May 24, 2012   5 notes

Slip like Freudian, your first and last step to playing yourself like accordion.

May 24, 2012   481 notes
life: May 24, 1974: Duke Ellington dies at the age of 75. Here’s a great photo of Duke Ellington at a jazz jam session in LIFE photographer Gjon Mili’s studio — see more photos here. (Gjon Mili—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

life:

May 24, 1974: Duke Ellington dies at the age of 75.

Here’s a great photo of Duke Ellington at a jazz jam session in LIFE photographer Gjon Mili’s studio — see more photos here.

(Gjon Mili—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

May 24, 2012
Lucy Rose (Taken with instagram)

Lucy Rose (Taken with instagram)

May 8, 2012

“ Love and Genius are two of the most over-used words in the language. ”

Henry Chinaski - Hollywood

April 19, 2012
Taken with instagram

Taken with instagram

April 19, 2012   1 note
Oxford Road (Taken with instagram)

Oxford Road (Taken with instagram)

March 27, 2012

Trevor Brown

Trevor Brown has been a favourite artist of mine for a few years; I rediscovered some of his work I had saved when looking through pictures from my old hard-drive. 

"Medical Fun"

Originally from Britain, Trevor Brown now resides in Japan; incorporating elements of Japanese popular culture with themes such as violence, medical fetish and paedophilia.

Bloodsucker

His unique painting of girls and dolls or ‘baby art’ are beautifully gruesome. His work has been featured as cover art for various recording artists, including a personal favourite of mine Venetian Snares.

Further details of his work, book collections and exhibits can be found here.

March 15, 2012

She’s just my type.

March 13, 2012   120 notes
youmightfindyourself: GOOD: We stuff our credit card bills deeper into the drawer. We lose our jobs and call it “going freelance.” We lie to our parents and tell them we still have health insurance. We see protesters mingle with people who have been without a home or a job for a long time—a really long time—and we wonder if they’re on the same spectrum. We don’t ask that question out loud. We respect that everyone has a side hustle. A side hustle to the side hustle. Survival, we come to realize, is its own form of activism. We buy less crap. We make dinner at home. We hold out hope that our projects will become paychecks. We share. We rely on each other. We get through it together. 

youmightfindyourself:

GOOD: We stuff our credit card bills deeper into the drawer. We lose our jobs and call it “going freelance.” We lie to our parents and tell them we still have health insurance. We see protesters mingle with people who have been without a home or a job for a long time—a really long time—and we wonder if they’re on the same spectrum. We don’t ask that question out loud.

We respect that everyone has a side hustle. A side hustle to the side hustle. Survival, we come to realize, is its own form of activism. We buy less crap. We make dinner at home. We hold out hope that our projects will become paychecks. We share.

We rely on each other. We get through it together. 

March 5, 2012

A documentary to accompany my post below.

March 5, 2012   16 notes
February 29, 2012

Hi, his name is what?

February 29, 2012   1 note

Lemon Drizzle Cake

I love to bake cakes. I also love to eat cake, so I try to limit my baking to special occasions. I made this lemon drizzle cake for my friend’s birthday last week and it was, if I do say so myself, really good. I must admit that I’ve cheated with the photo as I forgot to take one before it got eaten.

Original recipe taken from The Telegraph.

Ingredients:

125g/40z soft margarine/butter 
175g/60z caster sugar 
175g/6oz self raising flour 
1 tsp baking powder 
2 large free-range eggs 
1 large or 2 small lemons- grated rind of 
65ml/ 2.5 floz milk

For lemon syrup:

3 tbsp granulated sugar 
Juice of lemons used for rind

Method:

Grease and line a 1kg/2lb loaf tin
Preheat Oven 180 degrees C (I found my cake was slightly over done on the outside, so you may want to try a little cooler the first time round)
Place all cake ingredients into a food processor and blend until really smooth and quite runny
Pour cake mixture into the prepared loaf tin and bake in the preheated oven for 45-50 minutes
Meanwhile, make the lemon syrup.

Dissolve the granulated sugar in the lemon juice.
When the cooking time is up, test that the cake is done by pushing a metal skewer into the centre, it comes out clean it’s done!
While the cake is still in the tin place it onto a cooling rack
Price the cake all over with the skewer and spoon the lemon syrup all over the cake until you have used all the syrup- it will go everywhere but do not worry it will set when it is cold.
Leave the cake in the tin until it is quite cold.

February 29, 2012

Strike a pose.

February 24, 2012

Time to go vegan?

If everyone in the UK went vegetarian or vegan it would have the same environmental benefit as talking half of all cars off the road, according to new research.

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