oh honey, we're ridiculous.

atencio: San Francisco 1905

This is my new favorite youtube video. A long, unedited shot of from a camera mounted on a streetcar traveling down Market street in San Francisco in 1905. It’s one of the clearest examples of urban life from that time period that I’ve ever seen. I’m amazed at how busy and bustling the street is, an assortment of cars, horse-drawn carts, vendors, other streetcars, and people everywhere, nearly all of them dressed in full suits. The video is set to Air’s La Femme D’Argent from the Moon Safari album, which gives the video a dreamlike quality.

sweetssangria: All of these people…are dead, folks. All of them. What did you do today?

There is something really remarkable about this. So many people, outside, active. I was born in the wrong era.

11.29.09 @sweetssangria

#history

thedailywhat: What hath Snuggie wrought?
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Not gonna lie, I really want this thing.

11.29.09 @thedailywhat

#things

I just realized that I give different voices to those of you on tumblr that I don't know in real life. I wonder if any are close to the real thing?

bbygrldreamz: ps. I want noodles and. companyyy

Hahahaha, that’s awesome. I wish I knew what you think I sound like.

11.29.09 @bbygrldreamz

#tumblr

Human beings are form makers, and as such seek a sense of closure, or what others would call wholeness. Craftwork, in developmental terms, enacts that impulse with physical objects, satisfying a psychological desire for closure with tangible results.

There is a terrible blindness in modern society to people who work with their hands, and this leads to class differentiation and even contempt for manual work.

Richard Sennett, in his interview in American Craft Magazine on making.
[rrose-cestlavie]

Wow. Excellent.

11.28.09 @rrose-cestlavie

#art #being an artist

So, here is how it goes, you tag five people on tumblr ( preferably followers ) and if you are tagged you give five facts about yourself...

theavant-gardeplaylist:
1. I’m an English/French major

2. Because of #1…I tend to be a hopeless romantic

3. I love giving gifts to people

4. I speak Japanese

5. I’m a huge hypocrite

againstyourskin
skidmarks
makinchange
holeinthegroundphotos
overcast
eemmaa *so good I had to add a sixth
eastling *icelandic lovers also get v.i.p. 7th spot tags as well

Yay! 7 is a good number.

1. I’m a Metals major. Technically, I’m a Metals & Jewelry major, and I suppose I do make jewelry, but my pieces tend to lean toward the sculptural side rather than the practical, wearable side.

2. I’m a firm believer in gentlemanliness: ladies first, opening doors, walking on the street side, etc. Chivalry is not dead.

3. Things that irritate me: bad drivers, people who take hours to get ready, tourists, being late, people who refuse to try new things, people who take themselves too freaking seriously.

4.Things that I love: choosing the *perfect* gift for someone, really well made mix tapes, thoughtfulness, receiving intangible gifts, good conversation over coffee, winter.

5. Things that I’m not ashamed to admit: I love Twilight, Taylor Swift, and saying JK and BRB in real life.

I shall tag…
Rrose-C’est La Vie
bbygrldreamz
Predatory Wasp Observer
Notational
Anastasia Victoria
(Also Makin Change, even though Ricky already tagged her.)

11.28.09 @theavant-gardeplaylist

#life #tumblr #lists

Man I don’t care what you guys say, I’m about to watch New Moon in the theater. BAM.

11.28.09

You freaky old bastard, you.

11.28.09

#stuck in my head #music videos

You better believe it, you better believe it yo

+ Tonight I ate half a can of chocolate frosting after raiding the fridge and eating bits and pieces of Thanksgiving leftovers
+ The tree is decorated
+ I feel a little sick
+ So far this break I have been accused of bucking the system, bucking every system, being abnormal, having no responsibility, and being a good person
+ I honestly don’t even know what normal looks like, would I like it, I doubt it
+ Do I have to listen to Top 40
+ Can I marry that guy’s mustache
+ I made the purchase of the year today at Goodwill, it involves a gigantic red sweater, a Christmas tree, some stars (possibly snowflakes), and gold sequins
+ You better believe I wore that thing all day long
+ I’m trying to read Borges on a recommendation and he’s not nearly as interesting as I’d hoped
+ I didn’t respond because I don’t need to, right
+ I miss the studio
+ Who the hell misses their classes on break, I mean come on
+ I am not unhappy but I am about to fall into a sugar coma

11.28.09

#life #lists #stream of conscious

I am thankful for my cousin Sami, who has the best personality of anyone I know, should totally be a model, plays the piano like a Julliard grad, and has more ambition than a Harvard freshman. She lives half way around the world right now and I REALLY FREAKING MISS HER, especially since I won’t see her at Christmas. I love this girl so much!

11.27.09

#kthxgiving

Emotions should be like a water from a faucet - slow, steady, constant. But I am a bucket, and when it’s upended, everything comes out at once, fervently; and afterward the bucket is empty and exhausted.

11.26.09

#life

I’m reading The Handmaid’s Tale and Margaret Atwood still amazes me, even in prose. I’m just fascinated by the connections she draws between ideas.

I wait for the household to assemble. Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have and to hold, till death do us part.

The hold of a ship. Hollow.

11.25.09

#books

thedailywhat: This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: The most important unanswered question in the history of mankind finally gets resolved: Man vs. Toddler: Who will come out on top?
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The look on the woman’s face every time… priceless.

11.25.09 @thedailywhat

#absurdity