One of the great American arts, which varies from being a triumph to being a disaster, is the art of sandwichmaking. First, the all-important foundation. You must have good, firm bread and sweet butter. Next, the filling. This should be fresh, tasty, pleasing to the palate and above all, of an elegant but not excessive sufficiency, for an overstuffed sandwich is vulgar, messy, and difficult to eat. It doesn’t matter if the filling is nothing more than peanut butter and jelly.

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-James Beard, in Beard on Food, 1974

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Vingtage travel  natgeofound: Travelers look at a glass dome on a stainless-steel train car, April 1947Photograph by Willard Culver, National Geographic

Vingtage travel 

natgeofound:

Travelers look at a glass dome on a stainless-steel train car, April 1947Photograph by Willard Culver, National Geographic

Fantastic short film project from French student Corentin Charron that plays up the joys of a classic French meal, even in space. 

Currently on repeat

Very excited about this.  explore-blog: Introducing The Reconstructionists – a yearlong illustrated celebration of trailblazing women across art, science and literature, who have changed the way we define ourselves as a culture and live our lives as individuals of any gender.

Very excited about this. 

explore-blog:

Introducing The Reconstructionists – a yearlong illustrated celebration of trailblazing women across art, science and literature, who have changed the way we define ourselves as a culture and live our lives as individuals of any gender.

Organic and local bounty married with Anthropologie’s bohemian vibe. My favorite lunch spot in the Philadelphia region. 

Time-tested French confections + a killer space make Colorova the left bank’s best new salon de thé. My latest for the NYT T Magazine. Click HERE to read! 

Time-tested French confections + a killer space make Colorova the left bank’s best new salon de thé. My latest for the NYT T Magazine. Click HERE to read! 

A sensorial experience

Easily swayed by slick photography and video; suddenly very keen to visit Kuala Lumpur! #travel

New week, let’s do this! #MusicMonday

Such a good gig. Hope Photojojo gets lucky with a new recruit!  photojojo: Win a $50 Gift Card to the Photojojo Store! We’re hiring Tutorial Writers and a Copywriter to join our fun team of photography-lovers! We just know there are peeps out there in the Tumblr-sphere (maybe even you?) who’d be rad Photojojo writers. Help us find’ em! Reblog this post *TODAY* to help us spread the word about our writer openings, and we’ll pick a winner on 6/28! 

Such a good gig. Hope Photojojo gets lucky with a new recruit! 

photojojo:

Win a $50 Gift Card to the Photojojo Store!

We’re hiring Tutorial Writers and a Copywriter to join our fun team of photography-lovers! We just know there are peeps out there in the Tumblr-sphere (maybe even you?) who’d be rad Photojojo writers. Help us find’ em!

Reblog this post *TODAY* to help us spread the word about our writer openings, and we’ll pick a winner on 6/28! 

One of my favorite shots from my trip to the States. Location: unimportant. 

One of my favorite shots from my trip to the States. Location: unimportant. 

Following its resounding success in New York, Melbourne, Toronto, and Los Angeles, “Tim Burton” -  the itinerant exhibition tracing the eccentric filmmaker’s enchantingly macabre universe from past to present– has made its final stop in Paris at the illustrious Cinémathèque Française. There’s no mistaking the very personal, childhood demons in Tim Burton’s work – his dynamic stories and atmospheric films reflect a playful darkness that are unique to his somewhat marginalized upbringing in Burbank, California. Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, and Sweeney Todd are all universally recognizable characters from Burton’s brooding imagination but few have been exposed to his other work, composed largely of pop art and zealous sketches from his days as a student at the California Institute of Art. Widely regarded as “the seventh art”, film has always held a hallowed role in French culture and Burton’s subversive style and gothic leanings have long been lauded by French moviegoers and critics. Through August 5, 2012, visitors have access to over 700 drawings, photographs, costumes, figurines and film artifacts, many on display for the first time, in addition to a comprehensive film retrospective including limited-distribution shorts and extracts from his forthcoming projects. After discovering the exhibit organized by New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2009, Serge Toubiana, director of the museum which hosts one of the world’s most extensive film archives, was intent on bringing it to Europe. He explained, “I had the pleasure of convincing our friends at the MoMA to accept continuing the exhibition’s itinerary all the way to Paris. The decisive element was the enthusiastic agreement of Tim Burton”. Cinemathèque Française 51 rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris (Closed Tuesdays) Written by: Lindsey Tramuta

Following its resounding success in New York, Melbourne, Toronto, and Los Angeles, “Tim Burton” -  the itinerant exhibition tracing the eccentric filmmaker’s enchantingly macabre universe from past to present– has made its final stop in Paris at the illustrious Cinémathèque Française.

There’s no mistaking the very personal, childhood demons in Tim Burton’s work – his dynamic stories and atmospheric films reflect a playful darkness that are unique to his somewhat marginalized upbringing in Burbank, California. Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, and Sweeney Todd are all universally recognizable characters from Burton’s brooding imagination but few have been exposed to his other work, composed largely of pop art and zealous sketches from his days as a student at the California Institute of Art.

Widely regarded as “the seventh art”, film has always held a hallowed role in French culture and Burton’s subversive style and gothic leanings have long been lauded by French moviegoers and critics. Through August 5, 2012, visitors have access to over 700 drawings, photographs, costumes, figurines and film artifacts, many on display for the first time, in addition to a comprehensive film retrospective including limited-distribution shorts and extracts from his forthcoming projects.

After discovering the exhibit organized by New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2009, Serge Toubiana, director of the museum which hosts one of the world’s most extensive film archives, was intent on bringing it to Europe. He explained, “I had the pleasure of convincing our friends at the MoMA to accept continuing the exhibition’s itinerary all the way to Paris. The decisive element was the enthusiastic agreement of Tim Burton”.

Cinemathèque Française

51 rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris

(Closed Tuesdays)

Written by: Lindsey Tramuta

Fascinating story behind the Dutch network of bicycle paths and culture of cycling

Chilling. Carrie Manolakos’s cover of “Creep” is positively chilling. Watch in its entirety for full effect. 

NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY