Cool photo of Toronto guest starring in Stephen King’s The Mist on Imgur. Wow, my home all mystical and stuff. Courtesy of francine & dreaminginthedeepsouth.

Cool photo of Toronto guest starring in Stephen King’s The Mist on Imgur. Wow, my home all mystical and stuff.

Courtesy of francine & dreaminginthedeepsouth.

(via francine-deactivated20110318)

Carl Svantje Hallbeck : Njommelsaska i Lappland (1856). From uncertaintimes

Carl Svantje Hallbeck : Njommelsaska i Lappland (1856). From uncertaintimes

My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.
Patricia Highsmith, New Year’s Eve, 1947 (via: buffleheadcabin & mlq3)
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Seth Godin - The first rule of doing work that matters

Go to work on a regular basis.

Art is hard. Selling is hard. Writing is hard. Making a difference is hard.

When you’re doing hard work, getting rejected, failing, working it out—this is a dumb time to make a situational decision about whether it’s time for a nap or a day off or a coffee break.

Zig taught me this twenty years ago. Make your schedule before you start. Don’t allow setbacks or blocks or anxiety to push you to say, “hey, maybe I should check my email for a while, or you know, I could use a nap.” If you do that, the lizard brain is quickly trained to use that escape hatch again and again.

Isaac Asimov wrote and published 400 (!) books using this technique.

The first five years of my solo business, when the struggle seemed neverending, I never missed a day, never took a nap. (I also committed to ending the day at a certain time and not working on the weekends. It cuts both ways.)

In short: show up.

Kick in the ass brought to you by uncertaintimes, who added:

Start that business, finish those projects, write more words, make more art, read more books, do more, see more, live more life. Maybe if more of us do, Tumblr won’t be so incredibly sorry all the time.

Happy New Year. For those of you rocking it, rock on. For those of you getting it going, get it going. 2011 is your year.

Mary Judge, Oculus Series. From lushlight & idiotequed:.

Mary Judge, Oculus Series. From lushlight & idiotequed:.

Adam Block, Still Life with NGC 2170, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona“In this beautiful celestial still life composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170 shines at the upper left. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a compact red emission region, and streamers of obscuring dust against a backdrop of stars. Like the common household items still life painters often choose for their subjects, the clouds of gas, dust, and hot stars pictured here are also commonly found in this setting - a massive, star-forming molecular cloud in the constellation Monoceros. The giant molecular cloud, Mon R2, is impressively close, estimated to be only 2,400 light-years or so away. At that distance, this canvas would be about 15 light-years across.” from aubade

Adam Block, Still Life with NGC 2170, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona

“In this beautiful celestial still life composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170 shines at the upper left. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a compact red emission region, and streamers of obscuring dust against a backdrop of stars. Like the common household items still life painters often choose for their subjects, the clouds of gas, dust, and hot stars pictured here are also commonly found in this setting - a massive, star-forming molecular cloud in the constellation Monoceros. The giant molecular cloud, Mon R2, is impressively close, estimated to be only 2,400 light-years or so away. At that distance, this canvas would be about 15 light-years across.”

from aubade

Think about how much of our bodies and minds have archaeological traces within them from hundreds of thousands, and millions, of years ago. Think about how some objects—some grasses, some trees, the gaze of watching lifeforms, the open sky—conditioned our bodies and minds.
Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature: Neolithic (tnx wildcat2030)

(Source: amiquote)

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” —E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web Photo via Vintage Photo. Post courtesy of liquidnight

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

—E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

Photo via Vintage Photo. Post courtesy of liquidnight

Imagine if all the tumult of the body were to quiet down, along with our busy thoughts.
Imagine if all things that are perishable grew still.
And imagine if that moment were to go on and on,
leaving behind all other sights and sounds but this one vision
which ravishes and absorbs and fixes the beholder in joy,
so that the rest of eternal life were like that moment of illumination
which leaves us breathless.
Saint Augustine, from The Beauty We Love
“We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.” —Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes Anonymous, NYC Archives, 1937 [photo via The New York Times Lens Blog] Yet another stunning photograph married to an equally remarkable quote from liquidnight, who is so devilishly good at this sort of thing.

“We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.”

—Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Anonymous, NYC Archives, 1937 [photo via The New York Times Lens Blog]

Yet another stunning photograph married to an equally remarkable quote from liquidnight, who is so devilishly good at this sort of thing.