thegetty:

Remarkably realistic for medieval illuminated beasts, which were often fabulous admixtures of fantasy and fur. The unicorn is clearly drawn from life, for example.

(Source: nihtegale)

maudelynn:

“Let His Dancing Find Him Out” Dance Lovers Magazine

motobilia:

1910 Griffon knocking through the French countryside by -bullittmcqueen- #flickstackr

Flickr: http://flic.kr/p/eoNWDJ

This is what Yahoo paid $1.3 Billion for.

castielofasgard:

letmypeopleshow:

Let It Bleed: The Met’s New Rooftop Painting

After the last two massive, vertiginous installations on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which demanded able bodies and rubber soles, this summer there’s a finally a piece everyone can walk on.

But this one is scarier.

It’s a landscape painted in situ by Imran Qureshi, an artist from Pakistan. Playing off the setting above Central Park, he has rendered bursts of ornamental foliage, exuberant and elegant. They look like enormous details of the gardens in Mughal miniatures, an intricate genre he spent years mastering.

In this garden, though, something terrible has happened.

Switching from the elaborate detail of the Islamic miniature to the ritual dance of modernist action painting, Qureshi has splattered the roof in paint, blood-red like the leaves. It takes a moment to perceive the scope of the tragedy that may have unfolded in such a setting. The piece, the artist says, is a response to violence that has occurred around the world in recent decades. He calls it And How Many Rains Must Fall before the Stains Are Washed Clean.

There is no shortage of war art at the Met, of course. But at a time when the museum has one Civil War show on view and another opening this month, there is a particular sense of trauma and despair in some of its galleries, especially because so many of the 19th-century images echo what we see in the daily news.

It was as a response to bombings in Lahore that Qureshi began using red acrylic paint in his art, creating tragic landscapes that negate the idea of paradise on earth.

While the Met piece was in the works, the Boston bombings occurred. In another symbolic gesture, Qureshi decided not to paint the entire surface.

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Imran Qureshi, And How Many Rains Must Fall before the Stains Are Washed Clean, installation view, 2013, acrylic.

COMMISSIONED BY THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK FOR THE IRIS AND B. GERALD CANTOR ROOF GARDEN.

pastperfect-online:

Did you know “on May 17, 1884, circus promoter P. T. Barnum led 21 elephants over the Brooklyn Bridge to prove that it was stable”?

This image of the bridge can be found in the online collection of the Brooklyn Historical Society.

This week’s What Is It answer: button guard

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fishingboatproceeds:

Some people have asked to read the commencement address I delivered this morning to the 2013 graduates of Butler University. So here it is.

My own commencement speaker, who shall remain nameless, began with a lame joke about how these speeches only come in two varieties: Short and bad. This…

FINALS INSPIRATIONAL POST

maryhomegirl:

WHEN YOU THINK YOU CAN’T MANAGE TO WRITE OR STUDY ANY MORE

GO GET ‘EM

robobat:

hannahbananafeefifofanna:

getbentgetbent:

saiyan:

 

Actually, the “door” in question is actually not a door at all!

If we turn this “door” clockwise we reveal…

…that it is actually a door frame!!

It is a piece of paneling from the doorframe in the First Class lounge based off a piece that was actually recovered:

This piece isn’t more than 3cm at maximum thickness!

In reality, if the panel in the movie was based off the actual panel, 

It shouldn’t have held either of them afloat!!

Holy fuck

omfg Layton

i’m crying

rogerwilkerson:

theresthemoonmum:

Oh, dear…

I was watching the Rifleman on MeTV this afternoon and was looking for imagery when I heard about an “infamous” comic book cover… I got one helluva laugh! :)

Oh my…that’s disturbing