Rothko moving Untitled,1954 (seen inverted), photograph by Henry Elkan. Picture from National Gallery of Art website.
“Alternately radiant and dark, Rothko’s art is distinguished by a rare degree of sustained concentration on pure pictorial properties such as color, surface, proportion, and scale, accompanied by the conviction that those elements could disclose the presence of a high philosophical truth. Visual elements such as luminosity, darkness, broad space, and the contrast of colors have been linked, by the artist himself as well as other commentators, to profound themes such as tragedy, ecstasy, and the sublime. Rothko, however, generally avoided explaining the content of his work, believing that the abstract image could directly represent the fundamental nature of “human drama.”“
-From National Gallery of Art website, Washington, DC
Bluish - Sondre Lerche covers Animal Collective
Jerry’s Records. One of the coolest places I’ve ever found….right here in Pittsburgh.
Okay okay.. Dianna Agron was at JERRY’S. I’m sad I wasn’t there and mostly I’m sad Jerry’s is so far away. Thanksgiving.
Pittsburgh.
Dianna Agron was in Pittsburgh?! Like a long time ago, but still, yayy.
1926
This shot from the movie The General is the most expensive shot in silent film history. It was filmed in a single take, that had to be perfect, with a real train and a ‘dummy’ engineer (notice the white arm hanging out the conductors window). Some of the locals who came to watch the filming, thought the dummy was a real person and screamed in horror; supposedly, one person even fainted.
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awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (Cuba, 1960)
Yes.
Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.
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This is beauuutiful.
Found in a kitchen frequented by our Daily Charts team. Those chaps really love their work.
Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, & of course, each other. If a girl dressed for a boy, they’d just walk around naked at all times.
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