Laura in Toronto

prettybooks:

I must have imagined all the books I’ve been reading on my Kindle then…

“book·lov·er [book-luhv-er]: a person who enjoys reading books”
Print books, ebooks, audiobooks, library books, old books, new books, secondhand books, flipback books, and so on. The format does not, and should not, matter.

(Source: little-blackbook)

story of an education

prettybooks:

(by Kate Banazi)

thiscitycalledearth:

by Martin Bartholmy, Richmond.

Sometimes I tell myself I want a kitty, so I can name her Mrs. Dalloway.

prettybooks:

(by felix.castor)

biocanvas:

Cultured glandular structures from patients with fibroadenomas (benign cell masses from the breast) and prostatic hyperplasia (noncancerous nodules of the prostate).

Image by Dr. Ma. Ivy Clemente.

The Museum of Modern Art announces the release of MoMA Books, a free Application for the Apple iPad that allows users to purchase, download, and read a growing number of MoMA’s e-books, including favorite backlist titles that are no longer available in print, such as Atget by John Szarkowski. The MoMA Books App provides greater and more convenient access to exhibition catalogues that offer a lasting record of the Museum’s diverse exhibition program, scholarly texts on key works and artists in collection, and anthologies of important art-historical texts from around the world. …

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mounts:

” I like to think that I am working within a certain set of rules that is similar to artists that use the constructed image, yet what distinguishes my work from this genre of contemporary photography is the perversion of scale that I use as a device to bring the ironies in my work to the forefront of the viewer’s attention. Indeed there is an element of entertainment to this scale gimmick that I feel is crucial in capturing the attention of the viewer so that they can then speculate the underlying facets to the work. These being the geo-social and political connotations that manifest themselves as explorations of class/ taste and identity. ” – Petros Chrisostomou

Mine too.

500daysofkissingmypillow:

My kids, someday.

architectureandarts:

Selexyz Bookstore in Maastricht designed by Merkx and Girod Architects, built in a Dominican Church restored by Satijnplus Architecten.