things Liz likes

suchisthis:

thingslizlikes:

Non-Wednesday GPOYW: cribz edition. Here you can see me, some old artwork, my modest Murakami collection, a photograph of myself (meta meta—actually, just meta), a poster for the Ig Nobels, an image of a man swallowing a sword, and my staple foods of choice.

Meta meta meta meta mushroom mushroom.

1. you’re beautiful, i think this is the first time i’ve seen a picture of you, and

2. i am absolutely in love with that blue painting behind you. if that is some of your ‘old artwork’, you need to never stop making art, and if that’s something you found, you need to keep it forever.

I feel kind of self-concious reblogging a photo of myself, but I just wanted to thank you for your kind (and super-flattering) words. Around the time that I painted that blue piece, I lost steam and decided to drop my art major. It’s been a year since I painted anything. It makes me really happy that you like the painting. Someday when I regain my motivation, I’ll make art again.

spaceships:

davidmanque:

In 1838 the 29-year old Charles Darwin wrote the following in his journal.  It is a chart comparing marriage (which he was considering) to non-marriage.

Transcription:

This is the question

Marry

Children — (if it Please God) — Constant companion, (& friend in old age) who will feel interested in one, — object to be beloved & played with. —  —better than a dog anyhow. — Home, & someone to take care of house — Charms of music & female chit-chat. — These things good for one’s health. — Forced to visit & receive relations but terrible loss of time. —
W My God, it is intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, & nothing after all. — No, no won’t do. — Imagine living all one’s day solitarily in smoky dirty London House. — Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps — Compare this vision with the dingy reality of Grt. Marlbro’ St.

Marry — Marry — Marry  Q.E.D.

Not Marry

No children, (no second life), no one to care for one in old age.— What is the use of working ‘in’ without sympathy from near & dear friends—who are near & dear friends to the old, except relatives

Freedom to go where one liked — choice of Society & little of it. — Conversation of clever men at clubs — Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle. — to have the expense & anxiety of children — perhaps quarelling — Loss of time. — cannot read in the Evenings — fatness & idleness — Anxiety & responsibility — less money for books &c — if many children forced to gain one’s bread. — (But then it is very bad for ones health to work too much)

Perhaps my wife wont like London; then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool —

Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood on January 29, 1839.

“Better than a dog anyhow.”  Nice.

Object to be beloved & played with. I briefly considered burning my bra, but in general the whole list is oddly sweet.

counterforce:

frost-at-midnight:

To Theo from The Hague. October 1882: “Imagine, this week to my great surprise I received a package from home — with a winter coat, warm trousers, and a warm lady’s coat. I was very touched. The churchyard with the wooden crosses is often on my mind, so I may do some studies for it in advance – I would like to do something like that in the snow – a peasant funeral or the like. In short, an effect like the enclosed scratch of miners.” - Vincent van Gogh

So much of van Gogh’s life story intrigues me—his failed attempts at preacherdom; his correpondence with Theo; the thematic arcs that developed in his work as the years passed. I’d like to see more of his pieces in person.