thedailywhat:

Invisible Book Shelf of the Day: The “Self Shelf” from DutchByDesign.
Standard shelf masquerading as a Magritte-referencing book entitled Ceci N’est Pas Un Livre. Comes in three colorways (yellow, blue, red).
[holycool.]

thedailywhat:

Invisible Book Shelf of the Day: The “Self Shelf” from DutchByDesign.

Standard shelf masquerading as a Magritte-referencing book entitled Ceci N’est Pas Un Livre. Comes in three colorways (yellow, blue, red).

[holycool.]


Dostoevsky suicide fears for station

Via abbyjean:

A new metro station named after the famously gloomy Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky has opened in Moscow despite fears it could attract suicides. The station, called Dostoyevskaya, is decorated with brooding grey and black mosaics that depict violent scenes from the 19th-century writer’s best-known novels. One mural re-enacts the moment when the main character in Crime and Punishment murders an elderly pawnbroker and her sister with an axe.

Another shows a suicide-obsessed character in The Demons holding a pistol to his temple. If that was not enough to darken the mood, shadowlike characters are shown flitting across the cavernous new station’s walls and a giant mosaic of a depressed-looking Dostoevsky stares out at passengers.


James Plumb’s cluster chandelier, discovered via Le Divan Fumoir Bohémien.



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Fugazi, “Give Me the Cure”


A sampling of Fulvio Bonavia’s food-as-fashion pieces.

Via bioephemera


Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.

Ezra Pound (who, by the way, had such a wonderful face)

Via wordpainting, via libraryland


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Frank Zappa, “Uncle Remus”



This is a picture of Ernest Hemingway.
All things amazing

This is a picture of Ernest Hemingway.

All things amazing



Via abbyjean:

Doug McCune maps   San Francisco crime in 2009 as if it were elevation. Peaks and  valleys emerge with the rolling terrains of crime. The map  for prostitution is pictured. Nearly all the arrests  for prostitution in San Francisco occur along what I’m calling the  “Mission Mountain Ridge”, which runs up Mission St between 24th and  16th. I love the way the mountain range casts a shadow over much of the  city. There’s also a second peak in the Tenderloin. (FlowingData)
San Francisco crime mapped as elevation

Via abbyjean:

Doug McCune maps San Francisco crime in 2009 as if it were elevation. Peaks and valleys emerge with the rolling terrains of crime. The map for prostitution is pictured. Nearly all the arrests for prostitution in San Francisco occur along what I’m calling the “Mission Mountain Ridge”, which runs up Mission St between 24th and 16th. I love the way the mountain range casts a shadow over much of the city. There’s also a second peak in the Tenderloin. (FlowingData)

San Francisco crime mapped as elevation


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Type O Negative’s Beatles medley: “Day Tripper/If I Needed Someone/I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”