High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who notoriously walked between the World Trade Center twin towers in 1974 and whose Cheating the Impossible is a must-read, explores the art of making knots in Why Knot? How to Tie More Than Sixty Ingenious, Useful, Beautiful, Lifesaving and Secure Knots.
Sheer 100-foot cliffs of eroded ash rise before Mount Katolinat in Alaska.
Photograph by Winfield Parks, National Geographic
A Geisha girl poses in her Kimono in Kyoto, June 1927.
Photograph by Franklin Price Knott, National Geographic
Designer Federico Mauro distills the likeness of cultural icons down to their eyewear. Pair with these minimalist infographic summaries of famous lives.
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So lovely: For her daughter Emma’s fifth birthday, Canadian photographer Jaiime C. Moore styles her in the likeness of powerful female role models – Amelia Earhart, Jane Goodall, Coco Chanel, Susan B. Anthony, and Helen Keller.
more art by Elpeth McLean…beautiful….☮❤☮❤
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Do not amend by reasoning, but by example; approach feeling by feeling; do not hope to excite love except by love.
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel on love and its demons (via explore-blog)
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