[a-willing-heart]

Last Light in the Forest (2018) by Michael Handt (1995-)

[2087]

John Divola

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Yan Lucas Migóne

[matthiasheiderich]

Futuro House by Matti Suuronen. Location: Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Photo: Matthias Heiderich

[madsthedanishdream]

One of my favourite behind the scenes from Hannibal (Season Three). Mads and all that blood 🔥

[phobic-human]

A protest during the Iranian Revolution. Tehran, Iran, 1979.

(Photograph: Maryam Zandi)

[garadinervi]

Alighiero Boetti, Alternando da uno a cento e viceversa, (woven fabric), 1993 [Ben Brown Fine Arts, London. © Alighiero Boetti]

[70sscifiart]

Interior illustration by Mark J. Ferrari for Sandy Petersen’s “Field Guide to Creatures of the Dreamlands,“ 1989

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Vibración de Granada (José Val del Omar, 1935)

[1five1two]

'Storm over Kitty Hawk'. Rob Evans. 1992. Oil on panel.

[clepsidra-so]

[detailedart]

1. Joan of Arc, 1865, by John Everett Millais.

2. Kate Bush in Joanni

[petermorwood]

At first I thought Kate Bush had obtained permission to wear the same armour as in the Millais painting (AFAIK it’s in the Victoria & Albert Museum) but closer inspection reveals the second image is just the Millais painting again, with Kate’s head P’shopped on and the lighting tweaked to help it blend in. It’s very well done.

(Hint: compare every shadow and highlight in the armour, and every fold and wrinkle in the skirt.)

I also found this version, which is just as clever in the way lighting and skin tone were adjusted to match the original.

I can think of several blockbusters which didn’t get this detail right on a Real Actor in front of a greenscreen setting, despite their megamillion dollar budgets…

The only problem (Uh-oh, here we go)…_

Peterlas! What do your nerd eyes see?

…is that the armour in both original paintings is the very distinctive Maximilian style from the early 1500s, which is about 100 years too late for Joan of Arc to have worn it.

Never mind. Despite the out-of-whack period detail, those paintings remain very impressive - especially the Millais; look how he caught the sheen on the steel - and of course there’s always Kate Bush…

[redtsundere-pngs]

cool af teapots <3

[historicalbookimages]

🍃 American medicinal plants New York, Boericke & Tafel, c1887.

[gael-garcia]

No Other Land (2024 🇵🇸), directed by Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor

[granstromjulius]

René Magritte

[clemensclemens]

«Es muy bella esa idea de que nosotros mismos creamos nuestras catástrofes personales y que son las fuerzas creativas de nuestro interior quienes las instrumentan. Todos tenemos necesidad de crear, y la tristeza es un acto creativo. La canción de amor es una canción triste, el sonido mismo de la pena. Todos hemos experimentado eso que los portugueses llaman saudade, que se traduce como un inexplicable sentimiento de nostalgia, un anhelo inefable y enigmático del alma. Ese es el sentimiento que habita en el reino de la imaginación y la inspiración, terreno de cultivo de la canción triste, pues la canción de amor es luz de Dios que se abre paso desde lo más profundo y estalla en nuestras heridas».

Nick Cave, “Sobre la canción de amor”, traducción de Jaime Arrambide.