Picasso's Sausage Dog

"The sausage dog ate at the dinner table, from a plate embellished with his own portrait by Picasso’s hand, slept on Picasso’s bed and made use of a 7ft-high bronze sculpture by the artist for his own private latrine"

From anothermag
Images....
1. Picasso and Lump. Photography by David Douglas Duncan
2.  Picasso's sketch of Lump © Pablo Picasso
3.  Picasso and Lump. Photography by David Douglas Duncan
4.  Las Meninas (Group), 1957, featuring Lump. Oil on canvas, approx. 6'4" by 8'6". © Pablo Picasso, courtesy of Museo Picasso, Barcelona

found here

Berlin

Polaroids by ME.

fabulous! found here

Time Wasting Experiment

Genius!
simple letterpress project, by Portland based artist Alyson Provax, titled Time Wasting Experiment.
I've just picked out a few and I do not even want to imagine how many minutes I’ve used up doing all of the above. So, on that note, I have a little message to send out:
Hey, Worrying… you SUCK. I’m moving on, and getting my minutes back! There. We’ll see how that goes.

Sunday Tune (Double!!)

I have fallen in Love with this Ladies album TRUE
It took a few listens, a grower like all the best ones!

Sunday Tune

Pio Abad,
A photograph of the 13th World Festival for Youth and Students taken by my father, 1989 (2013)

Patterns

If we take yoga seriously we will practice it alot. It makes sense, then, that what we practice has a positive effect on the body.

We repeat patterns not to limit us in life, but as the musician practices their scales, we practice basic patterns so we can move freely in life. Working with fundamental patterns in yoga helps to clarify how we move and what habits we have built up.

We need to learn to distribute patterns evenly throughout our bodies. Poorly distributed forces create stresses and strains at joins, which invariably lead to pain of discomfort and increased likelihood of layering protective patterns over causative ones. When we take this approach, yoga becomes an inquiry into the way we engage through our bodies. It helps us to notice when we do unhelpful things, and, once noticed, we can gently set about letting them go.

Absolutely Fabulous workouts!

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Vivianne Sassen - Roxane

Vivianne Sassan has a new book - Roxane - published by Oodee.
I love this Ladies work!
See more on her website here.

From otherwordly

From otherwordly
i like this one too.

The Chinese Checker Players

When I was six years old
I played Chinese checkers
   with a woman
who was ninety-three years old.
She lived by herself
in an apartment down the hall
   from ours.
We played Chinese checkers
every Monday and Thursday nights.
While we played she usually talked
about her husband
who had been dead for seventy years
and we drank tea and ate cookies
   and cheated.

-- Richard Brautigan

The Return of The Rivers

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.      It is raining today in the mountains.      It is a warm green rain with love in its pockets for spring is here, and does not dream of death.      Birds happen music like clocks ticking heaves in a land where children love spiders, and let them sleep in their hair.      A slow rain sizzles on the river like a pan full of frying flowers, and with each drop of rain the ocean begins again. -- Richard Brautigan

Image from here and found via rebeccaketchum.
i love what Rebecca wrote...

Ed ‘41.  Let’s say he’s about 90-ish now. I think he lives just outside Milwaukee with a bunch of dogs. He likes turtles and pigs, too. Favorite food: super salty sauerkraut and dried figs. Drives an imported yellow fiat. Likes to spend his time emailing and playing basketball.

YES!

(from here)

Good use of bear! (from here and here)

Yuki Kitazumi

Spotted the work of Yuki Kitazumi on The Jealous Curator...
"A leisurely breakfast, a trip to the circus, and then a little research on how to make my garden grow! Ah yes, that’s what my weekend would be like if I lived in the illustrations of Tokyo based artist Yuki Kitazumi."

the daily habits of joan didion

“I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I’ve done that day. I can’t do it late in the afternoon because I’m too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages. So I spend this hour taking things out and putting other things in. Then I start the next day by redoing all of what I did the day before, following these evening notes. When I’m really working I don’t like to go out or have anybody to dinner, because then I lose the hour. If I don’t have the hour, and start the next day with just some bad pages and nowhere to go, I’m in low spirits. Another thing I need to do, when I’m near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it. That’s one reason I go home to Sacramento to finish things. Somehow the book doesn’t leave you when you’re asleep right next to it. In Sacramento nobody cares if I appear or not. I can just get up and start typing.”

- Joan Didion via here and here

Beth Hoeckel

Beth Hoeckel (again!!) because she fills my head with wonderful things.

“Every beginner should be afforded this freedom of creativity. Courage is a key factor in every form of artistic creative process, it can best unfold when it is not curtailed too early by knowledge.”

-- Anni Albers.

Joseph & Anni Albers Foundation

Cy Twombly Photographs

Read to following: Tulips, photographs, photographs, prints and works.

www.cytwombly.info

Cy Twombly

Images from apieceapart

sthira sukham asanam
Steady/focused/strong while maintaining comfort & ease.

Strong Ladies!

(images from here, here and here)

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

(image found here)