Behind the Mirrors We Look Through

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul"

[the1920sinpictures]

1920s Josephine Baker en pointe. From Pinterest.

[fairycosmos]

the issue with growing up in the 2000s and 2010s was like there was this really big push toward "accepting your weirdness" overall but they meant like idk wearing mismatched socks or something not being tangibly beyond the norm in any way shape or form

[allikatn-deactivated20180525]

rip iphone 5

(fun fact: this was shot on 16mm film)

[allikatn-deactivated20180525]

a reminder that I handed this in for marks in art school

it was worth 30% of my grade

[allikatn-deactivated20180525]

update: i ended up getting an A on it and I’m not sure how that’s possible

[dcminions]

SPICE WORLD (1997)

[slutatron-3000]

snoopy in the reverse bear trap <3

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[spirit-of-art]

Gabriel Schachinger (1850–1912), The Forget-me-not (Das Vergissmeinnicht), 1886

[katswenski]

[thebisexualbooknerd]

I’ve seen this a million times and every time I forget what’s coming

[countess--olenska]

A Reville Ltd of Paris couture court dress and train, circa 1928, labelled Reville Ltd, and with inscribed ribbon label 'Lady Holcroft', the extensively beaded flapper-style dress in black and white seed beads with clear droplet beads, the bodice and waist defined by rhinestone studded bands, the matching train in dramatic black and white with foliate bands, edged in black velvet, together with court presentation plumes and veils and an ostrich feather fan.

This dress was worn by Lady Annie Holcroft at the Presentation Court of 9th May 1928.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Somewhere in the 15th-century Brandenburg, a student dropped his homework down the toilet.

You scratched your Latin exercises into the wax with a stylus, smoothed it over, and started again the next day. Cheap, reusable, and easy to lose.

This particular set ended up at the bottom of a latrine shaft in the town of Wittenberg, in a privy attached to a Franciscan monastery.

For six hundred years, they sat there in the muck.

When archaeologists excavated the site, they expected the usual. What they pulled out instead was a stack of wax tablets in remarkable condition. The very thing that should have rotted them away, the wet, oxygen-poor sludge of a medieval toilet, had sealed them off from the air and preserved both the wood and the wax.

The writing was still legible.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/800-year-old-notebook-and-fancy-silk-toilet-paper-discovered-in-medieval-latrine-in-germany

[behind-closed-mirrors]

"Scheiße!" -the student, probably

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[allgarbo]

Greta Garbo on the set of A Woman of Affairs c. 1928 (image credit: Scott_Reisfield, reddit/facebook)

[the1920sinpictures]

1920s Swimming pool, Vienna, Austria. From Art Deco and Art Nouveau, FB.

[its-emimi]

Happy Pride month! 🌈

[catchymemes]

everyone: happy pride month 🌈

my brain at 12:00 am on june 1st:

[saulwexler]

Hey did you draw that evil feminist caricature to warn men how their wives would act once they got the right to vote? Illustrator: sure did boss. real sexy, just like you asked.

[lostinhistory]

Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped

He's such a little guy!

[castalianspring]

Sadly, it's nowhere near that vivid of a blue in real life (not everything needs a filter!!), but it's still VERY cool and cute.

More pics at the Charles Darwin Foundation site (of the preserved specimen, mind)