about to leave for the airport to go to kenya. in 2 days time i’ll be at the baby elephant and giraffe orphanage, and in about a week i’ll be getting some much needed perspective, staying with my dad’s friend kakuta in his maasai community. synonyms for excited?
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance)(Source: r-i-o-t, via revolutionofconsciousness)
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”
The History Boys (via prettybooks)(via ache)
Alexa Meade - Natura Morta. Alexa Meade paints directly onto the body of real people, making them look like a painting that breaks through reality.
(via fueledbythc)
and here commences a week of ultimate and long-overdue chillaxing, au revoir x
product designer based out of New York active in the field of product, furniture, and lighting design
the read-unread bookshelf is constructed of leather straps hung across supports, it physically weighs the balance of books that have been read, against those yet to be read
(via bookshelfporn)
“British artist Keira Rathbone uses typewriters, instead of brushes and pencils, to create amazing portraits and drawings.”
holy goodness.
That is absolutely amazing.
