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[artist-mcescher]

Encounter, 1944, M.C. Escher

[danskjavlarna]

From Carthage College’s 1925 yearbook.

Here’s a collection of vintage jester imagery.

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[hollowmaison]

yuzuru hanyu

[thedre4ming]

BAUHAUS band posters

[nemfrog]

Satan costume. Ameline, role de Satan, dans “La poule aux oeufs d’or.”  ca. 1848.

Gallica

[nevver]

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Eugene Soloviev

[ijustlikelyrics]

Of Mice & Men - The Storm

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[books0977]

The Etude Music Magazine. October 1930. A Gypsy Czardas.

Czardas is the national dance of Hungary. A courting dance for couples, it begins with a slow section (lassu), followed by an exhilarating fast section (friss). The individual dancers carry themselves proudly and improvise on a simple fundamental step, their feet snapping inward and outward, the couples whirling. The music, often played by a Gypsy orchestra, is in 2/4 or 4/4 time with compelling, syncopated rhythms. The czardas developed in the 19th century from an earlier folk dance, the magyar kör. 

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Evidently, manually manipulating photographs to decapitate people was a popular pastime before the age of Photoshop.

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Soldiers returning home on tube after the end of the Second World War, 1945 (Keystone/Getty Images)

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[love]

Clouds by straychi1d

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