♡♤Zyraxes♤♡

aut viam inventiam aut faciam

[willard-metcalf-paintings]

-Monet's Formal Garden-

[classicalcanvas]

Willard Metcalf (1858 - 1925)

[lisamarie-vee]

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

maybe no love is ever truly wasted

[foxeia]

Tara

[sapphicautistic]

In the 1980s in France, musicologists and archaeologists Iégor Reznikoff and Michel Dauvois used their voices to explore caves with notable Paleolithic wall paintings. By singing simple notes and whistling, they mapped their perceptions of the caves’ acoustics. They found that paintings were often located in places that were particularly resonant. Animal paintings were common in resonant chambers and in places along the walls that produced strong reverberation. As they crawled through narrow tunnels, they discovered painted red dots exactly located in the most resonant places. The entrances to these tunnels were also marked with paintings. Resonant recesses in walls were especially heavily ornamented.

In a 2017 study, a dozen acousticians, archaeologists, and musicians measured the sonic qualities of cave interiors in northern Spain. The team, led by acoustic scientist Bruno Fazenda, used speakers, computers, and microphone arrays to measure the behavior of precisely calibrated tones within the cave. The caves they studied contain wall art spanning much of the Paleolithic, dating from about forty thousand years to fifteen thousand years ago. The art includes handprints, abstract points and lines, and a bestiary of Paleolithic animals including birds, fish, horses, bovids, reindeer, bear, ibex, cetaceans, and humanlike figures. From hundreds of standardized measurements, the team found that painted red dots and lines, the oldest wall markings, are associated with parts of the cave where low frequencies resonate and sonic clarity is high due to modest reverberation. These would have been excellent places for speech and more complex forms of music, not muddied by excessive reverberation. Animal paintings and handprints were also likely to be in places where clarity is high and overall reverberation is low but with a good low-frequency response. These are the qualities that we seek now in modern performance spaces.

Sounds Wild and Broken, David George Haskell

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Given that we’ve also discovered the paintings themselves, if scored with straight lines, would appear to move when illuminated by flickering fire light, I assume we’re all thinking ‘paleolithic cinema’?

[biblioklept]

Elegant Woman in Library — Edouard Gelhay

[gustave-caillebotte-paintings]

-Yerres, Part of the South Façade of the Casin-

[john-singer-sargent-paintings]

-Perseus, Florence-

[moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon]

Apple White has actually never done anything wrong ever in her life you just don’t understand her like I do

[cabinetduo]

because it's one thing to just be in love with your roommate/best friend but imagine if one of you was destined to kill the other but she is actually totally into it and in fact, want you to kill her, she wants you to kill her so so bad but you absolutely refuse and go against fate itself to not kill her and she pounds and your chest with tears in her eyes crying "why do you have to love me? why can't you just let this play out how it's supposed to?" and as many times as you try to explain it she'll never understand all she can do is draw closer to you and force her way into your orbit until you collide with one another and destroy each other in a world killing/world making supernova

[wearestarslookingupatthesky]

Going feral over the tags rn

[art-the-f-up]

remember when this was all ladynoir was about?

[wearestarslookingupatthesky]

I miss those days yall

[unteriors]

Shawna Avenue, York, Pennsylvania.

[heylsgowt]

[detroitlib]

Close-up view of the cornice and frieze on the Main Library, Detroit Public Library. Newspaper article, from Detroit Free Press, June 11, 1955 on back: "Council closes book on library blasting." Article discusses the controversy regarding proper way to clean marble exterior of Main Library. Handwritten on back: "Main Library cleaning."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

interact if you have no idea what you’re doing in life but you’re doing it anyway. i need proof that i am not alone in this.

[alarmedwoman]

rape isn't about sex. it's about domination

that's why TRAs screech "CHOKE ON MY GIRLCOCK" when real women disagree with them.

honestly it's the most manly response I've ever seen. No woman would scream "SWALLOW MY PISS" when someone disagrees with her. Because that's simply not what we do.

but please. go off about why we should believe you are "real women".

[vinecine]