‘A nice image’, yes it is, by Oscar Mendoza.

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David Bowie’s Space Oddity Cover

Recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

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Note from Ron: We live in the future. 

“Lock your Soyuz hatch and put your helmet on”.

This is just magical.

Wow.

Aaron Siskind 
Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation, 1956
Gelatin silver print

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Torre de comunicação da Gazeta, onde fica minha faculdade, universidade paulista (em Avenida Paulista) —

Gazeta TV and communications antenna, Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.

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KT Tunstall 

— Black horse and the cherry tree 

SEEN AT HACKESCHER MARKT

BERLIN MITTE

© CHRISTIAN PAUL KUSCH 2013

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The Rumpus interview with Kevin Smokler, author of Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touched Since High School.

Hadley Freeman: In case you missed the memo, upper arms are the new trophy female body part, the one that signifies belonging to a certain class

Last night, at Praça Rosa, São Paulo, during the first meeting of the open-to-all Extraordinary Commission on Human Rights and Minorities (Comissão Extraordinaria de Direitos Humanos e Minorias). Led by the trans cartoonist Laerte and congressman Jean Wyllys, the commission sprang up as a reaction to the appointment of Marco Feliciano, a bigoted, homophobic evangelical pastor, as president of Brazil’s Congressional Human Rights Commission.

‘I’d rather my sexuality were of no consequence. But it is. It’s stigmatised. The only way I have of rising above that stigma is to incarnate that identity, but I’d prefer it if I didn’t have to.’ Jean Wyllys, a member of Brazil’s parliament who incredibly, rose to fame by winning Big Brother. 

Photo from NINJA Facebook page.

Victoria amazonica water lilies can reach 20 feet in circumference and support up to 300 pounds each. Perching children atop the massive leaves was all the rage in water gardens of the time. Salem, North Carolina, c. 1892. Photograph by Frank Hege, National Geographic, at 

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Morrissey 

— Break up the family 

By marinenobrasil.

Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueback cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?

by Robert Hayden

The beautiful Casa de Vidro, a 1951 modernist masterpiece in Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil. It was the home of the architect Lina Bo Bardi, who also built São Paulo’s astonishing MASP art museum, and conjured SESC Pompeia from a former factory.

I’ve written about the Casa de Vidro in our English-language blog at Folha de S.Paulo this week - Concrete and jungle: São Paulo’s Glass House.