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The Cool Hall of Fame

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Marcel Proust playing air guitar on a tennis racket circa 1892

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Ray Bradbury: "Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.”

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A fox in London. (from the londonist.com)

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Charles and Ray Eames, design geniuses and badasses.

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J.S. Bach, First Sonata for Solo Violin: Adagio

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British and German soldiers exchanging cigarettes and other gifts during the Christmas Truce of 1914. December 24-25, 1914 - 97 years ago this Christmas.

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In mid-August 2010 ESO Photo Ambassador Yuri Beletsky snapped this amazing photo at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. A group of astronomers were observing the centre of the Milky Way using the laser guide star facility at Yepun, one of the four Unit Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT).

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"Floating Worlds"-- Edward Gorey's letters and illustrated envelopes. Edited by Peter Neumeyer.

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Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds Barbie Doll

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the angels in Wim Wender's "Wings of Desire" (1987) [actually, this could be from the sequel, but anyway.]

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the chambered nautilus

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My Dream Airstream Inside.

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

by Radge1965

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Photograph by Cesare Naldi, My Shot While diving near the coast of Santa Barbara Island in California, a group of sea lions surrounded me and started to play with my camera and strobes. This couple was particularly interested in their reflection on the dome port of my underwater housing.

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Kari Capetillo amazing...

Albert Einstein’s notebook

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The Talking Heads.

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//Colette, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Burgundy, 1930 by André Kertész

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laurie anderson.

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Maira Kalman's hat collection

V&A Reading Rooms, London. You can browse out-of-print, vintage and early additions alongside the V&A's own selection of art and design books while having wine or coffee.

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Best style book ever.

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blackbirdintuvalu I had forgotten but remember it now.

Galapagos tortoises.

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Edward Gorey's Doubtful Guest

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blackbirdintuvalu oh, LB, we are living parallel lives.

"Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist".

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blackbirdintuvalu okay...now? you're killing me.

library card catalog.

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Nautilus shell

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Shaolin monks performing "Sutra" (collaboration with Polish composer Szymon Brzoska and artist Anthony Gormley).

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Hundertwasser Apartment House, Vienna.

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Bugs Bunny (pre-1960).

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Gene Sharp, non-violent revolutionary.

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Tango in Buenos Aires.

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Nick and Nora Charles.

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Hitchcock's "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (especially Robert Donat).

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painter Julie Speed.

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The Marx Brothers.

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yul brynner.

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Nick Brandt, A Shadow Falls: ELEPHANT DRINKING, AMBOSELI, 2007

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blackbirdintuvalu from A Shadow Falls.

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LB Palmer Thanks! Credit added (I'm trying to go back through my earlier pins and do a better job of this).

La Saint-Chapelle, Paris

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Jean Kearney Magical experience to climb up to this stained glass chapel with the sun streaming in.

New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides).

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Mark Twain.

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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

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