The Backstage Wardrobe

Film, theatre, television and art. Reviews, videos, and sketches and quotes. All stashed in a wardrobe.

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#cat #morningsun #light

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People who can't draw: Drawing is fucking hard

People who don't try at all: Drawing is fucking hard

Teachers: Drawing is fucking hard

Beginning artists: Drawing is fucking hard

Pro artists: Drawing is fucking hard

Famous artists: Drawing is fucking hard

Extremely famous artists: Drawing is fucking hard

Long gone, passed away artists who went down in history: Drawing is fucking hard

People who are upset an artist won't draw for them for free: Drawing is easy!

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THE BOXTROLLS - Time Lapse End Credits

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The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words finds substance in the illustrations of John Holcroft. Since he began working 19 years ago, the UK-based artist has been creating pithy, visual satires that poke at society’s foibles.

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INVITATION - Artist on Tumblr

Nunzio Paci | on tumblr (b.1977, Italy) - In the Garden of Idne

Nunzio Paci, in the body of work conceived for the show In the Garden of Idne, recovers the myth of the Vegetable Man belonging to ancient Jewish Folklore. In this new series, the Italian artist continues to explore the theme of closeness to Nature, imagining a return to the beginning.

Some verses of The Book of Genesis, according to alternative interpretations, suggest that before our world, God had created 1.000 different worlds which were destroyed and then forgotten. Others indicate that God had made various attempts at making man.

Little record remains on these early attempts, but it is known in Jewish mythology that the first one was Idne or Adne Sadeh. Idne was described as a manlike creature who was regarded a plant rather than a man. As told by Louis Ginzberg in “The Legends of the Jews”, “His form is exactly that of a human being, but he is fastened to the ground by means of a navel-string, upon which his life depends. The cord once snapped, he dies”.

“In the Garden of Idne” is Paci’s attempt to evoke our lost bond with Mother Earth. But it is also a journey in a land of primitive experimentation, a garden laboratory where the artist analyses the origins of human life. (by Monica Zaghi)

Thanks to Nunzio and Oxholm Gallery for providing the published materials © All images courtesy of the artist

Nunzio Paci solo show - In the Garden of Idne Oxholm Gallery - 12.12.2014-11.01.2015 

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Winter evenings #winter #weather #sunset #rain #nofilter

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The year in satellite images: snapshots from DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 and WorldView-3 satellites captured erupting volcanoes, protests, melting glaciers, music festivals, and, most chillingly, wildfires—from 480 miles up, a landscape on fire looks more like it’s covered in blood.

For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.

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I don't think I'm the only one who is completely stressing out because of  uni/college work right now so here's a little reminder for all those tired, broken, stressed people out there just chasing their futures...

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Charis Tsevis

[darshanaheena]

Raise your hand if you’re straddling the line between crippling anxiety and not giving any fucks about anything

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#weather #earlymorning #morning #cold #colour #light

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A winter sunset

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What good we have earned, from all the bad we swam through. What joy we deserve.

Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

[dustofsleep]

I’d choose you. In a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.

(via glassbonespaperskin)