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Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:37:21 -0700

cavetocanvas: Frédéric Bazille, Woman in a Moorish Costume,...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:10:21 -0700

Frédéric Bazille, Woman in a Moorish Costume, 1869

From the Norton Simon Museum:

Born into a wealthy Protestant family, Jean-Frédéric Bazille became part of the Impressionist circle through his artistic achievements as well as his unofficial patronage. He painted alongside his close friend Claude Monet, to whom he often loaned money, and he was particularly drawn to Alfred Sisley and Édouard Manet, whose influence on the current painting is unmistakable. The studied arrangement of the scene—with the props carefully placed on the wall and at the model’s feet, amid the sparsely defined space of the artist’s studio—testifies to the construct of the “exotic” female in the Western male imagination. Bazille was a central figure in the Impressionist group during the 1860s, but his untimely death in the Franco-Prussian War prevented his association with the group, which was not publicly recognized until the first Impressionist exhibition, in 1874.

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:23:56 -0700

Leslie Knope tries impressions and accents

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:08:26 -0700

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Leslie Knope tries impressions and accents

stfuconservatives: lostinhistory: wholegrainlofat: contactjrabbit...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:52:10 -0700

thesherlockedgeekhero:

ajacquelineofalltrades:

menshevixen:

bananakarenina:

villa-kulla:

Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?

And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?

Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?

The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.

You know, I always did like Scarlett Johannson.

Dat side-eye.

Let me just hug you forever Miss Johannson.

PRAISE!

Haven’t even seen this movie yet, but damn. I’m just gonna have to, aren’t I?

Throwin’ shade!

THIS

Love that side-eye.

Her character had to go undercover to work for Tony Stark, and then she used her powers of manipulation to get information out of criminals and a demi-god. She watched her good friend get mind-controlled by Loki. HER CHARACTER HAS EMOTIONS AND STUFF.

-Jess

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:51:41 -0700

americancranberries: Donna Noble - favourite lines

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:32:37 -0700

americancranberries:

Donna Noble - favourite lines

dreamingofdownton: DOWNTON ABBEY/A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:26:45 -0700

dreamingofdownton:

DOWNTON ABBEY/A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE CROSSOVER

war is easier than daughters

Bras de Seine près de Giverny, brouillard, Claude Monet, 1897

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:15:00 -0700

Bras de Seine près de Giverny, brouillard, Claude Monet, 1897

bookreadingbookworm: GPOY of every teacher at this point in the...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:57:30 -0700

bookreadingbookworm:

GPOY of every teacher at this point in the school year.

Also, this episode was awesome, and I’m sad that it won’t be on again until September :(.

cavetocanvas: Your Body is a Battlefield - Barbara Kruger,...

Wed, 30 May 2012 22:03:42 -0700

cavetocanvas:

Your Body is a Battlefield - Barbara Kruger, 1990

“Leslie, everything you’ve accomplished, you have earned and...

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:46:16 -0700

“Leslie, everything you’ve accomplished, you have earned and you have worked for.”
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“You put your whole life on hold for me, the very least I can do is try to return the favor.”

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Wed, 23 May 2012 08:43:01 -0700

lillieleka: hehehehe

Wed, 23 May 2012 06:33:42 -0700

lillieleka:

hehehehe

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Wed, 23 May 2012 04:22:11 -0700

perfectlypreet: Tried out this nail design from Essie’s ‘A Cut...

Wed, 23 May 2012 02:11:01 -0700

perfectlypreet:

Tried out this nail design from Essie’s ‘A Cut Above’

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Tue, 22 May 2012 21:50:46 -0700

Opening the library, Beauty took a book, and read these words...

Tue, 22 May 2012 19:38:12 -0700

Opening the library, Beauty took a book, and read these words in letters of gold:

Welcome, Beauty. Banish fear.
You are queen and mistress here.
Speak your wishes, speak your will.
Swift obedience meets them still.

- Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont (Beauty and the Beast)