{by allison schulnik}

{source}

{via james chapman}

"the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

-joseph campbell

{via karishma}

{via this is glamorous}

{via Love and Peace or Else}

"I leave for New York City tonight to see it for the first time and I feel like I'm revisiting a beautiful lucid dream I had as a kid. Can you feel nostalgia for a place you've never been before?"

-Jake

{via National Geographic}

Never Run Out Of Books To Read.

"There’s so much, you know. I only have one rule when it comes to fiction: I don’t read writers that are worse than me. And that leaves so much to read. I’ll never run out of books. For a fiction writer, that can be the most depressing thing to contemplate. You go to the new fiction table and you just want to kill yourself. You’ve never heard of any of these books, they all look great, and how is anyone going to come across my novel in this sea of fiction that’s being generated? But as a reader it’s just such an awesome thought: you’ll never run out of books to read."

— Ayelet Waldman, author of multiple novels including Red Hook Road and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, lays out her media diet. Read the rest at The Atlantic Wire.

{via The Atlantic}

"It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention." -Conan O'Brien

Paris Air Show, 1909

{via final boss form}

The Agony & Ecstacy of Ideas.

{via brain pickings}

{via photojojo!}

Justin Peck and Janie Taylor, The Block Magazine from Justin Peck on Vimeo.

{via jeana sohn}

So Ready For Summer.

{via frolic!}

{via my modern met}

Bride In Havana.

{via National Geographic}

No-No Words.

{via A Cup of Jo}

Peonies!

{via this is glamorous}

{via jillian tamaki}

{via mimi yip}

Vintage Romance.

{via The Sartorialist}

All Is Well.

When you see a photo like this, what is there to really worry about in the world?

{via National Geographic}

{via Esther Carrera}

{via oh joy!}

Summer's On Its Way.

{via Fifi Lapin}

{via Large Size Paintings}

"To try to be like another is to shrivel our soul."

-Louise L. Hay

{via homerun ballerina}

Pop.

{by Atlantic-Pacific}

{via the infinite fragmented datawaves of oxane}

{via La Dolce Vita}

{via hitRECord & attileerecord}

Well. This looks interesting.

{via wit + delight}

{by melissa shook}

Beginners.

Holy cow, this movie looks awesome.

{via lace & tea}

Sweet Dips.

{via oh joy!}

{via +GoldRush+}

{via Where the Lovely Things Are}

"I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things. But I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS. Follow your passion, follow your heart, and the things you need will come."

-Elizabeth Taylor

You Are A Tourist.

{photo by Roman Lysenko via A Cup of Jo}

{by rosie hardy}

{via fairytale diaries}

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." 

-Marilyn Monroe

{via poppytalk}

No Idea.

{via le love}

{via pink kitten}

"i want to go where the streets end and adventure begins."

-kobi yamada

hitRECord for Japan.

Received my red REC buttons in the mail for donating to Japan via the coolest creative community on the web.

Boo.

I will never get enough of this dog.

Gentle on the Keys.

{via twentythree}

Yeats: A Man of Priorities.

{illustrated by Jillian Tamaki}

Menagerie.

{via Where the Lovely Things Are}

Goodbye, Pretty Eyes.

{via Art & Artifact}

“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.”

 

— Nick Hornby

Whole Wide World

A very sweet artist that I've come to love thanks to NieNie. She's also performing at The Hotel Cafe on April 14!

Paris Street Style.

{via Lace & Tea}

Trickster Guru.

"Now a trickster guru is certainly an illusionist, but one might ask 'What else is art?' If the universe is nothing but a vast Rorschach blot upon which we project our collective measures and interpretations, and if past and future has no real existence, an illusionist is simply a creative artist who changes the collective interpretation of life, and even improves on it. Reality is mostly what a people or a culture conceives it to be. Money, worthless in itself, depends entirely on collective faith for its value. The past is held against you only because others believe in it, and the future seems important only because we have conned ourselves into the notion that surviving for a long time, with painstaking care, is preferable to surviving for a short time with no responsibility and lots of thrills. It is really a matter of changing fashion."

-Alan Watts

Splendor in the Grass.

On Sunday, I accompanied the lovely Jackie Jones on her photo shoot adventure with the talented Mimi Yip for a day of rolling hills, green grass, formal wear, an old typewriter, a ladybug & some sunflowers. Basically, the perfect Sunday.

p.s. how gorgeous does Jackie look? Hello, bombshell! :)