“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
—Pablo Picaso
March 2013
2 posts
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
—Frida Kahlo (via explore-blog)
February 2013
1 post
January 2013
3 posts
“Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.”
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(via photojojo)
November 2012
1 post
“Fear…keeps thousands of pictures from passing through the lens.”
—John Durniak, former photo editor of The New York Times (via photojojo)
June 2012
1 post
“We use novels, not old newspapers, to get a sense of what life was like 100 years ago. I believe 100 years from now, future generations will still use novels the same way. They’ll use novels, not tweets or posts like this. And they’ll use the rich ones — the ones that have things to say things about culture and politics, the ones that absorb and synthesize.”
—Robin Sloan, writing for The New York Times, on the future of fiction.
April 2012
2 posts
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
“In the classes I teach there is always a student who announces that photographs lie. “They do?” I ask. “When was the last time one lied to you?” The answer always turns out to be that the caption was wrong or an advertising slogan was not to be believed or the scene recorded ran counter to the viewer’s expectations. No one has yet remembered a photograph lying on its own, but I remember the last time I was lied to by a human who looked me in the eye and told me something we both knew was not true.”
—John Loengard, from Pictures Under Discussion (via photosfromfilm)
March 2012
1 post
February 2012
4 posts
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
— Robert Capa (via life)
“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”
—W. Eugene Smith (via life)
January 2012
14 posts
reveurconstant replied to your post: Someone has been very fussy today and aside from…
Is he teething? That’ll do it. :(
He’s been teething since about 2 months. Nothing’s really come up tho. I worked yesterday so he had bottles, which makes him extra gassy, so that’s part of it, too. He passed out while staring at himself a little bit ago, so its quite now :)
Someone has been very fussy today and aside from letting him cry himself into a nap, the only thing that has calmed him has been starting at a gif of himself. Crazy baby. Won’t let me sit him on his play mat with the mirror, though.
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition.”
—Graham Greene
December 2011
12 posts
November 2011
8 posts
I lost a child to the Occupy movement. →
itsallgone.tumblr.com
Just thirteen days ago I was eight months pregnant.
Everyone loved rubbing my belly.
I even wore my “Baby On Board” shirt over my gigantic stomach.
Seriously, America?: BREAKING: Jeniffer Fox, the 3 Month Pregnant woman who was pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle has miscarried. →
seriouslyamerica.tumblr.com
“I was screaming, ‘I am pregnant, I am pregnant. Let me through. I am trying to get out.’” At that point, Fox continues, a Seattle police officer lifted his foot…
“Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and scary shit can break out at any moment, just because I told some random asshole “no” without bothering to be nice about it. Doing that is so dangerous that most women don’t dare; after a few scary incidents, they learn to make up excuses, to smile, to be sweet and welcoming, to act as if every single random asshole on the street is a precious new friend that they would just LOVE to stand outside of the Chipotle and chat with FOR HOURS, if only cruel fate had not intervened. That’s what it’s actually like, being a woman: Playing nice with every random asshole, because this random asshole might be the one who hurts you. And then, if he hurts you anyway, they’ll tell you that you led him on.”
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Tiger Beatdown (via pnasty)
This is so relevant to everything.
(via mindyshabibti)
“A strong female character isn’t defined by how good she looks while kicking ass. A strong female character is defined by much, much more than that. A strong female character is defined by why she is kicking so much ass. Is she kicking ass because someone insulted her at a bar or is she out there, destroying evil doers because they hurt her loved ones?”
—The Roleplayer’s Lament. (via prochoiceorfuckoff)
“No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.”
—Frederica Mathewes-Green (via moderndayophelia)
