Tales From The Back Pages
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You know you work in corporate when you have to attend a PowerPoint presentation about “the importance of keeping PowerPoint presentations under 20...
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No! Not my Jessica! Not pattycake! It can’t be! It just can’t be! Jessica’s my wife! It’s absolutely impossible! Jessica’s the love of my life....
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Iron Man 3 summed up in one picture.
Daniel Gray and Kathleen Starrie - An igloo constructed out of milk cartons filled with colored water and frozen
(via mizochelle)
adorable!cutest giant octopus attack ever
Look at the depth / shadows in these pictures! Just incredible! I feel like I could dive right in.
I can’t tell whether Ciaran Duffy used pop-out effects to get those shadows, or whether he (or she?) just painted it to look that way. And maybe it isn’t paint at all… maybe all of these images are 100% digital.
Either way, this is cool. I kind of like the mystery surrounding his (or her, again) process!
I can imagine a whole story based around this series, I really can.
Today we are inspired by some INCREDIBLE 3D STREET ART!!!!!
(via shadesofbrixton)
So glad I waited until I got home to watch this.Crayon Dragon. Source.
Get ready to cry at your desks.
My artwork was selected to be apart of a group exhibition entitled,
Push - Pull - Play, at the Target Gallery in Alexandria, VA. April 12 - May 3, 2012. Opening reception is April 12th, 6-8pm.
The juror for this exhibition is Prescott Trudeau, curator for the Children’s Museum of Art in Manhattan.“This exhibition is in participation with MINDS WIDE OPEN: Virginia Celebrates Children and the Arts 2012, a statewide collaboration of artists, arts organizations, and other institutions to present programs focusing on Children and the Arts.” Selected artists include: Ellen Benson, Ashley V. Blalock, Phillip Delacruz, Marlene Hawe, Erika Heffernan, Joel Jonientz, Melanie Kehoss, Caroline McCatty, Christopher Nitsche, Mallory Sloss, and Alex Waggoner.
Walked through this exhibit today while wandering around town. It was one of the best the Torpedo Factory’s had in awhile. Every piece was fascinating and as a collection it worked really well together.
هنا كتبت قصيدة محمود درويش “خذي فرسي واذبحيها” على شكل حصان. كتبت القصيدة بالخط الديواني.
.تبدأ القصيدة من رأس الحصان وتنتهي عند ذيله، وقد كتب اسم القصيدة واسم الشاعر في يمين الرسمة
This piece of Arabic Calligraphy depicts a horse using the text of Mahmoud Darwish’s poem Take My Horse and Slaughter It. The poem is written exactly once, beginning in the head of the horse and finishing in the tail in the Arabic Calligraphy Diwani Jali. The title of the poem, along with the author’s name, is written in the bottom right of the piece.
Take My Horse and Slaughter It
By Mahmoud Darwish
You, and not my craze with conquest, are my wedding.
I left to myself and its match in your devil self
the freedom to comply with your demands,
take my horse
and slaughter it,
and I will walk like a warrior after defeat
without dream or sense …
Salaam upon what you desire of fatigue
for the captive prince, and of gold for the maidens
to celebrate the summer. And salaam upon you
abounding with suitors of every jinn and man,
for what you’ve done to yourself for
yourself: your hairpin breaks
my shield and my sword,
and your shirt button bears in its glare
the secret word of birds of every sort,
take my breath the way a guitar responds
to what you demand of the wind. All of my Andalus
is within your hands, so don’t leave a single string
for self-defense in the land of my Andalus.
I will realize, in another time,
I will realize that I have won with my despair
and that I have found my life, over there
outside itself, near my past
take my horse
and slaughter it, and I will carry myself dead and alive,
by myself…
(via shadesofbrixton)
Pluto e Proserpina (Pluto and Persephone)
By far, my favorite piece of almost all Italian art by my favorite Italian artist, Bernini. And to think, this was done with marble, 400 years ago, by a man of only 23 years.
Obligatory reblog because of Tumblr name reasons.
(via queenstahma)
![“In August 2007 Gerhard Richter’s new stained glass window for the south transept of Cologne Cathedral was unveiled. The original window was destroyed in World War II and had been replaced with plain glass. Inspired by Richter’s 1974 painting ‘4096 Farben’, the window consists of around 11,500 hand-blown glass squares in 72 different colours. Echoing the colours of the surrounding windows, Richter’s illuminated abstraction blends a modernist aesthetic with the Gothic ecclesiastical architecture of the cathedral.”
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“In August 2007 Gerhard Richter’s new stained glass window for the south transept of Cologne Cathedral was unveiled. The original window was destroyed in World War II and had been replaced with plain glass. Inspired by Richter’s 1974 painting ‘4096 Farben’, the window consists of around 11,500 hand-blown glass squares in 72 different colours. Echoing the colours of the surrounding windows, Richter’s illuminated abstraction blends a modernist aesthetic with the Gothic ecclesiastical architecture of the cathedral.”
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