Purity Of Purpose

Hopefully a collection of the Eclectic Mostly safe for work- but then again~ if you are reading this-? You are not working.

[m1male2]

Take a look at the details of this winter landscape by the Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp (1585–1634).

(Video ©️Rijksmuseum)

[maureen2musings]

Cold enough to make some frozen bubbles!

aaronburden

[viralfrog]

[animentality]

[apologize-to-no-one]

[politicalsamurai]

[quasi-normalcy]

We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"

[thetursithan]

The lighting of the Olympic torch in Barcelona in 1992, very evocative...

[famouspainterwombat]

[ugly-val]

Lake Quinault, WA

[automaniac-x]

[blignick]

[muntzerism-diggerism]

[armthearmour]

A beautifully etched and fluted Close Helmet which belonged to Baron Wilhelm von Rogendorf,

Height: 11.8 in/30 cm

Width: 9.5 in/24 cm

Depth: 13.8 in/35 cm

Weight: 8.3 lbs/3.75 kg

Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1520-1535, housed at the Kunsthistorischesmuseum, Vienna.

[armthearmour]

A slender double-barrelled Wheellock Pistol,

OaL: 21.25 in/54 cm

Weight: 5.3 lbs/2.4 kg

Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1580, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[ninaandjames]

MGM Cinerama Dome Theatre 1965

[aboutoriginality]

[aboutoriginality]