bdwade:

holy. shit.

saras-scrapbook:

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” - J.K. Rowling

Perfect quote.

Is it for your phone?

jothelibrarian:

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is the Black Hours, one of a very few manuscripts on vellum that is dyed black. This image is of folios 18v and 19r shows Whitsun (also known as Pentecost).

For a digital exhibition, take a look at the Pierpont Morgan library website.

Image source: Free Christ Images website, and licensed for re-use with attribution.

unknownskywalker:

Tidying Up Art by Ursus Wehrli

Wehrli takes everyday scenes of disorder and rearranges them into neat rows, sorted by different attributes such as color, size, shape, and type, etc.

This is beautiful for OCD people like me.

justinroygoose:

Future Tattoo.

This is called the World Tree. It shows the Underworld, the Middle World, and the Upper World.

acaskofbrando:

classicalliterature:

Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky lays flowers on Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’s grave in Järvenpää, Finland, on September 10, 1961.

Here come the tears.

psychoticpianist:

this is probably the cheesiest gift i have ever created for anybody at any point in my life. but that’s okay!

This is so beautiful

ebmajor:

brokofiev:

rubber—-soul:

this is perfect oh my gosh

This way, a string quartet could travel with one case. It’s brilliant.

But then who gets to carry the case?

(Source: portailblog)

pigtailsandcombatboots:

deantrippe:

heyoscarwilde:

H.P. Lovecraft and Nikola Tesla: Paranormal Investigators

Illustration by Travis Pitts :: via zom-bot

Boom. This wins.

Love.

brain-food:

Mette Rankin, of Bureau of Betterment, recently com­pleted some iden­tity and illus­tra­tion work for Well Vegan, a web­site that caters to hun­gry veg­ans who want to eat healthily.

YES BOLIN, YES

(Source: ohrenly)