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Clouds and smoke from the California wildfires this past weekend.  The sun and water had this weird sort’ve moment amidst sunset.

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Max Nonnenbruch

“Flora” (Detail–1892)

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Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830)

Sword maker: C. Liger (French, Paris, recorded 1770–93)

Dated: hallmarked for 1785–86

Geography: Paris

Culture: French, Paris

Medium: steel, silver, gold

Measurements: sword L. 39 5/8 in. (100.6 cm); scabbard L. 33 ¼ in. (84.5 cm)

This sword is one of ten “elegant swords” awarded by the Continental Congress to various officers for meritorious action against the British during the American Revolution. Owing to lack of funds, the swords were not executed until 1785–86. They were made not by an American craftsman but by one of the finest fourbisseurs (sword retailers) in Paris.

The decoration, in part prescribed by Congress, includes the coat of arms of the United States on one side of the grip and an appropriate presentation inscription on the other. This example is inscribed “Congress to Col. Willett, Oct. 11, 1777.” These congressional swords are the first in a long tradition of specially designed presentation swords that would be awarded to America’s military leaders throughtout the next century.

Source: Copyright © 2015 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Cornelie Tollens

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Paul Outerbridge, Hand, Shell and Leg, 1938.

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No permanence is ours; we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds

Hermann Hesse, from “Lament,” The Glass Bead Game (Picador, 2002)

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Romance

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Patti Smith by Annie Leibovitz for Ann Demeulemeester

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Uchida, Mitsuhashi and Studio 80 - Romanisches Cafe, 1985 

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I want to be inside your darkest everything.

Frida Kahlo, from The Diary Of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait  (via eps-ilon)

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Ren Hang

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Paint it red

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Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.

Caitlyn Siehl (via eps-ilon)

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Anna Karina in Pierrot le Fou, directed by Jean-Luc Godard - 1965

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Bliss (image) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bliss is the name of the default computer wallpaper of Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system. It is an image of a rolling green hill and a blue sky with cumulus and cirrus clouds. The landscape depicted is in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Sonoma County, California, United States.

Former National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear, a resident of the nearby Napa Valley, took the photo on film with a medium-format camera while on his way to visit his girlfriend in 1996. While it was widely believed later that the image was digitally manipulated or even created with software such as Adobe Photoshop, O'Rear says it never was. He sold it to Corbis for use as a stock photo. Several years later, Microsoft engineers chose a digitized version of the image and licensed it from O'Rear.

Over the next decade it has been claimed to be the most viewed photograph in the world during that time.

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