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All I can say is that if you love interesting textures, you should check out BittBox. Here’s a sample.
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Mostly male portraits, some nudes, some couples. Also a few family portraits. An amazing photographer: Paul Mpagi Sepuya.

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Illustration of mummers from Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal and Popular Antiquities, Charles Knight and Co., Ludgate Street, London, 1845

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BLDGBLOG presents an introductory essay and photos from Library of Dust
There’s a spectacular new book coming out at the end of this summer called Library of Dust, by photographer David Maisel, published by Chronicle Books. . . . In 1913, Maisel explained, an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed [...]

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Amazing Light Photography by Alan Jaras.

(A tip of the hat to The Daily Dish.)

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The Spring 2008 issue of Harvard Divinity Bulletin has a lovely essay by Marilynne Robinson, “Credo.”
History up to the present moment tells us again and again that a narrow understanding of faith very readily turns to bitterness and coerciveness. There is something about certainty that makes Christianity un-Christian. Instances of this are only too numerous [...]

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Someone kind should probably try to stop me, but this actress is amazing:

(Hat tip to Kottke.)

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Quiz: An artist or an ape?
Some of the images displayed below are masterpieces of abstract art, created by great artists. The rest were painted by an ape. Can you tell which is which?
Like Andrew Sullivan and Joe Irvin, I scored 83%.

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I’ve recently started following Old Girl of the North Country’s blog. Today she has a wonderful quote from Martha Graham (go there to read the whole passage):
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of [...]

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Burst of Energy #3. Ink on Paper, 36” by 36”, 9/2005. © Thomas Briggs (click for larger version)
Thomas Briggs Art Website (tip of the hat to Andrew Sullivan)

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