happy place

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despair, ennui, signs, work

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augustin rebetez

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art, film, stop motion

VHILS + Shanghai

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art, shanghai, street art

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

-VHILS

via | wooster collective

there’s someone in the nursery…

yeast of eden

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Beer, drinking, saint Patrick, science, yeast

pomplamoose do angry birds

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angry birds, music, pomplamoose

happy birthday, mr. geisel

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art, geisel, pop culture, seuss

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”

via mentalfloss.com

prominent figures

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animation, music, music video, paper

A very charming music video made by animating more than 12,000 pieces of cut paper…

fart scrolls

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art, edo period, farts, japanese culture, scrolls

I think one of these guys is a friend of mine from Chicago.
From Dangerous Minds:

Tofugu posted these curious images from an Edo period (1603 to 1868) Japanese scroll depicting what is called he-gassen or “farting competition.” The images show people happily expelling their gasses at cats, horses and even at each other. Apparently no oneis safe from he-gassen.

Click image for more scrolls.

DFW bday

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art, genius, literature, loss

This would have been David Foster Wallace’s 50th birthday. But the fantods howl no more. If you can read, you must read his work.