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“Gavel’s family doesn’t understand the nature...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:12:54 -0500

“Gavel’s family doesn’t understand the nature of his work but they’re proud of his success.”

Cyanea capillata (lion’s mane jellyfish, the largest known...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:40:00 -0500

Cyanea capillata (lion’s mane jellyfish, the largest known species of jellyfish) by Alexander Semenov. See his flickr and website for more sea creatures.

(via Colossal via @polm23)

Antiques

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:02:38 -0500

Antiques

Winter in the South Bay

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:02:11 -0500

Winter in the South Bay

Giant zucchini. October. Berkeley, CA.

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:24:47 -0400

Giant zucchini. October. Berkeley, CA.

I allow myself to be sentimental about foliage and snow after...

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:06:58 -0400

I allow myself to be sentimental about foliage and snow after listening to Californians complain about cold weather for four years in school.

Tiny pancakes.

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:20:33 -0400

Tiny pancakes.

from Portraits of Fish by Ian Bickford

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:15:33 -0400

Because I’ve been indoors all morning,
the windows stone-white
with the mist from the bath
water; because

the first cycle is never enough
to dry the laundry;
because the teakettle whistling
has woken me from where I doze

on the sofa, I rake
my hair, button my shirt,
and sit at the table
with a red pen to make notes

in a notebook. But in the absence
of language, I draw the outlines
of fish instead, page after
page, snapper and mackerel. Fins,

wide eyes, bodies so long
they threaten the edges of the paper.
I draw no ocean around them.
The fish contain the ocean.

…read the rest

(via yesyes)

betterbooktitles: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway This blog is a...

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:42:23 -0400

betterbooktitles:

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

This blog is a goldmine.

Half Moon Bay, CA Ran this through pixlr-o-matic since it was a...

Mon, 30 May 2011 03:14:00 -0400

Half Moon Bay, CA

Ran this through pixlr-o-matic since it was a crappy cell phone photo anyway. I swear I have a legitimate camera; I just hate carrying things around.

"However can you expect to understand the bigness of the world if you do not see the ocean?"

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:37:40 -0400

“However can you expect to understand the bigness of the world if you do not see the ocean?”

- Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World

Alum Rock Park. Seeing the hills before they turn all brown and...

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:44:28 -0400

Alum Rock Park. Seeing the hills before they turn all brown and fire-prone in the summer. You can kind of see the valley; I hear there’s silicon down there.

are a majority of the drawings on this blog original? they're AMAZING:)

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:37:00 -0400

Thanks! If it’s not a reblog or it doesn’t have links to any sources, it’s original.

via dannielle: nevver: Page Tsou source

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:32:00 -0400

via dannielle:

nevver:
Page Tsou

source

Things that are great: graph paper, trees.

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:57:11 -0400

Things that are great: graph paper, trees.

I remember

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:17:26 -0500

By the first of August
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was
as tough as hemp and was
no color–no more than
the sand was a color and
we had worn our bare feet
bare since the twentieth
of June and there were times
we forgot to wind up your
alarm clock and some nights
we took our gin warm and neat
from old jelly glasses while
the sun blew out of sight
like a red picture hat and
one day I tied my hair back
with a ribbon and you said
that I looked almost like
a puritan lady and what
I remember best is that
the door to your room was
the door to mine.

— Anne Sexton

(via yesyes)

collage-y thing by Alessandro Maffioletti aka alvvino

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:02:24 -0500

collage-y thing by Alessandro Maffioletti aka alvvino

Connecticut by Meg Hunt 50 AND 50 IS A COLLECTIVE, CURATED...

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:21:00 -0500

Connecticut by Meg Hunt

50 AND 50 IS A COLLECTIVE, CURATED PROJECT WHERE FIFTY DESIGNERS ARE INVITED TO REPRESENT THEIR STATE BY ILLUSTRATING ITS MOTTO.

Home state.

by cole rise (via graphic-exchange)

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:42:58 -0500

by cole rise (via graphic-exchange)

double exposure + vector overlay by Dan Mountford (via fffound)

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:57:37 -0500

double exposure + vector overlay by Dan Mountford (via fffound)