It’s hard to tell from this image, but there is more than a four foot difference between the top of the garden and the lower portion. It’s still a garden in development using found materials. Most the garden is hand tilled and bordered with limbs and branches and creek stone.
nypl:
Aww, we’re honored to be on this awesome list with such awesome fellow Tumblrers. Thanks Kateopolis!
This is a superior list of superior Tumblr entities. Precious jewels, all.
citadelnow: Our List: The Best News Tumblrs
I’m not going to comment on this ‘list’; instead, here’s mine in no particular order:
Last night at roughly 8:17pm New Yorkers got a chance to experience “Manhattanhenge”, the semiannual occurrence where the setting sun aligns perfectly with east-west streets. If you missed it don’t worry though, a second date this year is expected to take place on Monday, July 11 at 8:25 p.m.
Photo Credit: Anthony Behar/Sipa Press via AP Images
inothernews:Find them here.Remember that scene in “The Rock” where Nicholas Cage injects adrenaline straight into his heart to avoid death by horrible face-melting poison? Tumblr, you are our 12-inch needle of life.
A while back I did a panel on music criticism as part of The Wheeler Centre’s Critical Failure series, with Lawrie Zion, Chris Johnston and Mikey Cahill.
(And yes, I am wearing a Darth Vader hoodie.)
Fluffynotes was there!
Yesterday I tweeted a few words I had to read and record for an audio podcast. I gave away the spelling of one word, ‘cineast.’ But how would you pronounce it? Here’s another challenge. Try to spell the words I read in this podcast without clicking the link to see how they are spelled.
ckck: The first air show at the Grand Palais in Paris, France. September 30th, 1909. Photographed in Autochrome Lumière by Léon Gimpel.
Maybe our favourite quotations say more…
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
P.G. Wodehouse (via libraryland)
Who uses Twitter?
New report: 13% of online adults use Twitter
13% of online adults use the status update service Twitter, which represents a significant increase from the 8% of online adults who identified themselves as Twitter users in November 2010. 95% of Twitter users own a mobile phone, and half of these users access the service on their handheld device.
As in our previous research on Twitter use, African Americans and Latinos continue to have high rates of adoption of the service. Fully 25% of online African Americans use Twitter at least occasionally, with 11% doing so on a typical day.
Additionally, Twitter use by internet users ages 25-34 has doubled since late 2010 (from 9% to 19%) and usage by those ages 35-44 has also grown significantly (from 8% to 14%). Read more…
I choose my own books
But really it’s destiny.
Their stories find me.
alannaevelyn (via prettybooks)
Well, I’ll read a few more than what’s on that shelf.
To be honest, I ran out of supplies for gardening. So the tree limbs and branches are salvaged from winter and spring storms. Each garden section (or box) is hand tilled and mixed with compost.
Every morning I tell myself, Today has to be productive—and then something happens that prevents me from writing.
Italo Calvino (via theparisreview)
You cannot write autobiographically; you cannot write from memory… If one is writing from memory, one is writing ultimately a kind of shapeless, amorphous slice of lifeism.
Stanley Elkin (via theparisreview)
How many book lovers among the young has the Internet produced? Far fewer, I suspect, than the millions libraries have turned out over the last hundred years.
—Charles Simic1
NOTES:
1) Charles Simic, “A Country Without Libraries,” May 18, 2011, The New York Review, accessed May 25, 2011, https://www.nybooks.com/online/2011/05/18/country-without-libraries/
Writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.
Ann Beattie (via theparisreview)
Coffeehouse Junkie 