Bread and Roses

A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing: "Bread and roses! Bread and roses!"

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,

For they are women's children, and we mother them again.

Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;

Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead

Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.

Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.

Yes, it is bread we fight for - but we fight for roses, too!

As we come marching, marching, we bring the greater days.


The rising of the women means the rising of the race.

No more the drudge and idler - ten that toil where one reposes,

But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses! Bread and roses!

-- James Oppenheim Joan Baez and Mimi Farina sing Bread and Roses.

Tom Hull

 From Sprung by Tom Hull

 The Baez Sisters, 1968.

Imagine

Imagine a world where your friend says
“I can’t eat that, I’ll get fat”

and you’re natural response was not

“no, you won’t”

But

“so what?”…………………………

Read this.

I think we should make it come true.
(from Natasha Devon at realbeautydebate)

Monday!

I'm ready this week...
Found here

Sunday Tune

The Tallest Man On Earth - Love Is All (Official Video) from johan stolpe on Vimeo.

sunday tune

The Naked And Famous - The Sun from The Naked And Famous on Vimeo.

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I have all of these skills. I am proud of that fact.
Whilst we are on the subject of ice cream if you are ever in London then treat yourself to the  mascarpone & Fig ice cream (with chocolate if you really know how to live) from gelateria3bis on Park Street, Borough Market. One of the best things I have ever put in my mouth....

(badges via blua)

Àngels Ribé
Six Possibilities of Occupying a Given Space, 1975

(Source: nicoonmars, via sundryedtomatoes)

Negtive Space

1. TooGood
2. Cy Twombly's map of the U.S.
3. Richard Serra
4. Alain Resnais
5. John Baldessari
6. Stars
7. Jil Sander archive
 8. Ellsworth Kelly

Friday!

Yep.
From Gazpacho Blog

Friday!!

Recommended Read: Beauty Redifined

Something to  read... physically-photoshopping-ourselves-out-of-reality

"Here’s an outrageous idea: What would happen if confident, happy, beautiful women decided to forego painful and expensive anti-aging procedures, breast lifts and enhancements, liposuction, all over hair removal or tanning regimens? How could that change the way their daughters, students, friends, nieces and coworkers perceived themselves and their own “flawed,” lined, real faces? Their own varied-looking and perfectly functional breasts, behinds, thighs, arms and abs? How could simply owning and (treating kindly and speaking nicely about) our so-called “imperfect” bodies affect not only our own lives, but those over whom we have influence? Is it possible to slowly but deliberately change the perception of these “flaws” as something to shame, hide and fix at any cost to something acceptable and embraceable in all their human, womanly real-ness? We say yes."

Bubble portrait (Clouds), 2004
Julianne Schwartz
(Source: mpdrolet)

Birgir Snæbjörn Birgisson

The subject matter is the human effort to hide the fear, blood and guts behind the elevated image of purity, the constant search for the ideal, our need to reach the perfect, on the inside as well as on the outside.
  -- Arnar Matthiasson on Birgir Snæbjörn Birgisson

Found here

Thor and Wistle

Bone bracelets, rings and necklaces by Thor and Wistle

Swimming trees found here

Bailey Doesn't Bark

Beautiful pottery from Bailey Doesn't Bark

Images found here and here

"Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look."

 --Marina Abramović

Play

photos by Chris Steele-Perkins 1978 Wolverhampton (My home town!!)

 (Found here)

“The laws of gravity can be figured out much more easily with intuition than anything else.”

— Gabriel García Márquez 

Libra
This is a week for very little things. It’s a week for sweet bright mornings, for sweaters and blankets on cool nights, for quiet moments on park benches, for driving out to the lake just to sit there and watch the water and feel the sun. This week will be filled with small sweet satisfactions that can build on each other, moment by moment, until they’re enough to get you through this week. Let them make you stronger, let them stay in the back of your head, to hold onto for later, let them be enough for now.

-- Madame-Clairevoyant

Carlotta Manaigo

Venice

Stories

"I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I'm still frightened... Nothing changes." "I've always had a deep respect for children and how they solve complex problems by themselves...through shrewdness, fantasy and just plain strength. They want to survive. THEY WANT TO SURVIVE."

 - Maurice Sendak

Interview by Andrew Romano and Ramin Seetodeh from BlankOnBlank.org
2009. Sendak's home in Connecticut
Read the Newsweek article
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek...

I love the internets and i love eavesdropping....

Found here

"Awareness: Every pore of the skin has to become an eye."

-- B.K.S. Iyengar