thekimonogallery:

‘The photo above shows the central living area of a rural farmhouse on the border of Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures. The house was restored by Kenji Tsuchisawa who bought it as a rundown heap when he was only 20.’ 

aftershe:

egberts:

lets have a sleepover and ignore each other while we blog

and occasionally show eachother funny text posts

archiemcphee:

Nowtoo Sugi lives in Japan and likes to relax by creating awesome and unusually colourful works of latte art. It’s a truly delicious and delightful hobby.

Starting this past February, Sugi began using colored bartender syrups to, as the hobby artist says, “paint” on coffee. Sugi isn’t the only one to create colorful lattes, but is certainly one of the best. 

So, for example, Sugi uses Blue Hawaii syrup for, well, blue and strawberry syrup for red or pink. The colors are mixed with steamed milk for variation.

Head over to Kotaku to view many more examples of Nowtoo Sugi’s awesome latte art. Then visit Nowtoo Sugi’s YouTube channel to watch how some of these amazing works of beverage art were made.

[via Kotaku]

yorkeantiquetextiles:

“The photo above shows the traditional indoor fire pit known as an irori, which sometimes sits on a raised seating platform, though in the photo above the irori has been traded for a more efficient (and safer) wood stove. The beautiful half-frosting on the glass screen doors in the photo above provides some privacy from the fairly public courtyard for people seated inside.”

Protect the one thing you want to protect until the end.

kodanshacomics:

via Crunchyroll:

Japanese manga industry blog Comic Natalie is hosting an online competition for Japanese bookstores with their most creative in-store displays promoting the release of Attack On Titan vol. 10 and the site has opened up voting to the general public.

Steps to take if you would like to vote for participating bookstores:

1. Follow the Attack On Titan Display Contest Official Twitter account from the main contest page. It’s the blue button that says “twitter”.

2. Check out photos of display at various places and vote for your favorite by clicking the star underneath the photos.

3. You can get a special smartphone / pc wallpaper when you finish voting. 10 people will receive all AOT volumes free until the story concludes (whether international residents will qualify for this prize is not specified).

The voting period is from April 5 to May 31st, and the store with most votes will be able to host an autograph session by Hajime Isayama, the author of AOT, as well as being awarded a trip for two to Germany.

Oh my gosh, these look so cool!!! I wish we could do something like this here in the US. *o*

(Source: get-crucial)

hearsefeathers:

Woah.

ibetmittromney:

• Kanye West
• Jay-Z
• Nicki Minaj
• 50 Cent
• Lil B
• A$AP Rocky
• Fat Joe
• Queen Latifah

Please stop fucking acting like Macklemore is this special snowflake for being a rapper who supports gay marriage. I know yall love to pretend that black people are homophobes, so obviously the music we make must be homophobic, but that is bullshit and Wacklemore is not the first rapper to publicly support gay marriage.

spelledjustlikeescape:

i’m breathing in

the chemicals

shedisenchants:

shedisenchants:

so every year after the juniors finish reading The Great Gatsby my high school english teacher throws a Gatsby party at his huge house and everyone shows up in period clothing and Charlestons to 20s music and my english teacher just wears a suit and stands off to the side staring wistfully out the window the entire night

you guys think I’m joking??

crowsing:

Twinkle, twinkle little star (◡‿◡✿)

Sourcing art is not that hard (ʘ‿ʘ✿)

violet-psychofluid:

Future hoop + fire hoop

seifukucat:

i wear the maid outfit in this relationship

theartofanimation:

Yutaan