December 2011
3 posts
Unbest: About Unbest →
unbest:
The problem
Designating something as “the best” can be tricky, especially when it comes to music, which occupies such intensely personal space in our human lives—even among folks who deal with it professionally (or “professionally,” some/they might say).
There’s a place in this world for…
Look what my sister made! Give it a good think and submit something to it.
November 2011
2 posts
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak
I think of this story often (it is one of my favorites) as a reminder of two things
No matter how famous you are, or how important you might become never lose the ability to be surprised and touched by the love of strangers.
Remember the love you had for things as a child, one...
October 2011
20 posts
I wrote about Joe's & my wedding for A Practical... →
rachael-maddux:
Mostly re: anxiety & joy but also booze, sweat & an Egg McMuffin.
(Semi-relatedly, I haven’t yet landed on a way to refer to something as belonging to both Joe and me that doesn’t feel seriously clunky: “Joe’s and my” I guess is the correct way to say it but that also feels weird. “Me and Joe’s” is grammatically horrific, I know, but it feels more natural...
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“Don’t draw eyes, noses and mouths but put on a splotch of paint the size...”
– Underpaintings: Words of Wisdom: DeCamp and Sargent
Watchederlezi:
Casey Yoshida, y’all.
<3
s: so, this is my life: i am reading this woman’s twitter feed of things her adorable three-year-old daughter says. k: sarah, last night i wrote a story about soup. it’ll be okay. this is kit, y’all, and sometimes he writes stories about soup. he’s not allowed to be mad at me for pointing this out, because he puts them on the internet himself.
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I'm a baker! →
bluelightsix:
haleysiler:
“I like cooking, and I’m decent at it, mostly because it’s less about following directions and more about having a sort of loose idea of what things go together, how long they take to cook, and what they look like when they’re done. I dislike cookbooks and regard recipes as suggestions, not rules.”
I like baking for the reasons the author (and my boyfriend)...
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September 2011
68 posts
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“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and...”
– William Faulkner, 1956 Paris Review interview ( Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be artists.)
it is a brother will kind of day, apparently. his birthday was earlier this week. i should have had a cocktail in his honor, but i can never remember which ones he had decided were indoors drinks,...
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cheatingdeath asked: diggin your tumblr! uglow <3
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Ed Emberley – Drawing Lessons
austinkleon:
From the Drawing Book of Animals, I believe:
recuperate:
Perfect.
Get the book →
always loved this. also the thumbprint one.
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