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kevin: The Most Popular Christmas Toys, By Year Since 1960....

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:45:25 -0600

kevin:

The Most Popular Christmas Toys, By Year Since 1960. Full list: via permuto.com, Neatorama.

1983? i totally have that my little pony. way to go, mom and dad.

November 3, 1793

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:02:31 -0600

fuckyeah18thcentury:

Happy Birthday Stephen F. Austin!

happy birthday, indeed.

"London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities,..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:28:34 -0600

“London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.”

- James Geary, On London

(via thebronzemedal)

applearts:Interior design room: 08/09/08 this is bedford square,...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:12:07 -0600

applearts:Interior design room: 08/09/08

this is bedford square, just down the street from my school.

fuckyeahrestorationengland: fuckyeah18thcentury: historicalfash...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:36:30 -0600

fuckyeahrestorationengland:

fuckyeah18thcentury:

historicalfashion:

A silk sacque back gown and petticoat from 1774-1775. At the V&A Museum.

so beautiful.

applearts:Interior design room: 08/04/08 p had the black version...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:34:00 -0500

applearts:Interior design room: 08/04/08

p had the black version of this clock in his old apartment, and it used to drive me bonkers. i always wanted the pieces to be perfectly aligned as a square.

techno-failure

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:52:00 -0500

so i have mini-essay that i have to write for my 4 o’clock class, and i can’t get access to the material i’m meant to write about because the username and password i have for the departmental ftp aren’t working. they’ve worked before, they just aren’t working now. and i’ve tried them on different computers, different browser and ftp clients, etc. always comes back username and password don’t work. even though i’ve got two different handouts from two different classes with the same username and password on them, so it’s not that i wrote it down wrong. and i haven’t received anything saying they’ve been changed. at least, i don’t think i have, but i could be wrong, because my school email server won’t show me my email. so i also can’t write to the other people on my course to find out if they’re having the same trouble i am. and i feel like an idiot writing to the professor to say that i haven’t done the work that’s due in 3 hours because i can’t get the data and could he please confirm the access info. which is what i’m going to have to do now.

damn it. damn it. damn it.

milkglassmao: jasonpermenter: (via Design Milk » Livia...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:29:49 -0500

milkglassmao:

jasonpermenter:

(via Design Milk » Livia Marin Broken Things)

Willow pattern!

you know i can’t resist porcelain.

so i basically cannot do any of things that i need to for school tonight. so, it is 9:08 pm, and i am going to put on my spurs shirt and get in bed. i've set my alarm for 6 am and will just deal with everything tomorrow. i hope.

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:09:33 -0500

please oh please can't any one thing go right today?

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:46:09 -0500

we are starting our dinner with wine and cheese because everything else is too much trouble right now

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:08:02 -0500

applearts: livia marin: ‘broken things’ at house of propellers...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:16:29 -0500

applearts:

livia marin: ‘broken things’ at house of propellers >

thedisgruntledgradstudent: pleasedontsqueezetheshaman: (via...

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:14:24 -0500

thedisgruntledgradstudent:

pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:

(via forntonsmiff)

applearts:On Black: See your photos in a new light (via...

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:19:08 -0500

applearts:On Black: See your photos in a new light (via matt)

this is my mountain.

"So I went to the bar and a couple beers and four or five shots of tequila hopin’ that would..."

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:19:25 -0500

“So I went to the bar and a couple beers and four or five shots of tequila hopin’ that would wake me up or something.”

- the drunk-is-better-than-jetlagged guy next to me

this is why i like to have someone in the bathroom to talk to me while i shower.

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:26:07 -0500

this is why i like to have someone in the bathroom to talk to me while i shower.:

or did you not want to know that?

applearts: London

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:04:12 -0500

applearts:

London

Let's get re-thwarted

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:12:24 -0500

thedisgruntledgradstudent:

bingoparaphernalia:

I think Google may actually be deliberately thwarting my attempts to find images of certain paintings. I refuse to believe that they are not on the internet at all - what is this, 2001? - so I must conclude that it’s a slow day at Google HQ and some bored Google gremlins are repeatedly fucking with me.

Bingo, if you can get jacked into a university network, try artstor.org - it’s good unless you are looking for something really obscure. Sometimes the Grove Dictionary of Art finds things, too, but that also requires an authorized network, either on campus or via a VPN linkup.

depending on what you’re looking for, you might also try the bridgeman art library. although all of their images are stamped and not entirely available for free, they are a pretty comprehensive resource that you don’t need a university to access. museum websites can also be really useful, particularly if you’re looking for something that you know is in a specific collection. the met has the timeline of art history, which is pretty great, and i’ve found a number of images that i needed on the prado’s website. good luck!

52books: The Cure - Just Like Heaven Friday music that has...

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:46:53 -0500

52books:

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Friday music that has nothing to do with books.

my absolute favorite song ever.

"He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time...."

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:10:21 -0500

“He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one’s hands altogether by death.”

- Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter. (via petermartin)