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reuterspictures: Thomas Peter’s blog on Poolside floods “At...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:11:24 -0400

Thomas Peter’s blog on Poolside floods

“At some point the helicopter made a right turn, dipping the side I was sitting on deep below the horizon. And there it was right below me, the epitome of the absurd flood picture: the baby-blue oval of a swimming pool evenly surrounded by muddy water. I trained my 300mm lens straight down and composed as well as I could, which was a challenge in the soaring air stream that nearly snatched my camera out of my hands. I fired off some 10 frames before the chopper leveled out. The picture was gone. No one else on board had seen it.”

littledidiknow: Ghetto supastar, that is what you are Comin...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:11:19 -0400

littledidiknow:

Ghetto supastar, that is what you are
Comin from afar, reachin for the stars
Run away with me, to another place
We can rely on each other, uh huh
From one corner to another, uh huh

Does everyone already know about this??

What??????

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:11:07 -0400

littledidiknow: John McLaughlin, 1961

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:11:02 -0400

littledidiknow:

John McLaughlin, 1961

anexperimentinreading: Their hearts had in some way touched...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:20:11 -0400

anexperimentinreading:

Their hearts had in some way touched across two feet of Paris sunlight.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up”

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:07:58 -0400

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”

- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Happy Father’s Day! This quote, from the classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is spoken by protagonist Scout on her father and one of our favorite literary fathers, Atticus Finch. Who are some of your favorite literary dads?

Also, don’t forget to get your dad a Father’s Day gift! A gift from the NYPL gift shop is the perfect way to tell your dad how much you appreciate all of his fatherly duties!

(via nypl)

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:27:32 -0400

"It would be a long while because, quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:30:16 -0400

“It would be a long while because, quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later – because I did not belong there, did not come from there – but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs. I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month.”

- Joan Didion, “Goodbye To All That” (via commovente)

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:28:28 -0400

buzzfeed: Delicious and nutritious.

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:28:12 -0400

buzzfeed:

Delicious and ~~nutritious~~.

riverdalepodcast: Another Afterlife with Archie variant, this...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:26:23 -0400

riverdalepodcast:

Another Afterlife with Archie variant, this time drawn by Andrew Pepoy and brought to us by FEARnet. This is the most NSFW thing I’ve ever posted. I’ll be talking about all of these covers and all of this week’s crazy announcements on Saturday’s new episode!

Veronica! Zombified

lpcoverlover: Happy to be nappy Plas Johnson “Dance Party in...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:18:54 -0400

lpcoverlover:

Happy to be nappy

Plas Johnson “Dance Party in Harlem” London Records (France)

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huffingtonpost: etsy: tmagazine: The artist Lei Xue’s...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:14:10 -0400

huffingtonpost:

etsy:

tmagazine:

The artist Lei Xue’s ‘‘Drinking Tea’’ series (2007-13) consists of crumpled porcelain cans decorated with traditional Chinese patterns. See the world in blue and white here.

Courtesy of Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Cool.

Whoa!