there are so many ways to be yourself in the world

A photo posted by •Giulianna Maria• (@giuliannaa) on Aug 16, 2016 at 2:07pm PDT

another fine essay by molly young: “letter of recommendation: instagram explore,” about the weird, wonderful rabbit hole of instagram:

The fire hose introduced me, for example, to Giulianna Maria Bosco (@giuliannaa), who is a 19-year-old college sophomore with a hobby of applying trompe l’oeil makeup that appears to slice her face in half on a diagonal axis and flip one half upside down. What figment of the algorithm brought Bosco to my Explore page? I dunno. But there she was one night, with a jagged line running across her face, splitting it in two, an eyebrow drawn on her left cheek, and an inverted nose and mouth rendered in eyeliner on her forehead. Two faces were laid atop one, and both were looking back at me, saying something like: “There are so many ways to be yourself in the world. Here is one of them.”

my new personal letter of recommendation: fake uggs

not to sound cosmic, but

surprising things about 2017

• ryan adams interest returning
• if i were a doctor and my patients lived in a cold climate and had bad circulation, i’d write prescriptions for (fake) uggs, all day long

these colors

USA. San Antonio, Texas. 2011. Jama from Somalia, Oak Manor Apartments. Photo by Alec Soth.

(via kaitlyn lucas, via manufactoriel)

tonight’s sky

scenes from an ideal marriage

Cy Twombly, Scenes from an Ideal Marriage, 1986

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karel martens

karel martens

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Nathalie Du Pasquier

Nathalie Du Pasquier

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