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jess-agi:

theatlantic:

“Since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than a half million cards, letters, and drawings have been sent to the people of Newtown, Connecticut, from around the world. These messages of love, sadness, and hope have been on display in the town hall and viewed there by many residents and visitors. We believe that they deserve a wider audience. We will be posting new cards and letters every day to this Tumblr blog.”

So touching.

Sweet

laughingsquid:

What To Do When You See A Bear

Come on bear

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heatherchristle:

Fanny Howe, from Eggs

Nice

thenearsightedmonkey:

Coloring pages tacked to wall before the first “Unthinkable Mind” class taught by Lynda Barry at The University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Students were asked to pick an image to color while listening to an interview with Iain McGilchrist about his book “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”.

Great idea

thenearsightedmonkey:

Dear Unthinkable Mind Students,

Here’s the handout for our class on January 28th, 2012. We’ll be looking at the coloring pages you worked on since we last met and we’ll be writing together. —Apologies for the spelling errors, like ‘relys’ intstead of ‘relies’and actually the ‘homework’ is due WEDNESDAY not Tuesday. This will be corrected on the 3D versions of these pages that I will give you in class.

“Some sense of the action lies in the queer kind of sympathy that the artist is able to call up for the thing he is [coloring]. The true amount of mental sympathy that the student can give to a subject he wants to [color] creates a sense of life in the picture. From this sense of life, the picture begins to have value all its own…” —Jan Gordon, “A Step-Ladder to Painting”

Now that you’ve spent some real time coloring four different pictures, does this quote from Jan Gordon seem true to you? What does Gordon mean by ‘sympathy’?

See you soon,

Professor Lynda

:)

sofapizza:

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a moment too late

Ha.

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