Yoshitaka Kashima does some of the most gorgeous casual urban photography I’ve seen: mesmerizing, magical snapshots of Japan’s alleys, bookstores, subways.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. – Japanese proverb
Category Archives: art & illustration
Dreamy Snapshots of Japan: Urban Photography
CoffeeLetter: Peanut butter noodles, rain on the docks, new spring books
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League of Legends Fan Art
by Alex Negrea
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Sunflower Field
How long did you wait for the sun to find you before you fled your unlit rooms and your flickering screens and took barefoot to all the fields outside your door?
[photo by Select Study Abroad, text by Coffeegirl]
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Art Love: Rain on the Docks
Before just the daylight
Come and I stand by
Waiting to catch the quickest plane
Fly me to nowhere
it’s better than somewhere
That’s where I’ve been and nothing’s changed –“Angel of Mercy,” One Republic
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Illustration Love
I am not quite certain, but I think that this gorgeous landscape is from this Japanese artist
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Illustration Love: Bend and Not Break, Clara Oswald
Designer and illustrator Alice X Zhang is one of my favorite illustrators of all time. Check out her portfolio here. 
Bend and not Break
Remember me
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Illustration Love: Airships, Bookstores, and Lakes
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling
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Imaginary Worlds: Archan Nair and The Phantom Tolbooth
“If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.”
-Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Coffee and Irony 