Story Water

words and things

[nevver]

Back to school, Julian Germain

[pettyr]

“Even worse than the idea of Sansa needing this to motivate her into vengeance is the notion that the Theon character needed to watch her rape in order to snap out of whatever zombie/Reek fugue state he’s been walking around in. I’m afraid that is the show’s interpretation, based on where the camera lingered. But the last thing we needed was to have a powerful young woman brought low in order for a male character to find redemption. No thank you.”

-Vanity Fair

“Game of Thrones Absolutely Did Not Need to Go There with Sansa Stark”

[thetreasureseeker]

Why I don’t watch Game of Thrones. 

[andrewromano]

That Hockney rug. ➿

[smithsonianmag]

Photo of the Day: A Tree Dreaming

Photo by Christian Spencer; Strzelecki Desert, Australia

[pulitzercenter]

Behind Algeria’s Tattoos: A Portrait Series

A generation of women in the Aurés Mountains of Algeria are marked by tattoos on their faces. Some shapes are alike; others are completely unique to the woman or to the place where she was raised. Drawing from surroundings, from clans, from the wandering and tattoo-giving adasiya, the markings tell the story of who a woman is.

These women, many of them over 70, have witnessed French colonization, World War II, and the Algerian war of independence. They lived their youths in a struggling country but held fast to their own traditions. The tattoos have survived because the women themselves have survived, with their faces to tell their tales.

View the complete slideshow by Pulitzer Center student fellow Yasmin Bendaas here. 

[sizvideos]

100 Years of Beauty  - Korea

Video

[bloglikeanegyptian]

i am proud of this class doodle of many angry yelling egyptians because my notes were so neat i can even include them in this set 

[growhousegrow]

Pattern!  Color!  Kame Colour, by Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1995).

[andrewromano]

Who needs Palm Springs when you’ve got modernism like this? Maybe the most beautiful glaze I’ve ever seen. #Natzler #notmine

[growhousegrow]

Pattern!  Color!  Helen Ahpornsiri.

[coveteur]

[fashion-runways]

VALENTINO Pre-Fall 2015 — Galaxy details

[thetreasureseeker]

Oh my god I hope this concept filters down to off the rack clothes. This is amazing. 

[iamcaradelevingne]

😃☺️😉😍

[treasureseekertravels]

[thetreasureseeker]

I’M A GIF! A FRIDA KAHLO HOMAGE GIF! 

I had so much fun playing dress up (I had everything here just lying around in my closet, but I’ve never worn ‘em all together before). But pretty much all I see here are the bags under my eyes that suddenly disappear when the blue background comes up. 

Still, I’M A GIF!

[newyorker]

The cover of next week’s issue, by Ana Juan.

[arabicproblems]

When I tell people about my plans to move to the Middle East and they ask me if I speak any Arabic...

[thetreasureseeker]

Studied for the new job, went to hot yoga, candlelit bath, red wine, Toblerone, watching a show about classical musicians starring Gael Garcia Bernal. 

Now I am happily trying to sing all the arias I learned in voice lessons a million years ago. 

This is me happy.