for the beauty I see in my own wildly precious life
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Déja Vu: Footage from Queen Victoria’s 1897 Diamond Jubilee displays appalling lack of Corgis; makes up for it by being a film from 1897.
There has got to be a great story behind the filming IN 1897 of Queen Victoria’s jubileeeeeee. 1897
I just cleared out a bunch of space in my inventory to make room for more respect for John Green.
ronk:
I never run into any cool flash mobs.
In April 2012, Copenhagen Philharmonic (Sjællands Symfoniorkester) surprised the passengers in the Copenhagen Metro by playing Grieg’s Peer Gynt. The flash mob was created in collaboration with Radio Klassisk http://radioklassisk.dk/. All music was performed and recorded in the metro.
Tears in my eyes watching this. I might have died of happiness actually being in the train car!
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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
from James Joyces’s ”Araby”
Aëla Labbé - Untitled, Zïa
He saw her across a crowded shelf.
Her deckle-edge was seductively deep, her endpapers velvety. She was a first edition, probably autographed. Any man would want to write his name in a book like her.
She noticed him perusing her pages, and blushed. He had a hard…
24 gorgeous vintage magic lantern slides of Alice in Wonderland, based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations.
On a still night, when the moon waxes
like the rings of a growing tree,
love, alone like the moon,
grows like such aging rings,
filling my heart to aching.
—Yun dong-ju, 1939
Gasp! so gorgeous, in a different way than the original. I can’t look away.
Frida – stunning series by Austrian creative studio atelier olschinsky
FIRST DANCE, BRIDGET AND ANTONIO
It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is ‘the most extreme President in American history.’ Although when they say that, I think what they really mean is, ‘He’s black.’
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