HAIL THE PAGES TURNING

misterebby:

jshstwrt:

beccans:

neil-gaiman:

I gave my first ever commencement speech to the graduating class of 2012 at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

I think I told them everything important that I knew about going out into the world and being an artist, so I may never need to give another one.

Remember that time I went here and didn’t graduate this year? This is perfection.

Seriously the most perfect speech. It is terrible that I did not graduate this year and witness this happen right before me. Absolutely beautiful.

This is perfect. Definitely worth spending 20 minutes of your time listening to. 

Absolutely appearing at the right time too. 

priceless advice.

(Source: vimeo.com)

newspaperblackout:

You Can Own This ‘Dewritten’ Book For $345.67 | LitReactor

Kyle MacDonald, the writer who bartered a red paperclip for a house through a series of trades, has a new project: A “dewritten” book.

Inspired by the blackout poetry of Austin Kleon, MacDonald took a book and, using “5 black felt pens and 100 hours,” transformed it into a new work that’s comprised of “more than 352 unique drawings with poems and phrases created using only pre-existing words in the book.”

The book he used was Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys To Transforming the Way We Work and Live by Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes & Catherine McCarthy. The new work is entitled Be Anything. He’s selling it for $345.67 on Etsy.

crumbler:

Among the sincere regrets of my life is that I was not 21 or 22 in 1977, when this monster hit dance floors for the first time. To be in a disco the first time we all heard “I Feel Love” — that undulating synth, matched to the beat of our hearts, surging ahead while Donna Summer cooed in the distance? We would have lost our minds.

“Hot Stuff” is a great song that lives on only as kitsch, but “I Feel Love” is the real deal. I’m not sure any song from the disco era still sounds as urgent today; there’s a reason why Madonna mashed it up with “Future Lovers” for the opening performance of her Confessions on a Dance Floor tour. More than 30 years after it came out, “I Feel Love” still felt like the future. 

Here’s David Bowie: “One day in Berlin … [Brian] Eno came running in and said, ‘I have heard the sound of the future.’ … he puts on ‘I Feel Love’, by Donna Summer … He said, ‘This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.’ Which was more or less right.”

RIP.

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

— Maurice Sendak (via bobulate)

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down-inmexico:

Scissor Sisters - Let’s Have A Kiki

gagging on the eleganza. 

(Source: ren-is-a-mess)

perpetua:

Here’s some amazing footage of the Beastie Boys in action at the Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1999. This video includes “Sure Shot,” “Remote Control” and “The Move.”

(Source: youtube.com)

ALL HAIL THE QUEEN.

(Source: youowneverything)

tyleroakley:

Eat it.

(Source: mattchew03)

John Cleese on the 5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative

minimalmovieposters:

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind by Joel Amat Güell

new Azealia Banks produced by Diplo…serving Missy Elliott realness for the kids.

so ridiculously excited to see her on Tuesday. 

(Source: iamcollectinghomeinspiration)

narcissusskisses:

Rogelio Manzo.Renzo. Oil on canvas.