visual diary

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i am in need of cheering up and so went googling for nice things to look at (i should really figure out tumblr. or have joined ffffound prior to its memebers-only status). anyway,i came across the above via searching for a specific rothko. how much would you like to retreat there for a while?

from the beautiful blog i nicked it from:

1. Mark Rothko’s Chapel at the Menil Foundation in Houston sets itself as “a sacred space open to all, dedicated to art, spirituality and human rights” without pandering to specified religions, political agendas, grand narratives or personalised manifestos contained within the binaries of good and bad. Here, abstract art possesses a significance removed from things and ideas, and the monotone purple swathes appear calming, understanding, all consuming and beautiful.

i must have a proper peruse of ALMF later.

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the world's largest photobooth (whatever that means) is ongoing as part of the nottingham contemporary's exhibit of arbus' work (the photobooth apparently takes photos 'in her style'). i can't say i am a big fan of arbus, but if you are willing to trawl through the photos you will find some gems.

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via wooster
french graffiti artist princess hijab: a tiny little more on her here.

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and now let's dip into my nice picture reserve -- in "c:\users\sarf\documents\my received files" i keep random photos that i like. the first few i found via various websites (which i shall list underneath) but some of them (the ones without extra annotations) i actually came to via facebook - mostly friends of friends. should any of those souls in these photos ever find themselves here, i have kept these photos because i think they are charming. please don't be afraid! and should you want your face removed from here my email is somewhere on your right.

hm. i can't find the original link for this anymore (and therefore can't give appropriate credit), but i found this poster on the guardian website: it was a set of posters with advice for new university students.


beautiful beautiful tattoo i came across via fuckyeahtattoos. on the arm of a lady who makes pretty things from broken plates! the tatt is taken from some pretty plate decorations.


the wonderfully talented rebecca artisma, whose artwork is still my desktop wallpaper (the real thing). i gave sai a locket made by her (you can see a little more on a now defunct livejournal which is where i first came across her, i think) because i wanted to buy something and couldn't justify buying something for myself.


photo by matt of marilyn and presumably his friend.









well, now i feel a little better. i hope you do too.