Good morning chai (Taken with instagram)

First instagram, this feels like photocheating (Taken with Instagram at London King’s Cross Railway Station (KGX))

animals-animals-animals:

Inquisitive Quokka (by hewball)

I have a dream.

I dream of a world, in a new language.

In a language of precision.

Precision down to the inch (or millimetre)

Where metaphors become real.

Where they weigh in pound for pound

And moreso to the nearest ounce.

The EU has it sorted; grams at the market.

Do you know what I mean?

i12bent:

George Whitman, long-time proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, the legendary Parisian bookstore started by Sylvia Beach (albeit in a different location) - died yesterday aged 98 in his apartment above the bookshop…

“Amid the maze of tiny rooms with books stacked to the ceilings, cubbyholes with hotplates, moth-eaten rugs, cats, sagging sofas and gilded mirrors, there were beds where impecunious “young writers” could, in return for work, stay the night and be nibbled by, reputedly, the most voracious bedbugs in Paris.

More established writers could stay upstairs in the Writers’ Room, where the beds were more comfortable. Over more than 50 years, Whitman reckoned he had accommodated more than 50,000 guests, ranging from struggling writers such as Alan Sillitoe, to penniless couples and drifters.” — The Telegraph obit. (More)

sad to hear this news. absolutely grand bookshop, hope it carries for generations to come

cracker. the only man to keep his Xmas hat and plastic ring on all night.

i12bent:

Birthday of German painter, Rudolf Schlichter (Dec. 6, 1890 - 1955), who was a member of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement in the 1920s…

“At the end of his Dada-period Schlichter became a representative of the veristic wing of the ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’. Art became his weapon in the political fight against the upper classes and militarism. His favoured sujets were depictions of the city, street scenes, the sub-culture of the intellectual bohème and the underworld, portraits and erotic scenes. At the beginning of the 1930s Schlichter wrote his autobiography in two volumes: ‘Das widerspänstige Fleisch’ and ‘Tönerne Flüsse’. A regime-critical drawing which Schlichter made for the Catholic youth magazine “Junge Front” led to his expulsion from the “Reichskammer der Bildenden Künste” in 1934, other works were confiscated and shown at the exhibition “Entartete Kunst.”” (from bio of Rudolf Schlichter on Art Directory)

Rudolf Schlichter: Sitzende Jenny, 1922/3 (Berlinische Gallerie)

a bit of dix-esque hypersobriety is not a good remedy for a wet fish wednesday evening

Lost in the historical idyll.

i12bent:

Charlie Parker Quintet: The Street Beat from Charlie Parker at Birdland (live bootleg from 1950)

Personnel includes Fats Navarro, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell & Art Blakey

(via mattbrown)

i12bent:

Käthe Kollwitz: Ruf des Todes (Call of Death), 1934/35 - Lithograph (Collection of The Boston Public Library, Print Department)