Grønbekk

Torunn Grønbekk writes comics, paints and designs things. This is a personal blog. You can find more information on groenbekk.com. You should also read Passed.

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Herman. Oil on linen, 2019.

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Rachel from Blade Runner, oil on canvas.

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Oil on canvas, 60x60 cm.

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Boy pilot, oil on canvas.

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Painting WIP, Freyja. Oil on canvas.

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Portrait study.

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Painting WIP. Rachel from Blade Runner.

[historicaltimes]

A girl licks ice cream and plays with the tip of the guns bayonet to try and elicit a reaction from a royal guard in Sweden in 1970

via reddit

[gronbekk]

I made a comic about Sean Spicer and his methods.

[historicaltimes]

Little girl by the signpost at Bodö Airport, Norway, 1968

via reddit

[edgebug]

so when i was 7 or 8 i’d “write letters to hermione granger” and set them out on the piano in the living room every night with my stuffed toy owl and every morning i’d have a letter from hermione back, sitting at the foot of my bed, and hermione and i corresponded like that for months and i’d just like to thank my mom for writing out a “letter from hermione” for me every single night

[sure-to-lure-someone-bad-deacti]

That is the cutest thing I’ve ever read oh my god

[justastormie]

so when i was about the same age i got really into both ciphers and james madison (idk don’t ask) so i just randomly started writing these letters like i was james madison writing to my own spy ring, using all kinds of ciphers. constantly writing that WE MUST SWITCH CIPHERS THE BRITISH ARE ON TO US. and it wasn’t every night because the ciphers kept getting more complex, but it was about one every week for six months and my mother always responded. and she always found the letters, because i took to hiding them in increasingly more obscure locations because spies, obviously. 

i didn’t realize how much work this was until i snuck down late one night for a cookie. and saw my mother bent over my giant book of ciphers and muttering to the dog “is this another code or can she not spell?” (i could not and still can not spell) and i was a bit angry at first but i kept watching and she KEPT AT IT. checking everything in that book against my letter and i never felt so loved. my mom with a full time job sitting up to figure out my silly letters said just because i enjoyed the game. 

i got her this bio of james madison a few years ago for xmas with a simple number substitution cipher on the inside saying “In thanks for your dedicated years of service, your daughter and occasional President.” She still has it pride of place on her desk next to the obligatory kid pics

so yeah cute mom story for the day. 

[unicornempire]

These are some of the best secret mom stories I’ve ever read, omg.

[msflamingo]

Peter Freuchen and his second wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, in a photo taken by Irving Penn in 1947. Freuchen is a top candidate for the Most Interesting Man in the World. Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist. He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question.

[neil-gaiman]

Just when you start thinking you’ve had a Real Life, you read something like this and… nope. Not even started.

[bgsd-archive]

Start before you’re ready. Just start. #bgsdlist

Kelly Sue DeConnick, 15 January 2016, Bitches Get Shit Done (via bgsd-archive)

[russian-style]

Maria Bashkirtseva - The Umbrella, 1883

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[mwnslw]

I want this on a shirt

[cruelbby]

i want to get this on a shirt then wear it to school

[historicaltimes]

Members of the US 101st Airborne Division, 327th Glider Infantry pausing in the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Germany for some photographs for the folks back home, sometime before June 1945.

via reddit

[starwarsolo]

Adam Driver + Arts in the Armed Forces