Nature doesn’t have to come as second nature. Experience is what makes the gardener. The trials, the errors, the joys, the agonies: You’re a gardener when you’ve had your share of it all. -- Catie Marron in The Washington Post
Each of them undergoes there an experience of decreation, or so she tells us. But the telling remains a bit of a wonder. Decreation is an undoing of the creature in us—that creature enclosed in self and defined by self. But to undo self one must move through self, to the very inside of its definition. We have nowhere else to start.
Anne Carson, from Decreation
Lucy Liu on what she hopes people take away from her art
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
(via Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera: Man-Made Moons (1960))
Wonders of Science Simplified. 1943.
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LOKI (2021 - ) 2.05: Science/Fiction dir. Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead
i hope that when i die there will be an apartment with everyone i’ve ever loved in it and we are together always
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.
— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
Raffaella De Laurentiis on working with sandworms in Dune, 1984.
Illustration from РАДИО (Radio) magazine, 1962 issue no 8. The text says something like “space repeaters,” I think in relation to radio relays. The orbiting object resembles Sputnik-3, launched in 1958. The specific radio tower by Moscow on the map is the Shukhov tower.
Ace Double books from the late 50s and early 60s from my grandfather's collection.
each novel is doubled with the opposite cover.
NGC 2174, Mystic Mountain Tops
Van Gogh's Starry Night with the first image taken by the James Webb telescope by alpgenart (via astronomy_eye)
Milan Kunc Starry sky 1987 - 1988 acryl, oil on canvas 250 x 250 cm
Peter Max (American, born Germany 1937), Two Hearts #14, 2001. Acrylic on paper, 19 x 26 in.