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best cup cover i’ve watched yet

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:00:02 -0500

best cup cover i’ve watched yet

the-absolute-funniest-posts: lulz-time: Do you remember this...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:02:16 -0400

lulz-time:

Do you remember this picture?

Reblog>Click the picture> And see what happened! YOU’LL BE SURPRISED!

ounww

Lovely :’)

yayyyyy

god bless that ladyy

At first:

Then I reblogged and clicked the picture:

That lady deserves a medal.

god bless you miss <3

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

OMNGGGAEGADHGKJ

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry,..."

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:37:04 -0400

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

- Oscar Wilde (via story-dj)

The Artist:

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:45:37 -0400

In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.

As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

“It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,” said Lord Henry languidly. “You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse. The Grosvenor is really the only place.”

“I don’t think I shall send it anywhere,” he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh at him at Oxford. “No, I won’t send it anywhere.”

Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy, opium-tainted cigarette. “Not send it anywhere? My dear fellow, why? Have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion.”

“I know you will laugh at me,” he replied, “but I really can’t exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it.”

From Dorian Grey, by Oliver Wilde

bythegods: John Martin’s Apocalypse paintings. Ragnaroek From...

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:29:40 -0400

The Great Day of His Wrath

The Deluge

The Last Judgement

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

Le Pandaemonium Louvre

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum

The Seventh Plague of Egypt

bythegods:

John Martin’s Apocalypse paintings.

Ragnaroek

From Genesis to Revelations, nobody does apocalypse like the Bible.

Video

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:35:48 -0400

pulmonaire: Iris by Marc Quinn

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:18:59 -0400

pulmonaire:

Iris by Marc Quinn

artandsciencejournal: Ran Ortner In this work Swell by Ran...

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:18:33 -0400

artandsciencejournal:

Ran Ortner

In this work Swell by Ran Ortner, the artist has created the illusion of water coming out of the walls. It’s almost impossible to not be fooled by this illusion and, no matter how many times I try to see a 2D surface, I can only ever see the sea. Ortner’s fascination with water began during his romantic childhood in Alaska. As his portfolio describes his unlikely beginnings,

“He and his family lived in an isolated log cabin, with no running water, a wood fire for heat and a grass airstrip for a driveway. To escape the brutal winters, Ran and his family would take their single engine Cessna “Ragwing” on 3-4 month adventures from Alaska to South America. On these expeditions, Ran would turn to the open expanse of the sea to escape the confines of his unconventional childhood. When Ran was eighteen, he left home and began surfing the waves off the coasts of California and Mexico. While surfing he was able to consider both the wondrous and perilous conditions of life. Overwhelmed by what he saw and felt, he turned to art as a form of exploration.”

Ortner describes his works as a collision of opposing forces. “Every day I enter my studio, prepare my materials and, as James Joyce said, “go for the millionth time to encounter the reality of the experience.”I attempt through painting to sustain my encounter with life’s biting reality.” For more information on Ortner’s works, click here.

- Lee Jones

devidsketchbook: Artist Mateusz Nowakowski

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:06:01 -0400

devidsketchbook:

Artist Mateusz Nowakowski

Church Bells

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:00:16 -0400

ingridrichter:

In medieval times, church bells were often consecrated to ward off evil spirits. Because thunderstorms were attributed to the work of demons, the bells would be rung in an attempt to stop the storms. Lots of bellringers were killed by lightning.

Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts, 1979.

i like that boulder.

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:14:29 -0400

universejuice:

nosocialsavy:

weareawake-:

that is a nice boulder.

ITS NOT JUST A BOULDER

*sniff*

It’s a rock…

The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!

enjoy ash.

Sat, 05 May 2012 16:01:23 -0400

enjoy ash.

Kermit the Frog's German offense

Sat, 05 May 2012 15:23:21 -0400

Kermit the Frog's German offense

story-dj: Someone should make a medieval version of Star Wars.

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:37:25 -0400

story-dj:

Someone should make a medieval version of Star Wars.

nevver: What we’re reading

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:40:32 -0400

nevver:

What we’re reading

Video

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:37:25 -0400

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:37:13 -0400

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s

theatlanticvideo: The Waveform of a Dubstep Track...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:34:47 -0400

theatlanticvideo:

The Waveform of a Dubstep Track Visualized With 960 Vinyl Records

Director duo Us, aka Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor, animates hundreds of custom-cut records for Benga’s “I Will Never Change.” The records accumulate as the track builds over time, creating a mesmerizing physical volume that develops in parallel with the music

Via Motionographer.

Video

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:03:45 -0500

:)

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:03:33 -0500