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giver-of-armbands:

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:19:11 -0400

annacarrota: Let’s Draw Sherlock Challenge: Reinterpreting...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:28:04 -0400

Let’s Draw Sherlock Challenge: Reinterpreting Famous Works!

This is my version of the work The Three Skulls by Paul Cézanne.

Of course, the middle one is just an old friend of Sherlock -well he said friend…

Pencils, charcoal, soft pastels

veertjed: flyxlittlewing: thesoullove: Ouki Kaname and Asaka...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:24:38 -0400

veertjed:

flyxlittlewing:

thesoullove:

Ouki Kaname and Asaka Manato - Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Soragumi 2012).

… Or, as flyxlittlewing put it so aptly: “When people sing to each other about the stars, they normally end up married somehow.”

~~(Not quiet, but it was damn close)~~
(And as much as I love this show, I still think it was a little unfair to Mirion.)

For the record, I stand by what I said. (I know that the stars aren’t the main point of the song, but still!!)

This is one of my favourite scenes and songs from LOGH, including the little exchange they have after the song and the running off together giggling like happy little children. It’s such a sweet moment of understanding between friends, showing just how much they need one another. (Moreso, how much Reinhard needs Kircheis.)

I have the bugging feeling that I know the melody from somewhere. (A movie or something? or another Zuka play…)

ancientart: Antinous Farnese, Statue of Antinous. Reelaboration...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:16:51 -0400

ancientart:

Antinous Farnese, Statue of Antinous. Reelaboration of the 2nd century AD after a Greek original of the Late Classical period, made of marble.

Courtesy & currently located at the Naples National Archaeological Museum, Italy. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen.

geisha-licious: A geisha with cat, 1905 by BLUE_RUIN1 on...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:10:25 -0400

geisha-licious:

A geisha with cat, 1905 by BLUE_RUIN1 on Flickr

"Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει"

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:07:54 -0400

““Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει””

- All is flux, and nothing abides.

- Heraclitus (c. 535-475 BC), quoted in Plato, Cratylus 402a, and Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, IX.8 (c. 3rd century BC)

Photo

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:05:15 -0400

jardinspluie: Isoda Koryusai: Oiran playing shamisen 1785

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:57:24 -0400

jardinspluie:

Isoda Koryusai: Oiran playing shamisen

1785

jessamygriffith: Howl: I feel terrible, like there’s a weight...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:57:09 -0400

jessamygriffith:

Howl: I feel terrible, like there’s a weight on my chest.
Sophie: A heart’s a heavy burden.

I love her silvery hair at the end.

Photo

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:37:00 -0400

We’re all human. Oh, we all do our duty when there’s no cost to...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:46:00 -0400

_{We’re all human. Oh, we all do our duty when there’s no cost to it. Honor comes easy then. Yet sooner or later in every man’s life there comes a day when it’s not easy. A day when he must choose.}_{You must make that choice yourself, and live with it for the rest of your days.}

dekutree: thanks to manga, every time i see a comic strip i read it backwards and get confused

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:25:50 -0400

dekutree:

thanks to manga, every time i see a comic strip i read it backwards and get confused

nottonyharrison: Pepper, Steve, Tony - Prohibition era AU -...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:14:45 -0400

nottonyharrison:

Pepper, Steve, Tony - Prohibition era AU - vintage by *nottonyharrison

Vintage photograph style variant of this image. Background is a composite of hand drawn, photos, and patterns

if i look back i’m lost.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:56:21 -0400

_{if i look back i’m lost.}

lyndsayfaye: Pretty much in love with Alan Rickman forever.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:49:45 -0400

lyndsayfaye:

Pretty much in love with Alan Rickman forever.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:34:35 -0400

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game

myimaginarybrooklyn: The bookplate art of Joe Dragunas.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:27:09 -0400

myimaginarybrooklyn:

The bookplate art of Joe Dragunas.

havingbeenbreathedout: The Kahlo family portrait. Frida...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:05:19 -0400

havingbeenbreathedout:

The Kahlo family portrait.

Frida (pictured far left in suit) would’ve been 19 at the time.

I feel morally obligated to reblog this whenever I see it, ever since Leontine was kind enough to say that Kahlo in a suit looks like me. :-)

consultingpiskies: For Let’s Draw Sherlock I chose a classical...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:48:58 -0400

consultingpiskies:

For Let’s Draw Sherlock I chose a classical composer/piece that relates to each character and then used the sheet music to create paper cutout-like portraits. Which thinking about it, might have been the reverse of the prompt (fitting music to Sherlock rather than Sherlock to music). Oops. Still fun.

Sherlock: Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 in A minor

John: Brahms’ Horn Trio in E flat, Op. 40, III. Adagio mesto

Moriarty: Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, II. Stehe still!

Molly: Mozart’s Trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano in E flat, K. 498, III. Rondo

Mycroft: Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

Mrs. Hudson: Haydn’s Symphony No. 45 in F sharp minor, IV. Finale

There’s ~~a bit~~ a lot of explanation for why I chose each piece below. Also, notes on characters I didn’t do.

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carpdirector: staceythinx: Jennifer’s McCurdy’s porcelain...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:41:56 -0400

carpdirector:

staceythinx:

Jennifer’s McCurdy’s porcelain pottery looks almost as alive as its inspiration.

McCurdy on her work:

Emotion fills me when I see perfect forms in nature, from the cracked conch shell on the beach revealing its perfect spiral, to the milkweed pod burst in the field, its brilliant airborne seeds streaming into the sunlight. The ordered symmetry and asymmetry of nature’s forms reveal the growth of life, the movement of life.

Living on Martha’s Vineyard, island time, especially in the winter, seems to conform to nature’s cycles. As a potter, I strive to make my work reflect the balance of life around me. It is important that the patterns I see around me are integrated into my forms.

Such graceful elegance.