Syntegrally

[soracities]

dedication in Babette Deutsch’s, Collected Poems

[thegetty]

[discardingimages]

Out and in

Book of hours, Flanders c. 1485

Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 469-470

[nemfrog]

Rising sun framed by leaves and branches. 1902. Cover detail.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Pictorial map endpapers for a biology textbook, with vegetation symbols and overlays of fauna. Everyday biology.  1946. 

[nemfrog]

The Pageant of the Stars. 1928. Endpapers.

[renato-crepaldi]

Crepaldi’s marbled paper #356 being pulled from the size surface. Blue Fantasy pattern marbled with tint, tone and shade of blue with metallic gold and metallic silver spots on top. Originally created few years ago for a project themed ‘The Little Prince’ and later incorporated in the portfolio.

[nemfrog]

Endpaper. 1807.

source

[yusefalahmad]

by Reza Abedini

[grrrenadine]

In the eye of a hurricane, there is quiet.

Reza Abedini-ish.

[cryinganddriving]

[chewypinkdough]

by an artist unknown to me 

[feral-ballad]

Shinkichi Takahashi, tr. by Edith Marcombe Shiffert & Yūki Sawa, from Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry; “The Ocean”

[syntegrism]

Drawings of Shkup/Skopje/Uskub - today’s capital of Macedonia fromthe pencil of Leopold Forstner

[meghli]

Some old man got so salty bc Arab youth love and listen to Nancy ajram and other pop singers instead of regurgitate Marxist slogans 24/7, he wrote a book titled “Nancy isn’t Karl Marx”

Pls if u understand Arabic read the book summary it’s the most haphazard incoherent sh*t I ever read im screaming

[balkanmuslims]

Isa Bey Mosque, Mitrovica, Kosovo 

[syntegrism]

Russian Mafia Tombstones by Denis Tarasov

In the 90s, capitalism exploded in Russia as well as the Russian mafia. Money became the new symbol of power in the ex-communist nation while people assembled huge sums of profit though illegal activity.

Disputes among different Mafia families caused jealousy and betrayal that created a deadly cocktail. And as you might know, mobsters rarely die of old age peacefully in their bed.

However, some mafia families chose to extend their legacy and memory after their death by ordering tombstones worthy of great national heroes. This majestic tombs depict engraved images of the person buried with their belongings.

The following pictures were presented by the Russian photographer Denis Tarasov at London’s Saatchi Gallery in an exhibition named Body Language. The exhibition looks at the political and social context and its relationship to physical body.