Rachel Profiling

Katja Mater, Body of Light, 2006. Katja’s photos play...

Mar 3rd

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patrickmoberg: zoya: Yann Tiersen  — La Boulange

Mar 1st

Lost: The Time-Loop Theory

Feb 29th

Michael Huelin, Grass Bug 5, 2008.

Feb 29th

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Apes and Androids - We Don’t Understand You FYI: Apes and Androids are perhaps the sickest...

Feb 29th

“The solution is not to swing entirely toward the hive mind,...”
— Andrew Taylor, The Artful...

Feb 28th

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The New York City Ballet now has its own YouTube Channel. Way to go, cultural institutions!

Feb 28th

idonahue: this is one of my favorite things ever.  brian...

Feb 28th

Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, The Bank. Victoria consistently...

Feb 28th

party at the natural history museum! there is...

Feb 28th

Thanks guys, flattered.

Feb 27th

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Francis and the Lights - Striking Elz introduced this band to me as “dudes who sort of just...

Feb 27th

Justin Ouellette (Chromogenic.net)

Feb 27th

“From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose...”
— F. Scott. F. Perhaps some of...

Feb 27th

NewsClipper

Feb 27th

Alana Celii. Travels.

Feb 26th

Argh.

Accidentally deleted my Apes and Androids audio post because I thought I was rehosting a song that...

Feb 26th

OH MY GOD THIS IS THE CUTEST VIDEO EVER...

(via doree): It involves a lion. A real lion! If you don’t think this is the cutest video ever made...

Feb 26th

Sally Mann, Untitled from At Twelve, 1988.

Feb 25th

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Juliana Hatfield - Spin the Bottle Because I felt like it.

Feb 25th

“The city we have now is the one we deserve, the coagulation...”
— Speaking of Luc Sante…

Feb 25th

luc sante has a great blog

Feb 25th

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The National - Karen.  Tonight I went to see one of my very favorite bands, The National, at...

Feb 23rd

the best possible situation to come home...

you turn on the tv to the exact scene in friends where ross cannot get his leather pants back on and...

Feb 23rd

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Be Good Tanyas - Broken Telephone  It’s easy for me to forget that I am from a small western...

Feb 22nd

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Laura Marling - My Manic & I I love her creepy Edward Gorey anemic-Alice quality. Laura is one...

Feb 22nd

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So I am getting really excited for Bravo’s new dance show. I am a total sucker for anything...

Feb 22nd

41 Awesome Science Fair Experiments This kid totally won. 

Feb 22nd

(via postsecret via emily). Hah.

Feb 22nd

What my mother thinks of my life in NYC...

Me: It wasn't the BEST day.
Mom: You know there aren't any bad days..it is always good to wake up each morning and see the sun....WORK SUCKS!!!!!!
Me: yeah i mean everything is so up in the air right now.
Mom: It is just your microcosm..look beyond. Be the eagle that soars over your life. Namaste. (ed note: I have to assume sarcasm here)
Me: Well right now i feel a little hedged in by my own microcosm
Mom: Well it is fiction or illusion..I live in NM and I see your world totally differently. Do what makes you excited to get up in the morning.
Me: so how do you see my world?
Mom: I see that people in NYC believe that they are in the epicenter. But I think that all of the US is deluded. The energy in the world lies in Asia. (ed note: mom just went to china and is obsessed with asia now).
Me: youre probably right about that
Me: were all just little rats running on our own wheels
Mom: It is odd that you use that analogy...I wrote that I see New Yorkers somewhat like hamsters on a wheel but I decided it was harsh and I deleted it.
Me: its not harsh unfortunately
Mom: Life is short. You need to breath and enjoy the world . You need to value the positive contributions of man (arts and letters) and help the suffering. You need to be able to live and support yourself but that is about it. Deadlines and stress and etc are unimportant unless they work toward something of value.
AND SCENE. (and btw...arts and letters? i love my mother.)

Feb 21st

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still f-ing love this song.

Feb 21st

Why are all my friends acting elderly?

adam: i don't keep those verkakte hours!
adam: by 8:15 i will be in bed with eustice tilly

Feb 21st

joakim eskildsen, Træer.

Feb 21st

“But sometimes they just think too deeply about stuff....”
— Andre 3000 to Complex (link)...

Feb 21st

You can love your house. Just don't LOVE...

Apparently, people are hiring professional photographers (along the lines of Todd Eberle) to shoot...

Feb 21st

I saw an early preview of In the Heights this week, and I...

Feb 21st

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Ghosthustler-Only Me to Trust. Ok, so Texas’ Ghosthustler is kind of awesome.

Feb 21st

jacksonpollock.org

Feb 21st

Cristina, full of grace

Cristina: don't talk about your job on dates
that is lame.
think about what "stuffwhitepeoplelike" might recommend, you know
talk about hiking and shit
and how beautiful the sky is
and how the lunar eclipse moved you to tears
i think i'm gonna try to talk about my latina studies on this next date
and see how he deals

Feb 20th

[Yann Gross, Horizonville]

Feb 20th

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The 1900s - Two Ways Not to be confused with the 1990s, the 1900s are pretty much all I’ve...

Feb 19th

Beat the Devil

Feb 18th

I visited Erica’s studio in Brooklyn this weekend and...

Feb 18th

Tina Tyrell. Westminster.

Feb 18th

London’s Lucy Oldfield. I would like her to someday...

Feb 18th

Cotillion Blues

Feb 18th

O. Rufus Lovett. Easter Egg, 1966.

Feb 18th

Stuff White People Like

There are a few websites that friends direct me to and I wonder how I lived without them for so...

Feb 15th

Sort of want one of these today.

Feb 15th

I made myself some valentines today. Feel free to pass them...

Feb 14th

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Feb 14th

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John Lennon - Oh Yoko Because somewhere deep down you wanted to hear one of the best love songs...

Feb 14th

This warms my little heart to no end.

Feb 14th

If I had the wherewithal to buy myself a V-day gift this...

Feb 13th

“Lacking spiritual sustenance, there is genuine hunger and...”
— Marion Woodman. Lately, I...

Feb 13th

Spielberg withdraws as artistic advisor for...

Feb 13th

If you want to make a beautiful woman look even more so,...

Feb 13th

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Billie Holiday - I Cover the Waterfront (1951) I don’t care what anyone says. If you are a...

Feb 13th

I know Fashion Week is over (and came and went without much...

Feb 13th

OBAMARAMA

Yes.

Feb 13th

Dina Kantor, Isabella, Helsinki. 2006 (part of her excellent...

Feb 13th

“Try to maintain some distance. Just scribbling away...”
— Legendary Knopf editor Gary...

Feb 13th

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hrrrthrrr: La Blogotheque: Vampire Weekend - The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance This really cemented for...

Feb 13th

People whose style I’d like to emulate (at least a...

Feb 12th

“If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve...”
— Charles Bukowski (via...

Feb 11th

Jessie Bruah, Stories 2. Jessie lives and works in Brooklyn...

Feb 11th

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The Dodos - Fools Experimental San Francisco rock band that has been gaining a lot of traction on...

Feb 11th

The Gates:HBO

Feb 11th

Why hello, 1985.

I wound up eating dinner at the Odeon last night (they actually make a pretty decent sea bass), with...

Feb 11th

Question: why has no one ever told me to watch Friday Night...

Feb 10th

Jody Ake makes new photographs that look like old...

Feb 8th

CHANDLER BURR, BLOGGING.

Feb 8th

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Sarah Harmer - Almost This is an on-air version so the quality isn’t amazing, but oh, how I...

Feb 8th

Hannah Whitaker

Feb 8th

Manya Fox, Underground Snack Bar, 2005. If you’ve...

Feb 8th

Oh hi, Brian Reyes. Would you like to make all my clothes...

Feb 7th

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Owen - The Ghost of What Should’ve Been This is a sad song, but I’m not sad. This is...

Feb 7th

Lisa Robinson, Solo. 2005 Part of a series called...

Feb 7th

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many...”
— Kurt Vonnegut (reblogged via...

Feb 7th

english...

me: let me let you know
elz: ok...i'll let you let me know
i just realized how much saying "let me let you ____" doesn't make sense. will someone really not let you let them go/know/get back to them on something?

Feb 7th

Raymond Pettibon, Untitled (Inside the Bookcase), 2007. ...

Feb 7th

Toothpaw draws in old Time-LIFE books and on found objects....

Feb 7th

"Euros accepted" signs pop up in New York...

Feb 7th

Putting Trend Spotters on the Spot

Feb 7th

Corey Arnold’s photographs of Alaskan fishing...

Feb 7th

Shutter Sisters

Feb 7th

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Already a classic.

Feb 6th

Wow. I can’t get over the “Guise” series...

Feb 6th

I had this weird desire today to go back and look at a ton...

Feb 6th

Animator vs Animation

Feb 6th

Juergen Teller, Kiev. 2007. New exhibition will open...

Feb 5th

Today is the Day

Feb 5th

Writers strike a mixed blessing for the...

Feb 5th

Impact of industrialism on the...

zachklein:     Now as the technology and information age sweeps over the world’s industrial...

Feb 5th

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The Acorn - Crooked Legs.  I like this song v. much.

Feb 5th

“Be moved by your excitement, not by your fear.”
— My friend Chris, who has...

Feb 5th

Amy Bennett, Losing It, 2006. Amy Bennett’s paintings...

Feb 5th

You can still join...

The Tumblr Book Club has launched, and we just started reading Beautiful Children, so there’s...

Feb 5th

i’m thinking of going to this opening on saturday if...

Feb 5th

I voted. For this hunk.

Feb 5th

yes we can.

Making myself go to bed so i can hit my polling place bright and early. What’s up, P.S.130...

Feb 5th

—confessions GO GO GO GO GO GO O. 

Feb 5th

Toni Frissell, 1947. Fashion shoot for Harper’s Bazaar...

Feb 4th

“Much biography of exceptional people is built around the...”
— from Mary Catherine Bateson,...

Feb 4th

John Ashbery, poet laureate and a favorite of mine, paints,...

Feb 4th

Thomas Holton, Twilight. Thomas is represented by Sasha...

Feb 4th

“If James Wood were a novel, a beginning like that would...”
— The Financial Times profiled...

Feb 4th

Carrie Moyer - The Stone Age, 2006. As seen in the...

Feb 4th

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zachklein: jeffbaum: The Greatest Play of All Time, Embedded. (via awful announcing) I don’t...

Feb 4th

THE BOOK CLUB LIVES!

Hi all, I got an overwhelming amount of interest in my Tumblr-based book club idea, so it’s...

Feb 3rd

Apes and Androids - Creepy Girls

Feb 3rd

crazy hair day.

Feb 3rd

Watching the US Skating Championships briefly while getting...

Feb 2nd

Wow.

chetgulland: “Lockdown: Raw” is full of rawness. Oh man. Last night we watched what...

Feb 2nd

Jason Bateman Confirms Arrested Development...

Feb 2nd

Tumblr Book Club

I would really like to start a low-pressure, Tumblr-based book club (with an invitation extended to...

Feb 1st

Peter Turner, Times Square.

Feb 1st

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Paul Simon - Graceland (Live at the Hollywood Bowl, ‘91) Holy SHIT, BAM. What kind of crazy...

Feb 1st

The Photographs Not Taken

[I can still glimpse in my mind those half a dozen workers in their brightly colored outfits,...

Feb 1st

The New Yorker’s Eustace Tilly contest may be one of...

Feb 1st