Jean-Luc Godard snuggled up against Brigitte Bardot’s legs during the filming of Contempt, 1963
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Horace Vernet, Mezzeppa 1826
Mezzeppa was based on a play by Lord Byron, and tells the saga of a Ukranian man who falls in love with a married countess. Upon discovery of the illicit affair, the Ukranian man is punished for his adultery by being strapped naked to the back of a galloping horse.
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
— “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot (via aileefeber)
that corpse you planted last year in your garden,
has it begun to sprout? will it bloom this year?
or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
Weekend Words: Meat
Barent Fabritius, “The Slaughtered Pig” (1656), oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm (click to enlarge)…
i have such an appreciation for this after taking anatomy
Photos: Kyrgyz People Cling to Tradition in Forbidding Corner of Northern Afghanistan
Photographer Matthieu Paley spent more than a decade photographing the Afghan Kyrgyz people, who live in one of the world’s most remote and inhospitable areas.
Read the full story here
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Polish heart surgeon after 23 hours long heart transplantation. Surgery was successful. His assistant is sleeping on the floor (1987)
Sheet VIa Detail. From the Atlas of the Grand Canyon, 1882. Illustrations by Thomas Moran and William Henry Holmes. See more at the McCune Collection.
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You are, at once, both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
—Franz Kafka (via barbieandken)
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