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An Electric Toaster circa 1920

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Ghismonda with the heart of Guiscardo detail, (1650) by Bernardino Mei

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“Discipline consists of various techniques, which aim at making the body both docile and useful. The human body becomes a machine, the functioning of which can be optimised, calculated and improved through the internalization of specific patterns of behaviour,” wrote the philosopher Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish.

Don’t we all have friends who are fanatical about skin care and don’t… really (whispers) have great skin? How can that be? It’s simple: the end product of a skin care regimen isn’t perfect skin, but the regimen itself — something that, in high American style, you have to steadily escalate over time, lest you stagnate. Don’t you want to improve?

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most of the time everything sucks but when the sky is blanketed in dark blue-grey clouds after heavy raining and the sun starts to peek through the clouds so that the tops of trees glint pale green and every white structure is starkly, blindingly silhouetted against the sky i’m ok.

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falling asleep while reading a book 1. marek langowiski // 2.3. morgan weistling // 4. malcolm liepke

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They say nothing lasts forever but they’re just scared it will last longer than they can love it.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel (via soracities)

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cant fucking sleep bc wikipedia has separate lists for vampires and for fictional vampires

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Robert Doisneau. Pedestrians Looking at Painting of a Nude in Paris Antique Shop Window, 1948.

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@katy0820

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Our side room is being used as a drying space for the garlic harvest. Almost 250 bulbs all together

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Atelier Vime, design studio

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“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin  (via nervebynerve)