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self-encouragement. not quite there yet.

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The Nightmare

In his painting The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli tapped into a region of art that had often been neglected and left unexplored by artists.  Interpretations of the painting’s content run the gamut, from a metaphor of sexual violence and rape to a representation of the artist’s longing for an unrequited love.  Still others have found the painting to represent the artist’s sublimated sexual interests being made manifest, in addition to some finding the title to be a pun: Night-Mare (as in a female horse), referring to the belief that women engaged in sex with the devil at night.  Yikes!

Whatever the case may be, Fuseli exhibited the painting in 1781 at the London Royal Academy and it was met with serious interest and speculation.  William Blake, a friend and fellow “Romantic" painter defended the painting’s "innocent and vulnerable madness and insanity and fury, and whatever paltry, cold-hearted critics cannot, because they dare not look upon…"  Spend some time looking closely at the painting and then read more below to see a later version.

[The painting is on view at the Detroit Institute of Art.  Follow them on Twitter @DIADetroit]

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781, oil on canvas.  Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

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Kittens with hearts

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Hiccup and Toothless

Request by: loquaciouslotus

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#what kind of movie does this to you at the beginning

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#we are the generation that grew up on angst and pain #that’s why we’re all insane

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I have never seen a comment on a post that is as true as this one.

[olgie13]

“This gorgeous Hälssen & Lyon calendar is made of brewable tea. Each day is made of fine pressed wafer thin tea leaves.” 

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#I think I have a tea boner

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/heavy breathing

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I have a mighty need

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Amazing.

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0.o

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365 days of tea<3

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Where do I purchase this fine product?

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it’s not like i hate smokers or heavy drinkers or illicit-drug-dependents or people who are over or underweight or people with partners and without friends or whatever

i just think addiction is unattractive

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Not really sure how being underweight (or overweight for that matter) has anything to do with addiction. For some it's an ongoing battle caused by physical ailments, and for others it's simply genetics.

I enjoy your posts and I admire your viewpoints on so many things, but I can't help but feel that this one's rather crass. Maybe you didn't mean to tie "attractiveness" to physical appearance together but that's just how I take it.

Just my two cents...

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frightening image of education today

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Photographer’s girlfriend leads him around the world

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Van Gogh’s Paintings Get Tilt-Shifted by Serena Malyon

Serena Malyon, a 3rd-year student at art school, took some of van Gogh’s most beautiful paintings and altered them in Photoshop to achieved this amazing tilt-shift effect.

[sixteensmallstepstohappiness]

my heart hurts for this

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Moving on

When you see the ones who once sent hard tremors through your sanity, made you yelp cheerily with euphoria and giddiness, and weep slowly with desire and longing - and surprisingly, your mind is just a white wall, the feelings are absent, your heart shrugs and stares blankly back at you. a smile and a quarter-hearted conversation usually follows, you turn your head, you think about tomorrow’s weather.

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I love everything this girl writes.

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by Dreamworks development artist Mike Yamada

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“Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, read by Benedict Cumberbatch. Part one of four. (The rest will follow shortly. You can also download this part here.)

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what music looks like

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this actually happened

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LOL YES