Stunning

Advertising postcard for the Mele department store, 1920. Artist probably Aleardo Villa. Italy. From the exhibition The Postcard Age, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2013.

‘Improbable Libraries’ Beautifully Depicts The Fun Side Of Libraries

There’s just something about a library – its well-thumbed, plastic-sheathed bestsellers and dusty shelves of obscure treasures, all just waiting to be picked up and enjoyed by you. And then someone else, someone you may never meet. A library brings readers together into one space to share, exchange, and unlock the secrets of books. Oh, and it’s absolutely free to use.

Alex Johnson, a journalist for the U.K.’s Independent and the author ofImprobable Libraries, agrees. But he’s also noticed that libraries don’t just operate out of drab brick municipal buildings or aged edifices with Gothic arches.

See more of these improbable libraries here. 

En el libro de la vida caben todas las palabras (ilustraciones de Vladimir Gvozdarik)

The Joy of a Hell of a Life

The joy of life (1906), Henri Matisse / Hell of a Life, Kanye West

Francisco Muñoz "Monstruo de la tierra" 2011, Tlaxcala, México.

Gato lector y muy sibarita (ilustración de Momo Zhang)

In progress @eastrivertattoo, Brooklyn.

Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley in Viva Las Vegas, 1964

Hermosa

Día de Muertos

Después de tanto tiempo subo una ilustración <3 

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Ken Kesey is responsible for some of the most outsized heroes of contemporary literature — not in the literal sense, as with Chief Bromden, but in a sense of character, of will, of unrelenting doggedness. Randle Patrick McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Hank Stamper from S...