Brent Fitzpatrick

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[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Beauty is proof that human beings aren't here just to survive.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Maybe one of the most unforgettable surfing moments was captured by David Tereva.

[🏄‍♂️ terevadavid]

[History Dame @history_dame]

A quick video of the most beautiful mural I’ve seen, The Dream Garden by Maxfield Parrish (in collaboration with Louis Comfort Tiffany), inside the historic Curtis Building in Philadelphia.

This breathtaking glass mosaic, installed in 1916, features hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable tesserae in over 260 color tones, weighing over 4 tons and almost not surviving.

It’s a perfect escape for a moment as one goes through the busy streets of Philadelphia, but then again, anyone who knows Maxwell Parrish knows how ethereal he is.

[giraffe @neckincrisis]

mind your own fucking business

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

-- Bukowski

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”

-Rudyard Kipling

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Jingdezhen shows what happens when a civilization takes one craft seriously for centuries.

For more than 1,700 years, this city shaped porcelain so fine that it crossed courts, oceans, dining rooms, and trade routes.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, its kilns served imperial taste and exported huge amounts of porcelain to Europe.

A cup was never just a cup.

It carried China’s technical skill and visual taste across the world.

[Art or Other Things @ArtorOtherThing]

Art nouveau flower shop, Brussels

[Philosway @philosway]

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

— Robert Frost

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

The first known aerial photo of New York — taken by James A. Hart (from a hot air balloon) in 1906.

[Stephen Gibbons @Gibboanxious]

"Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine."

— John Waters

[VixenInTheCity @NikitaCatSpeaks]

Our generation didn't call in sick. We left the bar/club at closing time, slept for an hour, grabbed a coffee and a Marlboro Light, still smelling like a brewery, had the hand stamp to prove it, and went to work like nothing happened. We are not the same

[The Little Platoon @PlatoonPod]

There's a bit in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (written in 1979) where the heroes come upon an intergalactic flight has been grounded for thousands of years.

Its automated systems told it not to launch until it was fully stocked up with lemon-soaked paper napkins, for the comfort of its passengers. But the surrounding civilization collapsed, and the napkins never arrived.

Consequently it put all the passengers into hibernation (waking them once every few hundred years for coffee and biscuits) until such time as another civilization might arise, and restock its lemon-soaked paper napkins.

The Guide is a more accurate and prophetic account of modernity than most Very Serious Science Fiction writers could dream of creating.

[Things From the Past @pastarchive]

Flatiron Building under construction, Manhattan, New York, 1902.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

— Jack Kerouac, On the Road

[ULTRA🏝️BLAST @ultrakillblast]

Happy Mother's Day

[Distracted Film @distractedfilm]

“To create art means to be crazy alone forever.”

- Charles Bukowski

[The Art Curator @SeekAfterBeauty]

The Witching Hour (c. 1977) by Andrew Wyeth

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“The reason people awaken, is because they have finally stopped agreeing to things that insult their soul.”

- Terence McKenna

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Waterlilies (1904)
Claude Monet.