copperbadge:

wynjara:

september-before-a-rainfall:

Dramaturg for Gypsy: Mamaturg
Dramaturg researching Peruvian fauna: Llamaturg
Grammar dramaturg: Commaturg
Explosives dramaturg: Bombaturg
Dramaturg looking into high school dances: Promaturg
Presidential dramaturg: Obamaturg
Dramaturg who’s really into Love, Actually: RomComaturg
Dramaturg named Tom: Tomaturg
Dramaturg researching tomatoes: Tomaturg
Dramaturg named Tom who is researching tomatoes: Tomtomaturg
Dramaturg named Tom researching tomatoes and tom-toms: Tomatomatomtomaturg
Dramaturg named Jim: Jim the Dramaturg

Seems like the kind of post @copperbadge would enjoy.

This was definitely written by a dramaturg. :D

My favorite story of being a dramaturg is the one time I tried to be funny at a first-read. We were going around introducing ourselves and I said “Hi, I’m Sam and I’m the dramaturg, which means I’m here to judge all of you.” 

The room fell completely silent and every face, from the director to the cast to the designers, filled with terror. It was the most powerful reminder I will ever have or need that artists mostly do art so people will look at something other than them. 

Also, since nobody knows what a dramaturg really is or does you can mostly make it up as you go along and people will totally believe you. 

@despairoftranslators

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xshayarsha:

November, Alphonse Mucha.

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jaynaneeya:

The brilliant actor/producers behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party

I believe this is the only time in the show when just the four of them are in a shot together, but I could be wrong about that.

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urgurlblaise:

the-garden-of-delights:

“La Soirée” (detail) by Vittorio Reggianini (1858-1938).

A goddamn painting

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I was tagged by @teddybearofdeath. Thank you for feeding my vanity! :-)

Last movie you watched: Arrival. It is the bomb diggety. You should go see it. Everyone should go see it.

Last song you listened to: “Open Your Eyes” by School of Seven Bells. I’ve been listening to SVIIB pretty much nonstop for the last few weeks. I think it’s helping.

Last show you watched: The Crown (Netflix). I’m halfway through. It’s a love thing.

Last book you read: I’m currently in the middle of several. 1) The Truelove (US title; it apparently is Clarissa Oakes elsewhere), the 15th book in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. 2) Thunder Below! by Eugene Fluckey, a mostly true (one likes to think) account of his time in command of the USS Barb, a World War II submarine. 3) Life Traces of the Georgia Coast by icnhnologist Anthony J. Martin.

Last thing you ate: Two soft chicken tacos with pico de gallo salsa from The Spot. Yum.

If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be: There are so many cool places! Um, I’ll say at anchor in a snug cove in a sailboat I get to pick with rain drumming on the deck and no leaks at all around the cabin ports.

When would you time travel to: Any time at all? For reals? I’d probably want to see dinosaurs.

First thing you would do with lottery money: Hire an investment advisor.

Character you would hang with for a day: Precious Ramotswe.

Time right now: 17:22

I tag @ablator, @anonsally, @pariaritzia, and @shahrzadeonethousandonestories.

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This blog is probably the most up-to-date source on things I’m into. But since no one has time to scroll through the whole thing, I’ll do my best to summarize.

I enjoy nature, and learning about new things. I enjoy period drama and science fiction. I enjoy long walks that (lately) involve playing Pokemon Go. I enjoy sailing, including (sometimes) competitive sailing, though that’s something I do less these days than previously. I like working with others to make the communities we share the kinds of places people want to spend time in.

I got into watching Poe Party through @clavisa. I’d come to know her through the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a webseries we were both fans of. One evening (specifically, the evening of October 24, 2013, it turns out), she posted the following:

You guys, there are only nine (9) posts in the entire A Tell Tale Vlog tag, and three of them are by me.

I need people to fangirl with. 

Please watch it here (the eps are less than 2 minutes each) and then come geek out with me over the literary references and juxtaposition of historical/formal and modern/vernacular speech and also genderific can you tell me what time period her dress belongs to?

So because clavisa very much knows What Is What, I checked it out. I’ve never regretted it.

Note for Tumblr historians/archaeologists: It looks like clavisa’s earliest post tagged A Tell Tale Vlog was made 20 minutes earlier that same evening. In that post she linked to this video:

…and wrote:

So I just discovered A Tell Tale Vlog because it was recommended in the same Hypable article that recommended AoJE and I’ve only watched one episode so far but I think it’s is going to be hilarious. (Please go check it out so I have people to meta with? thanks)

So. Here we are. Thank you for asking, Santa. Stay warm and cozy in your snowy environs!

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just–space:

js

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“It’s important to stay vigilant about the other transgressions going on with Trump, but examining this Hamilton thing isn’t frivolous. This is the country’s future leaders coming from a place of such DEEP insecurity that they can’t handle MILD criticism in a public forum. The press and the president-elect are attempting to shut down a reaction WELL within the rights of those expressing displeasure. If you think this is an isolated incident? That it won’t continue to happen every time free speech is exercised to dissent? I beg to differ. We’re getting our first looks at the character of this administration in power. Let’s not look away… Historically, leaders who abuse power have been extremely insecure, have overreacted to small slights. It’s already starting. And as artists, our work is often considered frivolous, unnecessary, as such it’s often the first to go when the hammer of oppression falls. Theaters closed, books burned, art irreverently depicting those in power prohibited. We’ve seen these warning signs with every rise. Don’t criticize people’s worry just because it’s related to art and not money or policy. It matters. Art matters. The cast of Hamilton made a heartfelt, onstage plea, using their visibility, to a leader that’s supposed to represent ALL of us. To have that rebranded by the president elect and the press as harassment (which is a CRIME by the way) is censorship, plain and simple… Art is our voice. Art is our joy. Art is our resistance. All the most successful oppressors have understood this. Don’t give it up willingly.”

– Tehlor Kay Mejia (via beachdeath)

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“The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States. It will not be too strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue. And this will be thought no inconsiderable recommendation of the Constitution, by those who are able to estimate the share which the executive in every government must necessarily have in its good or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says: “For forms of government let fools contest That which is best administered is best,” yet we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration.”

– Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 68

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perlabionda:

L’arte sotto ogni sua forma, io li trovo semplicemente fantastici.

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“

On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree

what for
not the fruit

the tree that bears the fruit
is not the one that was planted

I want the tree that stands
in the earth for the first time

with the sun already
going down

and the water
touching its roots

in the earth full of the dead
and the clouds passing

one by one
over its leaves

”

– W.S. Merwin, “Place” (via icarus-suraki)

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amyadamses:

There are days that define your story beyond your life. Like the day they arrived.
Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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gornergrat:

Some trail aesthetic along the Bridger Foothills, i think i like it here

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anonsally:

I just found an unopened container of Greek yogurt in my fridge, with expiration date 10 August 2016. I thought I should probably throw it away, but I wanted to throw away the yogurt itself in the yard-waste-and-kitchen-scraps garbage bin and the container in the recycling bin.

So I opened it. 

And… it looks fine? no mold? and it smells fine? and… like… it tastes fine? Can I eat it? 

My wife and I often debate sell-by-date adherence. She’s a stickler. I’m more of a “look at it, smell it, think about what kind of thing it is” person. I think overall I’ve never been seriously sorry that I ate something she wouldn’t. But I’ve also been appreciative of having her stricter interpretation on hand, and there are many times when her being iffy about something has prevented me from eating it when I otherwise might have.

Yogurt is one where I’ve often tended to just eat it if it looks and smells okay. But I don’t actually know what I’m doing.

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The Cornfield, 1826, oil on canvas, 143 x 122 cm

Hampstead Heath looking towards Harrow, 1821-22, oil on paper land on canvas, 40 x 58.4 cm

Fen Lane, East Bergholt, c.1817, oil on canvas, 69.2 x 92.5 cm

Landscape with goatherd and goats, 1823, oil on canvas, 65 x 58.5 cm

Gillingham Mill, Dorset 1823-27, oil on canvas

The Grove, Hampstead, c.1821-22, oil on canvas, 35.6 x 30.2 cm

Harwich; The Low Lighthouse and Beacon Hill, c.1820, oil on canvas, 33 x 50.8 cm

Malvern Hall, Warwickshire, 1809, oil on canvas, 51.4 x 76.8 cm

The Dell at Helmingham Park, 1830, oil on canvas, 113.36 x 130.81 cm

insipit:

John Constable (1776–1837, England)

Landscapes 3

Constable was a Romantic painter, and along with Turner is considered the finest of all English

landscape
painters. Known principally for his depictions of Dedham Vale, the area
surrounding his home, which he invested with an intensity of affection. “I should paint my own places best”, he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, “painting is but another word for feeling”.

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“What I say to them is that people are complicated. Societies and cultures are really complicated … This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry. These are living organisms, and it’s messy. And your job as a citizen and as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and understanding. And you should anticipate that at any given moment there’s going to be flare-ups of bigotry that you may have to confront, or may be inside you and you have to vanquish. And it doesn’t stop. … You don’t get into a fetal position about it. You don’t start worrying about apocalypse. You say, O.K., where are the places where I can push to keep it moving forward.”

–

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freersackler:

James McNeill Whistler stayed in Pourville-sur-Mer, a former French fishing village, for several months in 1899, composing a number of works. He completed many of the paintings in September or October, after most vacationers would have returned home. Grey and Gold: High Tide at Pourville exudes the off-season melancholy Whistler described in an 1896 letter to his sister-in-law: “A seaside place after the season is like a theatre in the daytime—there is an uncanny sort of loneliness about it.”

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Source

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by Victor Lebed

by Victor Lebed

by Victor Lebed

floralls:

by  Victor Lebed

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cjforpresident:

for my poe party secret santa thing i needed to figure out when people died and stuff

• each x indicates that the character is in the episode
• each purple square indicates that the character died in that episode
• who’s alive at the end? ernest hemingway, charlotte bronte (incarcerated), oscar wilde, lenore (ghost), poe, eddie (incarcerated), anne bronte (incarcerated) 
• plus epilogue ghosts of hg and annabel lee

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