howtowhistle:

The charm of Sophia: The way she rolls her eyes, the way she shakes her shoulders…

From Too Bad She’s Bad, 1954.

drawnblog:

Fantastic vintage, scratchy, halftone-y, colorful, off-register, lush goodness from CSA in the form of CSA Flat File. Inspirationy!
(via Corey Loven)

drawnblog:

Fantastic vintage, scratchy, halftone-y, colorful, off-register, lush goodness from CSA in the form of CSA Flat File. Inspirationy!

(via Corey Loven)

zeroing:

Sandy Skoglund
If you cannot fly, drive; if you cannot drive, run; if you cannot run, walk; if you cannot walk, crawl. But keep moving. Keep moving forward.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Spelman College, 1960 (via liquidnight)

[always good advice…]

As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature’s cage. — Vladimir Nabokov, from “On a Book Entitled Lolita” (via liquidnight)