vintagegal:

Illustration by Charles S. Anderson design

cavalier:

Wantful

Give the kind of gift you’ve always wanted. 

I very much like the way this looks.

Who made this? I love it.

visualamor:

brookeduckart:

Jaw-dropping paper-cut work! The inspiring talent of Elaine Penwell.

[Via - http://supersonicelectronic.com/tagged/elaine_penwell ]

oh man, fuck that shit….

This person would need a wrist brace after all that incredible detail. And I assume lots and lots of practice. Here’s to my sheer admiration causing all tendons (etc) to return to their former glory!

tulletulle:

missworld:

sisterhoodispowerful:

foreigntongue:

nolansmock:“Drinking tea” 2007 Lei Xue

explodingdog:

you are beautiful!

i am a little church(no great cathedral)
far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities
-i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,
i am not sorry when sun and rain make april

my life is the life of the reaper and the sower;
my prayers are prayers of earth’s own clumsily striving
(finding and losing and laughing and crying)children
whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness

around me surges a miracle of unceasing
birth and glory and death and resurrection:
over my sleeping self float flaming symbols
of hope,and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains

i am a little church(far from the frantic
world with its rapture and anguish)at peace with nature
-i do not worry if longer nights grow longest;
i am not sorry when silence becomes singing

winter by spring,i lift my diminutive spire to
merciful Him Whose only now is forever:
standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence
(welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)

- e.e. cummings

Daniela Sea

It evolved quickly when I realized what freedom I’d have. As a man, I could ask questions and walk around at night. I felt it would give me better access to the culture. I don’t feel anyone suspected anything. I never felt threatened, like I do here. [On living as a man in India.]