Give Up Everything Give Up Everything

Happy Birthday, Beautiful Thomas Merton.
Some celebratory events listed here.

widgeon ducks, nightjars, green woodpeckers and stonechats

More 1913 - 2013:

Chris Watson in Benjamin Britten's footsteps. Read about and listen to Mr. Watson's piece here. His sound work will premier tomorrow, Fri. 1 Feb. 2013 as part of Aldeburgh Music's PLACE weekend, which runs 1-3 Feb.

a drawing diary.

America Ferrera and Tobias Segal in Laura Marks's new play "Bethany". Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch and presented by Women's Project Theatre at the New York Centre Stage until 17th Feb. 2013.
America Ferrera plays Crystal, a single mother who works as a car saleswoman in an American exurb.

Neisha Crosland
here:
fabric
wallpaper
tile
+
stationery
cushions
scarves

Makié.

Go the Fuck to Sleep

Adam Mansbach's bestseller. 

His new book is Rage Is Back.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Tonight. Two brilliant women host the Golden Globes.

Dr. Oliver Sacks :
"visiting the excellent Herring Museum in northern Iceland! Enchanting."

DOROTHY LOVE COATES

from here.

 

"Shock is good"
- Marcel Duchamp

The shock of 1913:
Suffragettes in NYC, Coco Chanel's cutting of corset laces, Igor Stravinsky's atonal compositions, Kasimir Malevich's Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement

If the changes happening in my life are any indication, 2013 is going to be an incredible year.

 

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
 

— Rainer Maria Rilke

India - fiume Gange

"Nel mio mondo, le grandi speranze vivevano solo fra le pagine di un libro..."

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Mayor Bloomberg made this

Ohne Yitel, Jil Sander and Isabel Marant at Maryam Nassir Zadeh.

 

bests :  Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. 

Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai's cause is one of peace and education. In her father's words she is "the daughter of everybody, the sister of everybody".

Malala is a candidate for Time's 'person of the year'. The magazine ultimately decides, but readers can participate in the poll.