallery! WIPs, process shots, and additional info available at my blog.

eatsleepdraw:

http://chockoladien.deviantart.com/

alicexz:

Step-by-step process shots for this painting from my upcoming solo show. Digital painting from references, Adobe Photoshop + Cintiq 21UX tablet, approx 16-18 hours.

austinkleon:

Karen Green, Bough Down

Maggie Nelson has it covered:

The book consists of a series of prose poems, or individuated chunks of poetic prose, interspersed with postage-stamp-sized collages made by Green, who is also a visual artist. Collectively the text bears witness to the 2008 suicide of her husband, the writer David Foster Wallace, and its harrowing aftermath for Green…

Upon first read, Bough Down feels disorienting and surreal — like entering a drugged wormhole of grief, pills, and barely tolerable engrams and emotions, which appear via allegory, hallucination, synecdoche, and blur. Upon rereading, however, the bones of the book’s structure become admirably clear.

My favorite passage:

I take your parents to the lighthouse, I do. There is nothing but September fog to cover our shame, and your father laughs just like you, at the opacity. I want to eat the laugh, I want to rub it on my chest like camphor, I want to make a sound tattoo. I also want to bash these two small people together and see if a collision of DNA will give me my life back.

In the morning, my wife pointed out our son didn’t have kneecaps yet, and later that night I read this line: “I worry I broke your kneecaps when I cut you down.”

Filed under: my reading year 2013

justbesplendid:

London

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Peach iced tea by No.2 Pencil

Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 12 regular sized tea bags
• Fresh, filtered water
• 1 cup of sugar
• ¼ teaspoon of baking soda
• 1 11.5 oz can of peach nectar – found in juice aisle
• 1 lemon
• 4 fresh peaches

Instructions

1. Bring 4 cups of water to a boil, remove from heat and add tea bags.
2. Let tea steep for about 10 minutes.
3. Remove tea bags and add sugar to hot water, stir until dissolved.
4. Add baking soda and peach nectar and stir.
5. Pour tea mixture into large pitcher and stir in 10 cups of ice water.
6. Stir in 1-2 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
7. Add sliced, fresh peaches and serve over ice.
8. Makes one gallon of peach iced tea.

perniaspopupshop:

The retro do.