sometimes I can almost feel the power

Frida Kahlo: Retrato de Luther Burbank (detail), 1931.

Autorretrato (Self-Portrait), 1936 by Alfonso Ponce de León

Vladimir Nabokov predicted emoticons in an 1969 interview and little recently has excited me as much as this tidbit.

(p.114, Strong Opinions, Nabokov)

Not only did he predict emoticons, he predicted them being used to communicate that you are a smarmy asshole, their default usage. Seer-tier play.

— Ghost in the Shell 攻殻機動隊 (1995) dir. Mamoru Oshii

i hate seeing people my age pregnant omg abort that thang

A hexagonal storm with a diameter of 25,000 km raging at the north pole of Saturn.

The Vision of Saint Hubert (1890)

— by Franz von Stuck

i hear an american say the word cunt and i immediately want to shrivel up in embarrassment. i just do not think you are good at using that word. due to your nature.

Salman Toor, Three Friends in a Cab, 16 x 20 inches, 2021

"The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."

Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould

Berlin, 1957

Glenn Gould, 1955 Bridgeman Images

by Gordon Parks Glenn Gould, New York, 1956

5000 year old “spider stone” from Denmark