Eclectic Storm

@eclcticstorm

Over the years I have worked on historical costumes, taught jewellery making and dabbled in many artistic hobbies. In trying to find the ultimate creative activity I have come to the conclusion that there isn't one. So I am happy to be eclectically inspired to create at random.

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Rare photo at Stonehenge, staff moving clocks ahead one hour.

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Rare photo at Stonehenge, staff moving clocks ahead one hour.

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Ballerina Aesha Ash is wandering around inner city Rochester in a tutu to change stereotypes about women of color and inspire young kids. For most of her career at the New York City Ballet she was the only African-American ballerina. Aesha retired from ballet in 2008 and started the Swan Dreams Project, a project that encourages African-American girls to become ballet dancers.

She’s determined to use her dance background to change the stereotypes and misconceptions that people—including black people—have about women of color. “I want to show it’s okay to embrace our softer side, and let the world know we’re multidimensional,” says Ash.

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Nasturtium by Lynnette miller

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LADY SARAH | THE BLACK VICTORIANS | 1862 Vintage hand-colorized photograph of Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies. She was orphaned in 1848, when her parents were killed in a slave-hunting war. She was around five years old. In 1850, Sarah was taken to England and presented to Queen Victoria as a “gift” from the King of Dahomey. She became the queen’s goddaughter and a celebrity known for her extraordinary intelligence.

Black History Album: The Way We Were. 100 Years of African American Vintage Photography from the end of slavery in the 1860′s to the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and beyond. Pinterest | Tumblr | Twitter | Facebook.

medievalpoc

I’ve posted on Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies for previous 1800s Weeks, but I’ve never seen a colorized photograph of her! Thank you so much for posting it, @blackhistoryalbum!!

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thebelfry

this encounter seems very intimate and magical, like a moment in a dream

blanket-shine

Omg

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THE DOCTOR AND CLARA ROCK OUT AT THE BEATLES’ ABBEY ROAD CROSSING

The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) make a guest appearance at the iconic Abbey Road crossing, London, as they rock out in style this morning (Saturday 19 September), accompanied by the extra-terrestrial Daleks.

Doctor Who returns TODAY. (x)

Large spider in the shed.

Photo. Adrianna Miller

#Spider shed garden wood arachnid #web autumn

greelin

and here’s a dress from 1928 designed by the boué sisters

roachpatrol

give me this dress and i will wear nothing else for my whole life

damiandominodavis

Biologists would have you call this thing an Armadillo-Girdled Lizard, Cordylus cataphractus, but I won’t be fooled. This is clearly a baby dragon. They also have this adorable habit of biting their own tails for no discernible reason. Which is adorable until you remember what the ouroboros is, and inevitably conclude that these things are also dark magic.

Magical dragons. It all makes sense.