July 2012
Model: me (Marta M. - Crushed Rose)I love low-backed bathing suits.
Daily Dishonesty by Lauren Nicole Hom
Lauren’s Daily Dishonesty typographic series celebrates those little lies we tell ourselves and others, with the complete understanding that we’re all bullshitting each other, but in accepting, we grant ourselves the right to get away with the same fabrications at a later time and date. Prints available at Society6
Artist: Website / Tumblr (via: Lost at E Minor)
Tashiro-jima (or Tashirojima), 田代島, is a small island in Japan. It has become known as “Cat Island” due to the large stray cat population that thrives as a result of the local belief that feeding cats will bring wealth and good fortune. The cat population is now larger than the human population on the island.
There is a small cat shrine Neko-jinja(猫神社) in the middle of the island, roughly situated between the two villages. In the past, the islanders raised silkworms for silk, and cats were kept in order to keep the mouse population down (because mice are a natural predator of silkworms). Fixed-net fishing was popular on the island after the Edo Period and fishermen from other areas would come and stay on the island overnight. The cats would go to the inns where the fishermen were staying and beg for scraps. Over time, the fishermen developed a fondness for the cats and would observe the cats closely, interpreting their actions as predictions of the weather and fish patterns. One day, when the fishermen were collecting rocks to use with the fixed-nets, a stray rock fell and killed one of the cats. The fishermen, feeling sorry for the loss of the cat, buried it and enshrined it at this location on the island.
There are at least ten cat shrines in Miyagi Prefecture. There are also 51 stone monuments in the shape of cats.
heaven does exist
(Source: niuniente, via eftsip)
Hundreds of spinning blades reveal the invisible patterns of the wind in American artist Charles Sowers’ kinetic installation on the facade of the Randall Museum in San Francisco.
via dezeen
OOOOOOOOOO SCIENCE!
File under- Things to stand in front of all day long/ Better pack a lunch.
(via dancing-with-diversity)
“the heart book” (denmark ~1550)
the heart book is regarded as the oldest danish ballad manuscript. it is a collection of 83 love ballads compiled in the beginning of the 1550’s in the circle of the court of king christian III.
(via bookporn)
Brand New vs. Dashboard Confessional - The Quiet Things/Screaming Infidelities
ARE YOU KIDDING RIGHT NOW the 15 year old in me is sobbing and rolling around on the floor this is so great
(Source: iwouldvestolenyouawholeorchestra, via guerni-ca)