Claude Monet’s “Misty Morning on the Seine in Blue.”

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windandwater:

Pink Indian Paintbrush

I had never seen this flower in pink before! I didn’t even know it could be pink! EXCITING

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gandalf1202:

James Jacques Joseph Tissot – Hide and Seek [c.1877] on Flickr.

In early 1874 Degas wrote, “Look here, my dear Tissot… you positively must exhibit at the Boulevard [in the first impressionist exhibition]… Exhibit. Be of your country and with your friends.” Degas and Tissot, who met as students during the late 1850s, stayed in close communication even after Tissot fled to London in 1871 to avoid punishment for activities in the abortive Commune. Arguing that the benefits of declaring his allegiance to French art outweighed the potential harm it might cause among Tissot’s London audience, Degas urged Tissot to show with the impressionists and thereby affirm his ties to France and more particularly to Degas and realism.

Although he chose not to accept the invitation, Tissot, like Degas, worked in a realist vein. Hide and Seek depicts a modern, opulently cluttered Victorian room, Tissot’s studio. After Kathleen Newton entered his home in about 1876, Tissot focused almost exclusively on intimate, anecdotal descriptions of the activities of the secluded suburban household, depicting an idyllic world tinged by a melancholy awareness of the illness that would lead to her death in 1882. The artist’s companion reads in a corner as her nieces and daughter amuse themselves. The artist injected an atmosphere of unease into this tranquil scene by comparing the three lively faces peering toward the infant in the foreground at the left with an ashen Japanese mask hanging near Mrs. Newton in the entry to the conservatory.

[National Gallery of Art, Washington – Oil on wood, 73.4 x 53.9 cm]

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foxmouth:

Sea, 2014 | by Niko Elvan

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dduane:

petermorwood:

copperbadge:

That one time Dorothy Sayers wrote Sherlock Holmes self-insert kidfic where her original character Peter Wimsey consults Sherlock Holmes over the affair of a missing kitten.

Click to embiggen image to get the full fanfic, or purchase the book it’s published in, Sayers On Holmes.

dduane – I think you’ll like this one!

I love Lord Peter just a shade less than Dorothy did. Which is saying something. :)

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crackedslate:

Our lovely friends at The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy are entering the final week of their crowdfunding campaign. If you love web series as much as we do, go make their second season a thing. #SaveNeverland

They’re at 60% with a week to go. If you like the show but have been on the fence, this would be a good time to fall off the fence. :-)

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just-breezy:

The low sun

by xoque

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foxfoxwolf:

likeafieldmouse:

Garmonique

that second photo. just that second one.

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fairy-wren:

(via 500px / Tree Swallow in the morning by David Allan)

Of the North American swallows, I think of barn swallows as the most beautiful in flight, but tree swallows as the most beautiful just sitting there.

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urbpan:

I can’t stand it, I know you planned it: The radio is in the hands of such a bunch of fools who want to anaesthetise the way that you feel.

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oneirograms:

In case you can’t tell I gave up on this one a long time ago and use it as a fuckit piece to add to when I feel shitty

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flutish:

niuniujiaojiao:

So AoJE didn’t get nominated for the Streamy’s!

Great! (note sarcasm)

I am sobbing with rage and frustration and awaiting the return of Kalamatea with the limit of emotion acceptable for professionalism.

Looking at the shows that did get nominated, my impression is that the Streamy’s are much more mainstream/big-star than you’d expect. None of the smaller, high quality (but low production) shows made it in there. Only Pemberley Digital stuff, and shows that are way more “professional” and Hollywood-esque. Which sucks, but I guess there can never be an award that truly encompasses the smaller works. We all know that AoJE is brilliant and excellent and deserves every award ever. I’m just not sure what award out there recognizes this as well…

We recognize it. We are the show’s award, just as it was (and is) ours.

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James and Lily – facial expressions 

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just-breezy:

Mountain Sunrise

by mherring

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sexpigeon:

Right there is where I got my first parking ticket. Was sitting outside of my car, my hand in a girl’s hair. Wanted badly for her to be my girlfriend and was readying some kind of move. Barely started kissing and bloop bloop, Officer Edmonton of the county parks department pulled up, accused us of being on drugs, cited me for blocking…something. Was unclear. She took this as a sign that our love was not meant to be. But soon enough we did properly date and we lasted a couple of years. Then we hurt each other as restless people do, and we didn’t speak for lots of years.

Last year, her husband painted a portrait of the dog my wife and I own. I really like this painting. It hangs prominently in our living room. There are very nice things about growing up, and hushed forgivenesses are one of them.

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darksilenceinsuburbia:

Piri Reis, 1465-1555

Book on Navigation, Late 17th century-early 18th century

Ink and pigments on laid European paper bound between boards covered with red leather with gold.

The Walters Art Museum

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windandwater:

Nymph Lake

All the lakes here had these ~magical names that made me want to visit every last one of them. This one was covered with gorgeous yellow water lilies and definitely deserved the name.

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unfuckyourhabitat:

Excuses are boring.

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