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nickdrake: Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino By Denis Rouvre

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:31:16 +0100

nickdrake:

Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino By Denis Rouvre

thisistheverge: 1962 … early Lunar lander design! (by x-ray...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:28:46 +0100

thisistheverge:

1962 … early Lunar lander design! (by x-ray delta one)

I saw a finished version at the science museum in London two weeks ago. I love science.

Photo

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:17:40 +0000

futuristgerd: Future of Creative Industries, a set on...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:15:46 +0000

futuristgerd:

Future of Creative Industries, a set on Flickr.

https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A25n8hH4SkCC0

Halita?

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:13:55 +0000

Halita?

thecorporatebrander: joecatholic: As Cardinal Jorge Mario...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:40:02 +0000

thecorporatebrander:

joecatholic:

As Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis showed compassion for the victims of HIV-AIDS and in 2001, visited a hospice to kiss and wash the feet of 12 AIDS patients as seen in the picture below.

In 2008, he washed the feet of 12 recovering drug addicts at a rehabilitation center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is from.

Lord, may we all practice humility as seen in Pope Francis.

The recent emergence of Francis I as Pope and Bishop of Rome has been attended by feverish anticipation and celebration. His ascension to the seat of Saint Peter has many favourable aspects to it. The world’s 1.2 billion Catholics already appear revitalized by such a charismatic and personable figure as the new Pope. Many aspects of his life, such as his humility, are going to be instrumental in realigning the corporate identity and the corporate brand of the Catholic Church in light of its recent scandals. Not since John Paul II has an individual frenzied up St. Peter’s basilica and billions of television, computer and mobile device screens in just the same way as Pope Francis has. In a follow up to this post we’ll have a look at a few of the reasons why he is the ideal corporate brand manager of the Catholic Church.

--=JOE CATHOLIC=--: Words of Card. Bergoglio (Pope Francis) In a pastoral letter for Holy...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:09:05 +0000

--=JOE CATHOLIC=--: Words of Card. Bergoglio (Pope Francis) In a pastoral letter for Holy...:...

celob: Tupac - Tupac said this at 17

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:46:08 +0000

celob:

Tupac - Tupac said this at 17

worldofstdupont: “Clothes make the man. Naked people have...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:44:19 +0000

worldofstdupont:

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” -Mark Twain

The Schizophrenic Murdering Artist Richard Dadd was a young...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:43:24 +0000

Photograph by Henry Hering (ca. 1856) of Dadd painting Contradiction: Oberon and Titania.

Detail of the main section showing the Fairy-Feller about to hew the nut - Source: Tate (Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke c.1855-64, Tate)

The Schizophrenic Murdering Artist

Richard Dadd was a young British painter of huge promise who fell into mental illness while touring the Mediterranean in the early 1840s. He spent over forty years in lunatic asylums, dying at Broadmoor in 1886. During that time he painted, producing mesmerizingly detailed watercolors and oil paintings of which The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke is now the most well known.

Among the symptoms of Dadd’s illness – which sounds today like a form of schizophrenia – were delusions of persecution and the receipt of messages from the Ancient Egyptian deity Osiris. Dadd was commanded to kill his father and did so in the summer of 1843. After an equally well planned escape to France, the artist was eventually admitted to the Criminal Lunatic department of Bethlem Hospital in Lambeth (now the Imperial War Museum) and it was here that he painted the Fairy Feller. According to the inscription on the back of the canvas it took him nine years to complete, between 1855 and 1864.

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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 06:20:53 +0000

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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:39:09 +0000

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buzz: Spent yesterday on bike appreciating Palm Springs...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:37:46 +0000

buzz:

Spent yesterday on bike appreciating Palm Springs modernist architecture, including the Kaufmann House (pictured above in a famous photo by Julius Shulman), a Richard Neutra building commissioned by the same Pittsburgh department store magnate who built Fallingwater. A little bit of additional research on the landmark after I got home uncovered the following anecdote about one-time owner Barry Manilow and his questionable modifications:

It is not known what changes were made by the Klein’s, but of the Manilow years, Beth Harris relates an amusing story. Filmmaker John Waters visited Manilow at the house during his ownership. Manilow had decorated the two guest bedrooms for favored guests; one was actress/comedienne Susanne Somers — the other was a male friend. Somers’ suite was tricked out with wallpaper, drapes, linens, and bed clothes done in a famous Laura Ashley lavender floral print. The other guest room was decorated with faux-marble wall coverings and stage-set Roman columns. The interiors of the main house were also extensively wall-papered. Years later, upon a return visit to Palm Springs, Waters toured the Harris’ extensive restoration, remarking to Beth with an arch grin: “My dear, you’ve just ruined the place!”

joshuatopolsky: Ai Weiwei designed this. It’s awesome.

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:37:13 +0000

joshuatopolsky:

Ai Weiwei designed this. It’s awesome.

ancientart: Assyrian Relief with Winged Genius, dates...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:30:44 +0000

ancientart:

Assyrian Relief with Winged Genius, dates to between 883 and 859 BC (Neo-Assyrian), made of alabaster.

Courtesy & currently located at the Walters Art Museum, USA:

This relief decorated the interior wall of the northwest palace of King Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud, which is situated in present-day Iraq. With his right hand, the genius (or benevolent spirit) uses a cone-shaped object to sprinkle from his bucket some magic potion upon either a sacred tree or the king depicted on the adjacent relief. The genius wears the horned crown of a deity and the elegant jewelry and fringed cloak of contemporary courtiers.