Profane Love

When you wish to be natural, you become common.

SOMEONE COME CUDDLE WITH ME.

naturepunk:

Except not because my place is a total mess and the cat is on catnip and will attack you if the dog doesn’t lick you to death first. 

I need a hug. 

That sounds like the most awesome cuddle adventure ever.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.

—Brian Eno (via cavetocanvas)

(Source: jessiethatcher, via cavetocanvas)

rhamphotheca:

Scientists Capture One of the World’s Rarest Big Cats on Film

by Jeremy Hance

Less than a hundred kilometers from the bustling metropolis of Jakarta, scientists have captured incredible photos of one of the world’s most endangered big cats: the Javan leopard (Panthera pardus melas). Taken by a research project in Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park, the photos show the magnificent animal relaxing in dense primary rainforest. Scientists believe that fewer than 250 mature Javan leopard survive, and the population may be down to 100…

(read more: MongaBay)              (photos: Age Kridalaksana/CIFOR)

Rare, and cute!

(via zooophagous)

wildhyaena:

I can’t get over how adorable Jake is. LOOK AT HOW FRIGGIN ADORABLY CUTE HE IS WHEN HE GETS A BATH.

I couldn’t find a share button on Facebook for all of these, so all photos are copyright Bryan Hawn and whoever took them.

Hyena bath time! :3

(via glowhyena)