Love the composition of this photo, not to mention all things Fornasetti.
Nwk approves.
travelhighlights:
Neve… by Beppe610
Venice, Italy
My most enduring memory of Venice is walking along a boardwalk on a foggy day. The light was as you see above and I could barely make out the water, the buildings and the path ahead — they appeared as if in a dream, without outlines.
This of course enhanced the feeling I’d often had that Venice is not of this earth, but rather floats in the clouds.
North Brother Island, New York (photograph via)
North Brother Island is an abandoned island in the East River situated between the Bronx and Riker’s Island. The island was uninhabited until 1885, when the Riverside Hospital was built.
Riverside Hospital was founded to treat and isolate victims of smallpox. Its mission eventually expanded to other quarantinable diseases. Typhoid Mary - the first person in the United States to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever - was confined to the island for over two decades until she died there in 1938. The hospital closed shortly thereafter.
After World War II, the island housed war veterans who were students at local colleges, along with their families. After the nationwide housing shortage abated, the island was once again abandoned.
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The island is currently abandoned and off-limits to the public. Most of the original hospitals buildings still stand, but are heavily deteriorated and in danger of collapse. A dense forest conceals the ruined hospital buildings and supports one of the area’s largest nesting colonies of Black-crowned Night Heron.
Suggested by Mat Coes
And since “mad” people were recategorised and turned out onto the streets, the property that was not immediately redeveloped just gave itself up to nature. I would want to live there, in that room, just as it is!
It closely matches an image I have had in my mind since childhood, in fact, or a roughly round or octagonal house with a kitchen as the central hub and one large surrounding room, itself surrounded by trees.
The closest I ever saw to such a house in reality was this one designed by Frank Lloyd Wright: It was built in Pleasantville NY, and is in private hands; I have never seen the plan made available.
Mine is completely surrounded with trees.
surreal LL of the night:a_k: Philippe Halsman
Some fashion tips sent to me by Luci. Always needed & appreciated.
Boots and purple dress are me, and yet there’s something different, something extra here. I will consult with Cloggo, my stylist when I allow him to be.
My stylist who still doesn’t quite get sexual ambiguity.
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It’s amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
Doris Lessing (via jscottgrand)
“[Cronkite was] the most trusted man in America. But here’s the thing, that title wasn’t bestowed on him by a network.
It was earned by year after year and decade after decade of painstaking effort; a commitment to fundamental values; his belief that the American people were hungry for the truth, unvarnished and unaccompanied by theater or spectacle. [Cronkite’s standard was] a little bit harder to find today [with] instant commentary and celebrity gossip and the softer stories that Walter disdained…
We weren’t told to believe it by some advertising campaign. It was earned.
’What happened today?’ is replaced with ‘Who won today?’ The public debate cheapens.”
Barack Obama (via mattpayton)
Ricky Ball is the most beautiful in looks, with long brown hair and a fantastic face.




