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This is Rose Valland, one of the heroes of Nazi-Occupied France. An employee of the Louvre, she kept records of the art stolen by Nazi officers—what was taken, from where, and by whom. She was instrumental in the postwar return of countless stolen pieces, and one of the most decorated women in French history.
I’m pretty sure many of you aren’t aware of this movie, so here, let me give you a reason to keep your eyes peeled at your local arthouse theater this fall.
A Field in England follows a group of English Civil War soldiers in the 17th century who are captured by an alchemist and led into a vast mushroom field, where they fall victim to violent and nightmarish forces.
Yeah, I’m sorry, if you’re not immediately, desperately interested in seeing this, I’m not really sure what to do with you. It must be a sad life.
The trailer dropped this morning, and the film itself looks like the great-grandchild of The Wicker Man, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, and Valhalla Rising, all frenetic visions and men who have gotten way too big for their period-specific human britches. I anticipate the wrath of possibly-God striking down a blasphemer, and I can’t wait.
Bastille- Laura Palmer
“What a year and what a night
What terrifying final sights
Put out your beating heart”
Here at the Light Emporium we sell light.
Bottles of light.
Fluorescent lights and
streetlights and the light that falls
across the faces of your neighborhood buildings
at seven a.m. on a large march early spring
morning.
Purple and Green. Red and Black.
White lights — the ones you get when a car
is catapulting towards you at forty five miles
an hour. The near-death light. The DMT light.
All the ones that you can imagine — here: in little
glass vessels. Organized with the Dewey
Decimal System. 423 if you want to learn the language of
light. 700s to master the art of it. And 900: the history
of light, from the moment it was separated from
the darkness.
Buy them. Eat them. Stir them into your
morning coffee. Inject them straight into your
veins. Do you want to become the light? Here,
come to the Light Emporium. Where our sole
purpose is to give you everything
that takes away the dark corners that
keep you awake at night.
—“The Light Emporium,” Shinji Moon (via commovente)
I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means “earth apple.”
like what stupid frenchman saw this:
and said “zis petite légume looks like a, how you say, APPLE! hmmm… but it grows in ze earth… HON HON HON! MAIS OUI! C’EST UNE POMME DE TERRE!”
j’adore comment ananas se dit pineapple en anglais, ce qui veut littéralement dire “pomme de pin”, genre quel type anglais a vu ça:
et s’est dit : “ow cette étrange big fruit ressemble à une, how do you say, POMME! hmmm… mais plutôt une pomme qui pousse dans les pins… HU HU HU! OH YES, IT’S A PINEAPPLE!”
(z’avez vu, on peut le faire aussi… hon hon hon!)(via joouheika)
Details of Saint Catherine of Siena by Cristofano Allori
puelhathnofury replied to your photo: Loch Ness Monster Adventure Club shirt - Topaco…
wow emily someone literally made a shirt for you
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I have that shirt!
You have this shirt and you’re from Arizona, why aren’t we hanging out all the time.
