The Glory of the Unfathomable

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” -George Orwell

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Creepy Vintage Halloween Photographs

These wonderfully creepy images of Halloween’s past come from the book, Haunted Air. The book features dozens of anonymous vintage Halloween photos dating between 1875 and 1955. The photos in the book come from the personal collection of Ossian Brown, a British musician and artist. Even more surprising is that the book’s introduction was written by David Lynch. It’s a shame that people rarely wear homemade costumes anymore because they truly are much creepier than a packaged costume from Walmart. It’s time to break out an old sheet and start designing.

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Robert Capa, born Friedmann Endre Ernő on October 22, 1913 in Budapest, Hungary. Photographer. Most famous for his work covering the Spanish Civil War and WWII. KIA in 1954 while covering the First Indochina War. Also known for his relationship with fellow noted photographer Gerda Taro, who was KIA while covering the Spanish Civil War. 

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Cool. #theroom #man #sitting #creepy #scary #ilikeweirdshit #thegloryoftheunfathomable #psychotic #creepy #secrets #null #world #interesting

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

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Welcome to the new age.

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INFLUENCE OF THE DAY: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby—his most famous—and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.

The Great Gatsby has been the basis for numerous films of the same name, spanning nearly 90 years; 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and an upcoming 2013 adaptation. In 1958 his life from 1937 to 1940 was dramatized in Beloved Infidel.

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Brando GIF Collection - Reblog IF YOU SURVIVE THIS

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Voyager By Vladimir Kush

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What Is Real?

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Man Mocked by Two Women (Dos Mujeres y un hombre) By: Francisco Goya

This is one of Goya's famous..or infamous Black Paintings. The paintings were originally painted as murals on the walls of his house.

After the Napoleonic Wars and the internal turmoil of the changing Spanish government, Goya developed an embittered attitude towards mankind. He had a first-hand and acute awareness of panic, terror, fear and hysteria. He had survived two near-fatal illnesses, and grew increasingly anxious and impatient in fear of relapse. The combination of these factors is thought to have led to his production of the 14 works known collectively as the Black Paintings.

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Breakfast on the Lake by Vladimir Kush. 

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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell

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Shwedagon Pagoda during World War II, Myanmar.

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U Thant and President John F. Kennedy. The Burmese General Secretary of the United Nations and the President of the United States of America; my leader and yours.

Legends, countries and worlds unite in order to protect the world from utter destruction.

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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

Edison is the fourth most prolific inventor in history, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He is credited with numerous inventions that contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications. These included a stock ticker, a mechanical vote recorder, a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures.

His advanced work in these fields was an outgrowth of his early career as a telegraph operator. Edison developed a system of electric-power generation and distribution to homes, businesses, and factories – a crucial development in the modern industrialized world. His first power station was on Pearl Street in Manhattan, New York.

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He was a true innovator, a genius, a great man who's sheer hard work and discoveries were taken from him and used against him. But just like his assistant, the one and only Nikola Tesla. And it is because of these men, our entire planet runs on the system of power it does.

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"If your dreams are destroyed by that uncontrollable, inevitable and senseless force known as fate, what else can you do but look for new ones?"

the rueful words of a teenage girl who has been told "no" an innumerable amount of times in her life