art

[hedonisticacademia-deactivated2]

library book return dates

[loukessler]

The Concept of Non-Photography:

Non-photography, theorized by François Laruelle, is about devorcing all context from a photgraph. There is no concept of a subject, photographer, composition, pretext, or context. It exsists in a void as a sort of non-thing, as if there was no sentient being able to percive and analize it. It exsist’s merely as an aeasthetic, but not even really as an aesthetic because that is a philosophy in itself.

He states that the photograph is not a picture of reality or even a copy or abstraction. It is a fiction that is “wholly real but in its own mode”- the fictional realm. The photograph is unique unto itself, an unlimited opening into the world occasioned by lights and shadows in time, but is in no way constrained by either the experiential universe or the theoretical and art historical preconditions set up for it.”

[ancientcharm]

The sacred corner in the House of Menander,  Pompeii.

Photo: Laura Noviello

[crazy-brazilian]

[mysterium-solis]

Sword Illustrations by Ma-Ko (2018-21)

[ultrafacts]

Onfim was a child who lived in Novgorod, Russia, in the 13th century. He left his notes and homework exercises scratched in soft birch bark (beresta) which was preserved in the clay soil of Novgorod. Onfim, who archaeologists believe was six or seven at the time, wrote in Old Novgorodian; besides letters and syllables, he drew battle scenes and drawings of himself, his family, and his teacher. [x]

Here is a picture of him as a knight stabbing someone.

(At least, he wrote his name next to the knight. Either it was supposed to be him or he was signing his masterpiece. Either way, still adorable.)

Several pictures of the original birch pieces can be found here:  [x]

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[lizawithazed]

“people have always been people”

[captainlordauditor]

i’ve seen similar ones from roman children living in what is now england, too. People have ALWAYS been people.

[brunhiddensmusings]

i love this so much, history with real people in it see also -archeologists at hadrians wall dig up a letter from a roman soldier to his family tanking them for sending him a new pair of underwear in the mail -norse runes scattered around constantanople and several cathedrals turn out to be viking graffiti, including “this is very high” over two stories up -the oldest known joke (egyptian) and the oldest known english joke are both lowbrow sex jokes -roman gladiators had equivalents to sponsorship deals, some murals found were basically ‘gladiator brad pitt rubs himself with capelli brand olive oil, try some today’ and action figures were also found of prominent fighters for chidlren to play with -flat stone fragments left at egyptian construction sites were used as post it notes by workers, some included variations of ‘the foreman is a jerkface’ and a crude drawing of the pharoh with a comically large donger -we have an embarrassing wealth of 4,000 year old receipts referring to one specific merchant being an ass. WE KNOW HIM BY NAME, he wasnt even a king or anything, Ea-nasir  will be known through history for being a dick about refunds

[robotsandfrippary]

I love how children, even in the 13th century, can never remember how many fingers someone has. 

[rabbittiddy]

Oh no Ea-Nasir strikes again.

[fourthage]

You left out the best part about the Ea-Nesir receipts!  From the original post about this historic jackass:

The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.

Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

[systlin]

Ea-nasir, the FUCKING LEGEND

[goddesshexerei]

Hey Tumblr, if you are still mad about the Library of Alexandria, Stop! You can SAVE one ancient library right now. The Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, Some nearly 2000 carbonized scrolls were discovered along with the villa in the 1700s. Over the past couple centuries the scrolls have been a major source of study and today we are finally reaching ways of reading their contents without destroying the scrolls in the process. Here’s the big news, just over a week ago a whole lost work of Seneca the elder, became unlost! Article here: http://www.romeandart.eu/en/art-news-historia-seneca.html  The villa itself is largely underground and was explored via tunneling and as such it’s full extent still hasn’t been made clear, and it has long been suspected that additional libraries could exist within the site, not to mention other as of yet undiscovered villas. However, Italy as with many European countries simply has so many archaeological sites and new things being found all the time and not enough money to go around. Additionally the Villa of the Papyri is threatened with constant flooding issues. Library aside Sites like Herculaneum and Pompeii and all Archaeological sites around the world tell us so much about ancient peoples and cultures where we don’t have their literature to call on.  So how can you save the last ancient library? Donate to various archaeological and conservation/preservation groups, or even volunteer! Here a just a couple links to get started:

World Monuments Fund: https://www.wmf.org/get-involved

Archaeological Institute of America: https://www.archaeological.org/giving

Friends of Herculaneum Society: http://www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/

Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project: http://www.pompeii-sustainable-preservation-project.org/  

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Booooost!

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

People do anything in the Fertile Crescent

[druidviolence-deactivated201810]

*domesticates a goat* lol *finds a horse* haha

[pochowek]

i dont want traditional burial i want to become a bog body

[pochowek]

this is threatening!!

[thoodleoo]

is he, you know…*mimes deifying my lover after his death and commissioning thousands of statues of him which would later be excavated by archaeologists all throughout the expanse of the roman empire* gay

[maniacwatchestheworld]

Assassination is a Young Man's Game

Sheet1 (Known) Instance,Date of Incident,President #,President,President Birthdate,President Age,Assassin,Success?,Individual?,Assassin Bir

So the other day, I made myself sad. Thinking about how young these people who try to kill the president are. And so I wanted to see just how big the age differences are! So I made a spreadsheet.

I blame Assassins (the musical) entirely for this.

[undercoverlesbian]

sapphics only have four moods:

1.) wnat wife

2.) complete fucking breakdown

3.) ???

4.) bread

[freelance-philosopher]

“Prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith, Economics, Peace, and Laughter

[rainreads-deactivated20250201]

“I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald

[acti-veg]

‘People often ask me what one thing I would recommend to restore relationship between land and people. My answer is almost always, “Plant a garden.” It’s good for the health of the earth and it’s good for the health of people. A garden is a nursery for nurturing connection, the soil for cultivation of practical reverence. And its power goes far beyond the garden gate — once you develop a relationship with a little patch of earth, it becomes a seed itself.’

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and The Teachings of Plants