really nice woodcut & linocut prints by michelle han
really nice woodcut & linocut prints by michelle han
Month: December 2009
There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
Gary Snyder
And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God’s sake, they were blowing peoples’ heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn’t even coffee.
Dennis Miller
ireadintothings: I find it really hard to grasp that I exist in real life, and that I am not just a character from my own autobiography for people to read about. But that’s all that I will be, eventually. I guess as a writer, that’s your aspiration.
(via giannasunshine)
what kind of low life is on twitter, tumblr or facebook today? *blush*
so this is christmas & i’ve got clean up duty… now, where did i put that egg nog?
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
Stephen Wright
watched the nightmare before christmas & strange brew while wrapping gifts… ‘there wasn’t much to do. all the bowling alleys had been wrecked…’ to quote bob mckenzie…
imho, wcqs has the best holiday programing on the radio… listening to ‘festival of nine lessons and carols’…
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
Stephen Wright
In a survey of attitudes toward artists in the U.S. a vast majority of Americans, 96%, said they were greatly inspired by various kinds of art and highly value art in their lives and communities. But the data suggests a strange paradox.
While Americans value art, the end product, they do not value what artists do. Only 27% of respondents believe that artists contribute “a lot” to the good of society.
Further interview data from the study reflects a strong sentiment in the cultural community that society does not value art making as legitimate work worthy of compensation. Many perceive the making of art as a frivolous or recreational pursuit.
Other insights further illuminate the depth of the paradox:
• A majority of parents think that teaching the arts is as important as reading, math, science, history, and geography.
• 95% believe that the arts are important in preparing children for the future.
• In the face of a changing global economy, economists increasingly emphasize that the United States will have to rely on innovation, ingenuity, creativity, and analysis for its competitive edge—the very skills that can be enhanced by engagement with the arts.
i’m feeling this paradox… almost everyday of my life… after two group shows & a solo show, i have yet to sell an original painting… but when i design the cover to a book or cd with original art it seems to be a more acceptable art object…
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway (via bookscakesnkisses) (via booklover) (via bookncoffee)
Wisdom comes with winters.
Oscar Wilde, A Florentine Tragedy (via 52books)
i used to work as an artists assistant to a calligrapher. he used to have pages of vellum samples like this for reference material. it’s from him i learned the traditional form of drawing celtic knotwork (as opposed to the imitation celtic knotwork found in tattoo parlors)…
kunstwissenschaftlerin: medieval: Large illuminated initial. Smaller initials, rubrics, border designs. (1325-1350) via images.nypl.org
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
Turkish Proverb
another photo from our end of the mid-atlantic blizzard of december ‘09… it’s still snowing… expecting another foot of snow by sundown…
photo from our end of the mid-atlantic blizzard of december ‘09
i’m orange peels. i’m coffee grounds. i’m wisdom.
Marjory The Trash Heap, Fraggle Rock, Season 1, Episode 1
a “bitterly agreed upon climate accord in copenhagen” is inked as a way to keep “temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees celsius” & i’m snowed in (over 12 inches & it’s still coming down… expecting 24 inches by nightfall) from a blizzard. almost two years ago i mentioned another ironic event & i’ve come to a completely non-scientific conclusion based on a conspiracy theory: any time al gore goes to copenhagen the u.s.a. experiences a mini ice age.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill (via mellabrown:vereteno:zeastwood-bloom:somethingmoreproductive) (via subcreation)
Coffeehouse Junkie 