Madonna Pieces by Loren Stump (photo credit: Corning Museum of Glass)
Murrine is an Italian term for patterns or pictures made in glass cane (long rods of glass) that are revealed when cut in cross-sections (like a loaf of bread). Continue reading
Walker Evans, 1936. Donated by Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation 1999
Back in the 1930’s, William Lyon Phelps of Yale found the following sentence gleaming out of the pages of a freshman essay: “The girl tumbled down the stairs and lay prostitute at the bottom.” In the margin of the paper, Professor Phelps commented: “My dear sir, you must learn to distinguish between a fallen woman and one who has merely slipped.”
Sandro Giordoan
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I came upon this door on another blogger’s page when doing research for my Art Nouveau tile post last week, and it got me thinking about doors. I’ve taken a lot of pictures of doors during our travels over the years, and I’ve found some wonderful ones on the internet as well. So today’s post is just beautiful pictures of doors, attributed to, at the very least, the blogger who stole it before me.
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Is it weird that it never occurred to me there might be female Storm Troopers? MissionThread
et·som·ni·a (/etˈsämnēə/), noun, 1. a sleep disorder caused by obsessive Etsy browsing. 2. the surprising arrival of weird handmade merchandise ordered in one’s sleep.
Linden Wolbert
Image and video created by future defendant* Simon Chong (*I’m assuming)
Because he thought of it first. Continue reading
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A few days ago in my post The R-Word, I wrote on how I feel about the Washington Redskins’ name and logo. Today, something wonderful happened! Continue reading
You know you want it.
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Happy Father’s Day, lovelies! In honor of all the dads out there, today’s post is about something very butch. (Well, very butch for me anyway.) Continue reading
What is it about cows? Continue reading
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“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.” ― Naomi Wolf
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