The Beatles Typographic Prints (vía douxe)
The Beatles Typographic Prints (vía douxe)
The kiss of death.This astonishing sculpture forms part of Barcelona’s Poblenou Cemetery. The Kiss of Death (El Petó de la Mort in Catalan and El beso de la muerte in Spanish) dates back to 1930. A winged skeleton bestows a kiss on the lips of a handsome young man: is it ecstasy on his face or resignation? Little wonder the sculpture elicits strong and varying responses from whoever gazes upon it.
Impresionante escultura: The kiss of death.
(vía philphys)
It is a question of fact, whether the perceptions of the senses be produced by external objects, resembling them: how shall this question be determined? By experience surely; as all other questions of a like nature. But here experience is, and must be entirely silent. The mind has never anything present to it but the perceptions, and cannot possibly reach any experience of their connexion with objects. The supposition of such a connexion is, therefore, without any foundation in reasoning.
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (via philphys)
Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value. Though I listen to all the arguments which the most divergent systems employ to demystify, to limit, to erase, in short to depreciate love, I persist: “I know, I know, but all the same…” I refer the devaluations of a lover to a kind of obscurantist ethic, to a let’s-pretend realism, against which I erect the realism of value: I counter whatever “doesn’t work” in love with the affirmation of what is worthwhile.
Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse (via philphys)
9gag: The Roomate Agreement
Self Portrait. New York City. (vía smooth)
The Great Wave off Kanagawa Decal
This wall decal of The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Japanese artist Hokusai measures over eleven feet wide. Sold on Etsy.
La habitación de mi futuro.