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artemisdreaming: Two figures (Deux personnages), 1904 Pablo...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:57:16 -0400

artemisdreaming:

Two figures (Deux personnages), 1904

Pablo Picasso

theantidote: A cup of coffee by Benchik (via nabiloou:)

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:54:49 -0400

theantidote:

A cup of coffee by Benchik

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fashionandbones: Elle Serbia May 2013 Natasa Vojnovic and...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:54:42 -0400

fashionandbones:

Elle Serbia May 2013
Natasa Vojnovic and Georgina Stojiljkovic by Milos Nadazdin

theantidote: The Corn Poppy by Kees van Dongen

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:21:35 -0400

theantidote:

The Corn Poppy by Kees van Dongen

“When I adopted my children, I had to become more of a giving...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:17:16 -0400

“When I adopted my children, I had to become more of a giving person. And I had never been like that. I had been completely self-involved. I am an actress, after all!” - Diane Keaton

turaif: photo by dhahi alali

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:12:00 -0400

turaif:

photo by dhahi alali

theantidote: Ophelia by Odilon Redon c. 1900 - 1905. Collection...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:49:56 -0400

theantidote:

Ophelia by Odilon Redon c. 1900 - 1905. Collection of Dian Woodner, New York.

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"But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:47:37 -0400

“But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes.”

- Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

(via leopoldgursky)

Photo

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:22:52 -0400

likeafieldmouse: Sayaka Ganz - Emergence (2011) - Discarded...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:50:41 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Sayaka Ganz - Emergence (2011) - Discarded plastic

An Afghan livestock seller is shouting to sell his sheep in a...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:49:47 -0400

An Afghan livestock seller is shouting to sell his sheep in a market in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. | Photo: Fawad Azimi [x]

firsttimeuser: thats-the-way-it-was: March 15, 1972: The...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:08:00 -0400

firsttimeuser:

thats-the-way-it-was:

March 15, 1972: The Godfather opens

On this day in 1972, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather — a three-hour epic chronicling the lives of the Corleones, an Italian-American crime family led by the powerful Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is released in theaters.

Photo: Talia Shire (Talia Rose Coppola) and Marlon Brando dance in the wedding scene. (Mondadori Portfolio by Getty)

pashtundukhtaree: Afghanistan, © Steve Mccurry

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:16:50 -0400

pashtundukhtaree:

Afghanistan,

© Steve Mccurry

biscodeja-vu: Saudi Arabian fashionable man photographed by...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:08:55 -0400

biscodeja-vu:

Saudi Arabian fashionable man photographed by Thierry Mauger.

theantidote: Let me tell you about winds There is a whirlwind...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:23:45 -0500

theantidote:

Let me tell you about winds

There is a whirlwind in southern Morocco, the أجج (aajej—“enflamed”), against which the fellahin defend themselves with knives. There is the hot, dry غيبلي (ghibli) from Tunis, which rolls and rolls and produces a nervous condition. The هبوب (haboob—“blowing”)—a Sudan dust storm that dresses in bright yellow and is followed by rain. The harmattan, which blows and eventually drowns itself into the Atlantic. The إمبات (imbat) a sea breeze from North Africa that blows out the lamps. The خمسين (khamsin), a dust storm in Egypt named after the Arabic word for ‘fifty’—the ninth plague of Egypt.

There is also the —-, the secret wind of the desert, whose name was erased by a king after his son died within it.

And the نفحة (nafhat—“whiff”)—a blast out of Arabia. The مزار-افلسٍ—a violent wind known to the Berbers as ‘that which robs the saints.’ As well as “poison winds,” the سموم (simoom—“toxic”), of North Africa.

Other, private winds.

There are always millions of tons of dust in the air, just as there are millions of cubes of air in the earth and more living flesh in the soil than there is grazing and existing upon it. Herodotus records the death of various armies engulfed in the simoom who were never seen again. One nation was “so enraged by this evil wind that they declared war on it and marched out in full battle array, only to be rapidly and completely interred.”

Dust storms in three shapes. The whirl. The column. The sheet. In the first the horizon is lost. In the second you are surrounded by “waltzing Djinns.” The third, the sheet, is copper-tinted. Nature seems to be on fire.

— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (slight revision by me, with the inclusion of Arabic)

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suicideblonde: Madonna photographed by Herb Ritts

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:15:26 -0500

suicideblonde:

Madonna photographed by Herb Ritts

a-bittersweet-life: There is no limit of what can be shown. I...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:45:51 -0500

a-bittersweet-life:

There is no limit of what can be shown. I would say that there is a limit of taste, but the limit of taste is a very individual one, of course. I personally think that you should not show, you should not lie with images or manipulate for that matter. This is my personal limit of what can be shown. I think you should make visible the dramatic tricks that you use. But this is an aesthetic problem. Besides this, I think that there is nothing which can not be shown. The question is rather: How do I show this or that?

Michael Haneke

Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion (1965)

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:11:00 -0500

Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion (1965)

firsttimeuser: Ferdinando Scianna. Jorge Luis Borges, Palermo....

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:05:26 -0500

firsttimeuser:

Ferdinando Scianna. Jorge Luis Borges, Palermo. 1984

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firsttimeuser: Landscape with road in Kärnten, 1957 by Toni...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:16:16 -0500

firsttimeuser:

Landscape with road in Kärnten, 1957 by Toni Schneiders