A Very Sensible Place

Airborne, Diane. Remind me the next time I fly to bring along a Thermos of coffee from the office. The mixture they serve seems to be a combination of hickory, pine bark, and a mystery ingredient that eludes identification. I also suggest if you ever are offered salmon crepes for a meal on a commercial carrier that you make sure that salmon ran upstream sometime within the last decade.

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—	The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes (via renmorris)

victoriousvocabulary:

SOVEREIGN

[noun]

1. a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.

2. a person who has supreme power or authority.

3. a group or body of persons or a state having sovereign authority.

4. a gold coin of the United Kingdom, equal to one pound sterling: went out of circulation after 1914.

[adjective]

5. belonging to or characteristic of a sovereign or sovereign authority; royal.

6. having supreme rank, power, or authority.

7. supreme; preeminent; indisputable.

8. greatest in degree; utmost or extreme.

9. being above all others in character, importance, excellence, etc.

Etymology: Middle English soverain < Old French soverain < Vulgar Latin *superānus.

[Laurie Lipton]

lopystre:

itbitesshesaid:

wryer:

White Roses, Vincent Van Gogh (1890)

originally pink roses. don’t use shitty pigment, kids.

#the colour book is teaching me a lot #van gogh got angry about bad pigment #but turner gave no damns so long as it looked right in the moment #if it faded three weeks later that was your problem not his

that’s… really interesting, I should read this book.

I’m with Turner, to be honest, but one of the things I miss about doing traditional works is, uh, volatile pigments. my career in ceramics was not storied (I made one nice vase that my mother now puts flowers in, that was enough) but I always enjoyed the stage that was PAINT THE THING, NOW PUT THE THING IN A TERRIFICALLY HOT OVEN AND SEE HOW YOUR PAINTING LIKES BEING BURNED AND MELTED.

imprecise:

Chaser

puddingtea:

Oui.

blackpaint20:

Thank you lyndsayghughes for sharing!

Contemporary Japanese artist Takato Yamamoto creates highly detailed paintings in the style of the Ukiyo-e masters.

More at yamamototakato.com

newvagabond:

piptart:

flapper fawn

her ears are tied up to resemble a cloche hat that was worn by flappers in the 1920s

now i sleep =v=

Pip, wtf, this is the cutest thing.

victoriousvocabulary:

SYMPTOSIS

[noun]

1. local or general atrophy.

2. wasting away; emaciation.

3. a gradual wasting away of the body or of any organ or part of the body.

Etymology: Greek sýmptōsis - a falling together, collapse.

[Skirill]