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Sublime Things is giving away copies of Qompendium, Volume 1. Simply e-mail kristian.andersen@gmail.com with a sublime idea, person, image, or thought. Doesn’t have to be your own, but shouldn’t have been featured on the site. The most sublime things will be featured on the site and the winners receive one of the most beautiful independent publications right now.

About Qompendium:

Qompendium is a selective journey through the multiverse of intentional and unintentional time capsules featuring an array of exceptional pictorial essays, unabridged interviews and supplementary brand editorials. It features a number of pictorial essays bringing to light six decades of history, composed and compiled from masterpieces captured by Douglas Kirkland and Deborah Feingold. Other artists range from Lyn Balzer, Tony Perkins to Valérie Belim, Aubrey de Grey, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Todd DiCiurcio, Laurence Ellis, Emir Eralp, Clinton Friedman, Dominik Gigler, David Lees, Siems Luckwaldt, Paul Pope, Nick Sagan, Daniel Stier, Ben Watts, Martynka Wawrzyniak, Christian Weber, Doug Wilson, Per Zennström and abundant others – all work designed and placed in a strikingly unusual and unpredictable editorial design environment .The brand editorial section of the magazine is overindulged with creations by Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Jil Sander, Jean Paul Gaultier, Narciso Rodriguez, Prada, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Yves Saint Laurent, Kiehl’s, Omega Watches and Lee Jeans, taking a short cut to the Bauhaus giant László Moholy-Nagy.

Academics, you got owned! This shit is the illest ever.

I normally don’t post ads, but there are a few that reach a sublime level. This is one of them.

One of my favorite looks from Lanvin’s spring 2011 menswear.

Antonio Ligabue was and was an Italian painter, one of the most important Naïve artists of the 20th century.

Wendingen was an art magazine that appeared from 1918 to 1932.

Paolo Venini (1895 – 1959) emerged as one of the leading figures in the production of Murano glass and an important contributor to twentieth-century design.

Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana is an icon of Fascist architecture.

Foro Bonaparte, Milan. Never realized, but god damn.

Palazzo Dario is a Venetian palace on the Grand Canal of Venice at the mouth of the Rio delle Torreselle in the Dorsoduro section of Venice and located on the Campiello Barbaro. The palazzo was built in the floral Venetian Gothic style and was refaced with Renaissance features. The palace’s formal address is “Dorsoduro 352″. Palazzo Dario is often described as one of Venice’s most exotic palaces and typically compared to Ca d’Oro. It resides on an enchanting little square, the Campiello Barbaro, named in honor of the patrician Barbaro family members who lived there. The square is shaded by trees and flanked by Palazzo Dario itself. The palazzo’s eccentric beauty was of special interest to John Ruskin who described its marble-encrusted oculi in great detail.

Legendary art director.

Robert Rabensteiner, L’Uomo Vogue fashion editor. Such masculinity and softness at the same time. Sick!

Conceptual poetic brilliance from Mexican artist Fernando Ortega. Repped by Lisson Gallery.

Frank Chu (born 24 March 1960) is one of San Francisco’s best-known eccentrics. His street protests against US Presidents, corporations, and a distinctive concept he calls the “12 Galaxies” have been held in San Francisco and nearby locales since at least 1995. In early 1985, Chu, then 24 years old, took 11 members of his family hostage in his home in Oakland and was reported to have beaten one or more with his fists.

The Wombles are fictional pointy-nosed, furry creatures that live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in useful and ingenious ways. Wombles were created by author Elisabeth Beresford, originally appearing in a series of children’s novels from 1968. The characters later became nationally famous in the mid 1970s as a result of a popular BBC children’s television show using stop motion animation. A number of spin-off novelty songs also became major hits in the British music charts. Their motto is “Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish.” This “green” message was a reflection of the ecology movement of the 1970s.

Designed by Thompson. Brass pistol-shaped camera with scope, wooden pistol grip, but no barrel. Takes four 23mm diameter exposures in rapid succession on a 7.5 cm circular wet plate.

In 1968, a magazine with the programmatic title Provoke was published in Tokyo by the photographer and writer Takuma Nakahira, the art critic Koji Taki and other members. Investigating the relation between photography and text, the magazine was an artistic and philosophical manifesto, responding to the upheavals of the late sixties. Originally published in very small editions (Provoke magazine had a print run of 1,000 copies), the publications reprinted in The Japanese Box are extremely rare today and almost impossible to find, even in Japan.

Armin Linke

Sheats Goldstein Residence, is a house designed and built between 1961 and 1963 by American architect John Lautner in Beverly Hills, California. The house has been featured in several movies, including Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Bandits, and The Big Lebowski.

The holy city.

Mountain men were trappers and explorers who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 to the early 1840s. Mountain men were ethnically, socially, and religiously diverse. Most were born in Canada, the United States, or in Spanish-governed Mexican territories, although some European immigrants moved west in search of financial opportunity. Mountain men were primarily motivated by profit, trapping beaver and selling the skins, although some were more interested in exploring the West.

The Blackwing 602 is a discontinued model of pencil that has developed a cult following as “the best pencil ever made“. It was produced by the Eberhard Faber company until 1998. Initially sold for 50 cents, Blackwings were being sold for $20 in 2006, and as of 2009 cost about $35 on E-Bay.

The brilliant 032c has expanded their web presence.

The Two Ronnies is a British sketch show that aired on BBC1 from 1971 to 1987.

Harvey Abrams. Antiquarian book dealer specializing in Olympic Games & Sports books, posters, medals, medallions, badges & collectibles.

24 volume set. $599.00

Amazing poster for Sofia Coppola’s new film.

Great resource for A.C. Milan history and memorabilia. Lots of visuals.

Opulence.

By the 1830′s, the English had become the major drug-trafficking criminal organization in the world; very few drug cartels of the twentieth century can even touch the England of the early nineteenth century in sheer size of criminality. Growing opium in India, the East India Company shipped tons of opium into Canton which it traded for Chinese manufactured goods and for tea. This trade had produced, quite literally, a country filled with drug addicts, as opium parlors proliferated all throughout China in the early part of the nineteenth century.

Rock chic dressing. Real dressing.

The argonauts are a group of octopuses unlike any other. The females secrete a thin, white, brittle shell called the paper nautilus. Nestled with their arms tucked inside this beautiful, translucent home, they drift through the open ocean while other octopus species crawl along the sea floor.

First published by Random House in 1968, Russell H. Greenan’s It Happened in Boston? is the story of a brilliantly talented, unbalanced artist who strives to meet God face-to-face in order to destroy Him. It is a magic spell of a book phantasmagoric, lushly written, full of unforgettable characters and brilliant twists of plot, writes Jonathan Lethem in his Introduction. With a vivid depiction of the art world and a breathtaking narrative that incorporates forgery, time travel, and murder.

Budai finds himself in a strange city where he can’t understand a word anyone says. One claustrophobic day blurs into another as he desperately struggles to survive in this vastly overpopulated metropolis where there are as many languages as there are people.

Bruce Chatwin was a fan. That about says all you need to know. Get book.

One of the 9 muses.