Middle Savagery (lite)

Nice photo from Lee.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:20:42 -0800

Nice photo from Lee.

From Mudd Up! For centuries, Persian potters had been using...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:11:33 -0800

For centuries, Persian potters had been using cobalt to paint underglaze blue decorations. In the early fourteenth century, some bright entrepeneur had the idea of taking it to China. The Chinese potters tried out this ‘Muhammadan blue’ on their highly prized white porcelain, and in about 1325 started to export the barbarous results back to the Near East. The shapes were based on those of Islamic metalwork, the blue decorations incorporated jolly chinoiseries. Soon, imitations were being made in Persia, then in Egypt and Syria. Later on, the Ottomans took blue-and-white to heart and put tulips on their pots; the seventeenth-century Dutch then fell in love with it, putting windmills and armorials on their pots, and tulips in them. The bastard transfer-printed descendants of blue-and-white still leave Stoke-on-Trent in their willow-patterned millions.

-Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Travels with a Tangerine

blackandwtf: Thanks, Billy. (via)

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:08:14 -0800

blackandwtf:

Thanks, Billy. (via)

jessek: Dirt Poster « Whitezine | inspire Create and...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:42:07 -0800

jessek:

Dirt Poster « Whitezine | inspire Create and Share

somethingturkish: via fuckyeahtypography: via...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:38:07 -0800

somethingturkish:

via fuckyeahtypography: via davidkaneda:

Public Gothic is a new gothic font by Antrepo with 4 fantastic variations, and it’s free.

hey, it’s free downloadable THY font!

"I’m glad I don’t live in Ancient Rome because I hate the thought of everyone I deal with wearing..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:24:38 -0800

“I’m glad I don’t live in Ancient Rome because I hate the thought of everyone I deal with wearing sandals all the time.”

- Paul Feig (via putthison)

jessek: How Maps are (were) made « Awful Library Books

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:24:17 -0800

jessek:

How Maps are (were) made « Awful Library Books

Kalabougou potter.

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:19:07 -0800

Kalabougou potter.

Souvenir pots next to the Niger river.

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:17:00 -0800

Souvenir pots next to the Niger river.

How to open a bottle of wine with a shoe.

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:53:00 -0800

How to open a bottle of wine with a shoe.

Oya - Turkish Needlelace, sometimes used as trim on headscarves.

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:21:00 -0800

Oya - Turkish Needlelace, sometimes used as trim on headscarves.

Oyá, Yoruba goddess of the Niger River and tornadoes, lightning,...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:11:00 -0800

Oyá, Yoruba goddess of the Niger River and tornadoes, lightning, earthquakes, and chaos. Represented in Santeria as the Virgen de Candelaria.

"you who never arrived in my arms, beloved, who were lost from the start i don’t even know what songs..."

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:54:19 -0800

“you who never arrived in my arms, beloved, who were lost from the start i don’t even know what songs would please you. i have given up trying to recognise you in the surging wave of the next moment. all the immense images in me–the far-off, deeply-felt landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and un-suspected turns in the path, you, beloved, who are all the gardens i have ever gazed at, longing. an open window in a country house, and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. streets that i chanced upon, you had just walked down them and vanished. and sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. who knows perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening”

-
rainer maria rilke

(via scribble-scribbles)

Photo

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:30:00 -0800

Texas International Airlines.

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:32:41 -0800

Texas International Airlines.

Cowrie shell tattoo.

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:54:00 -0800

Cowrie shell tattoo.

Bedouin tea in Wadi Rum.

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:51:31 -0800

Bedouin tea in Wadi Rum.

"If asked what you think [about the wine], say breezily, ‘Jolly good,’ as though you..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:51:00 -0800

“If asked what you think [about the wine], say breezily, ‘Jolly good,’ as though you always say that whatever it’s like. This may suggest that your mind’s on higher things than wine, like gin or sex.”

- Kingsley Amis

Raashan Ahmad - OAKLAND

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:28:41 -0800

Raashan Ahmad - OAKLAND

Clarks and Red Wings at Endless.com

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:01:05 -0800

putthison:

Search for “Endless Shoes” on bing.com and click on the Endless Shoes ad for 20% cash back.

Clarks and Red Wings are on sale for 30% off with free overnight shipping and free return shipping. Sale is today (Sunday) only. Clarks Desert Boots are $59.47, plus $11.89 cash back. Red Wing Gentleman Travelers are $162.33 plus $32.47 cash back.

Hey, Clarks desert boots are on sale…perfect gear for archaeologists working on nice mudbrick tells or desert sites. Not recommended for beastly rocky sites.