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jtotheizzoe: The chemical formulas of various substances used...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:28:48 -0700

The chemical formulas of various substances used to mimic plant-based aromas and flavors.

Tastes like science.

tylose: theniftyfifties: Mary Jane Russell for Harper’s Bazaar,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:08:33 -0700

theniftyfifties:

Mary Jane Russell for Harper’s Bazaar, March 1959. Photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe.

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tylose: fairytalesandfrills: Astronomy, James...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:04:25 -0700

tylose:

fairytalesandfrills:

Astronomy, James Sant

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tylose: ampliflyahhhh: ghoulnextdoor: Lizzie Saint Septembre...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:01:14 -0700

tylose:

ampliflyahhhh:

ghoulnextdoor:

Lizzie Saint Septembre par Eric Keller

I also dreamed, right before I awoke, that I was some sort of Valkyrie, except I had been stripped of my formal title.

Such utter beauty….

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tylose: wasbella102: Rembrandt, Portret van Rembrandts...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:58:25 -0700

tylose:

wasbella102:

Rembrandt, Portret van Rembrandts zoon,Titus als monnik

(detail). 1660

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snow monkeys

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:37:02 -0800

snow monkeys

thereconstructionists: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (July 6,...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:05:58 -0800

thereconstructionists:

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954) remains best-known for her vibrant self-portraits, which comprise 55 of her 143 paintings and combine elements from traditional Mexican art with a surrealist aesthetic. This dual mesmerism with indigenous Mexican culture and the spirit of the new imbued Kahlo’s entire sensibility – she even insisted on stating July 7, 1910 as her birth date, rather than the correct date her birth certificate reflected, in order to make her birth coincide with the start of the Mexican revolution and thus align her life with the dawn of modern Mexico.

Kahlo was befallen by a disproportionate amount of medical misfortune. As a young child, she contracted polio, which prevented her right leg from developing fully – an imperfection she’d later come to disguise with her famous colorful skirts. As a teenager, while studying at Mexico’s prestigious Preparatoria school as one of only thirty-five girls, she was in a serious traffic accident, which left her with multiple body fractures and internal lesions inflicted by an iron rod that had pierced her stomach and uterus. It took her three months in full-body cast to recover and though she eventually willed her way to walking again, she spent the rest of her life battling frequent relapses of extreme pain and enduring frequent hospital visits, including more than thirty operations.

It was during her time in recovery that Kahlo first began painting, at first as a way of occupying herself while bedridden. Her mother even had a special easel made for her in order to be able to paint in bed with her father’s set of oil paints and brushes.

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best,” she famously reflected on her self-portraits.

Two years after the accident, in 1927, she met the painter Diego River, whose work she’d come to admire, and he went on to encourage and mentor her work. In 1929, despite her mother’s protestations, the two were wedded and one of art history’s most notoriously tumultuous marriages commenced. Both had multiple affairs, the most notable of which for bisexual Kahlo were with French singer, dancer, and actress Josephine Baker and Russian Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky.

Despite her work being inducted into the world’s most prestigious art institution when the Louvre purchased one of her self-portraits in 1939, Kahlo didn’t reach wide critical acclaim until the early 1980s and the advent of the Neomexicanismo movement. Previously, she had been frequently reduced in historical accounts to “Diego Rivera’s wife.” Today, her work endures as one of the most prominent and singular voices in twentieth-century art.

In her final days, shortly before turning 47, Kahlo wrote in her diary, “I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to return.”

Learn more: Wikipedia | Smithsonian Magazine

Desert Dark Night Bright planet Jupiter shines along the...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:09:13 -0800

Desert Dark Night

Bright planet Jupiter shines along the brightest region of the Milky Way; the galaxy’s central bulge in the constellations Scorpius and Sagittarius.

The dark appearance of clouds in the image is an evidence of an ideal dark sky. Any existing local light pollution would illuminates the clouds at night. The starry sky is photographed from the Death Valley, a desert in California and Nevada, United States. — Stefan Seip

Photo

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:04:54 -0800

by Alex Stoddard

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:43:28 -0800

by Alex Stoddard

steflemoine: Tous droits réservés. Stéphanie...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:14:50 -0800

steflemoine:

Tous droits réservés. Stéphanie Lemoine.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/St%C3%A9phanie-Lemoine-Stelf/279538405399062

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by 22-year-old Noell S. Oszvald via think-outside-the-box

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:13:30 -0800

by 22-year-old Noell S. Oszvald

via think-outside-the-box

zeroing: Jeremy Geddes

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:59:39 -0800

zeroing:

Jeremy Geddes

by camilla do rosario

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:53:02 -0800

by camilla do rosario

themagicfarawayttree: Alexander jansson

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:49:31 -0800

themagicfarawayttree:

Alexander jansson

“ People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:31:59 -0800

“

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

”—Banksy

darksilenceinsuburbia: John Salminen. Shanghai Street. St....

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:45:13 -0800

darksilenceinsuburbia:

John Salminen.

Shanghai Street.

St. Francis, S.F.

Parisian Stairs.

Chicago River.

Queensboro Bridge.

Via

a new one from nicoletta ceccoli love love love...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:27:51 -0800

a new one from nicoletta ceccoli

love love love her.

ibuprofanum:

Nicoletta Ceccoli

Oil Paintings by Yigal Ozeri flafliflaflu: Yigal Ozeri -...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:02:10 -0800

Oil Paintings by Yigal Ozeri

flafliflaflu:

Yigal Ozeri - Lizzie In The Snow (oil on canvas!)

artaarhus: Yigal Ozeri “untitled”

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:00:11 -0800

artaarhus:

Yigal Ozeri “untitled”

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jtotheizzoe: The chemical formulas of various substances used...

tylose: theniftyfifties: Mary Jane Russell for Harper’s Bazaar,...

tylose: fairytalesandfrills: Astronomy, James...

Astronomy, James Sant

tylose: ampliflyahhhh: ghoulnextdoor: Lizzie Saint Septembre...

tylose: wasbella102: Rembrandt, Portret van Rembrandts...

snow monkeys

thereconstructionists: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (July 6,...

Desert Dark Night Bright planet Jupiter shines along the...

Photo

by Alex Stoddard

steflemoine: Tous droits réservés. Stéphanie...

by 22-year-old Noell S. Oszvald via think-outside-the-box

zeroing: Jeremy Geddes

by camilla do rosario

themagicfarawayttree: Alexander jansson

“ People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into...

darksilenceinsuburbia: John Salminen. Shanghai Street. St....

a new one from nicoletta ceccoli love love love...

Oil Paintings by Yigal Ozeri flafliflaflu: Yigal Ozeri -...

artaarhus: Yigal Ozeri “untitled”