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"In other words, after some time the surface you work on (or the colors), get muddy, worn out, lifeless, tired, dead… This appears to be a source of unavoidable annoyance to many artists who use the traditional means. Therefore it is advisable to make as less mistakes as possible during the process of painting (unless your style depend on taking the “advantage” of mistakes, which is also possible, only this requires a higher level of skill and insight)."

— Petar Meseldžija

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January 14, 2012
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Black Holes

Cosmic sink-holes or Black Holes are a region of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that marks the point of no return. It is called “black” because it absorbs all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics. Quantum mechanics predicts that black holes emit radiation like a black body with a finite temperature. This temperature is inversely proportional to the mass of the black hole, making it difficult to observe this radiation for black holes of stellar mass or greater.

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November 28, 2011
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fripperiesandfobs: Costume designed by Walter Plunkett for Arlene Dahl in The Outsiders (1950). From Profiles in History

fripperiesandfobs:

Costume designed by Walter Plunkett for Arlene Dahl in The Outsiders (1950).

From Profiles in History

November 28, 2011
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zeroing: via

zeroing:

via

November 25, 2011
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tea-and-blackfigs: Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is a classic enfant terrible of the Euro art world. From rings made out of a distorted Christ on the cross, to earrings of interlinked hip-bones… there’s few envelopes he’s not lining up to push. However, there is nothing controversial about this piece of his work. It’s just plain old beautiful. Delvoye has taken a bunch of used truck, car and tractor tyres and carved intricate patterns across them….so friggin’ cool I think. If only he did Vespa tyres…. That’d be the Loved-one’s Christmas present sorted…  Check out Delvoye’s pretty amazing interactive website… but vegetarians should shy away from the ‘Tattooed Stuffed Pigs’ section…

tea-and-blackfigs:

Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is a classic enfant terrible of the Euro art world. From rings made out of a distorted Christ on the cross, to earrings of interlinked hip-bones… there’s few envelopes he’s not lining up to push.

However, there is nothing controversial about this piece of his work. It’s just plain old beautiful. Delvoye has taken a bunch of used truck, car and tractor tyres and carved intricate patterns across them….so friggin’ cool I think.

If only he did Vespa tyres…. That’d be the Loved-one’s Christmas present sorted… 

Check out Delvoye’s pretty amazing interactive website… but vegetarians should shy away from the ‘Tattooed Stuffed Pigs’ section…

November 25, 2011
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fripperiesandfobs: Mrs. Cecil Wade 1896 John Singer Sargent

fripperiesandfobs:

Mrs. Cecil Wade

1896

John Singer Sargent

November 23, 2011
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