damn this tea scalded me

We often see Ferri’s Lucifero posted here and at other blogs (the fifth image down). No idea why I hadn’t previously taken the time to look up more of this painter’s work. Gorgeous, one and all. But be they good or bad, why, we must wonder, are all of the angels’ wings dark?

— Stephen King, The Stand (via books-n-quotes)

Wild Strawberries (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman

mermaid 1996 (dir. aleksandr petrov)

Depicting a winged clown teasing a papier-mâché full moon with a beetle on a string. The clown nods his head and flutters his wings as he lowers the beetle in front of the moon’s nose, causing him to cross his eyes and stick out his tongue in confusion! – The moon was a popular motif for automata-makers at the end of the 19th century, but the “Clown sur la Lune” by Roullet and Decamps and the “Lune Fin de Siècle” by Vichy were the most famous examples of automata featuring the full moon as a human face. This iconic image may have been the inspiration for George Méliès’s silent film “Voyage dans la Lune” (1902), where the moon is depicted in the same way. 

8.5" sculpture of a Victorian ghost emerging from an antique mirror cast in resin. Link

René Vernor, Anything Is Possible (via books-n-quotes)

leslie jamison

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Tove Jansson: creator of Moominland, noted anti-fascist, lesbian icon. (photos from this lovely article)

A skeleton in the Capella Sansevero, an ancient Italian church which has been turned into a private museum of anatomical petrification. The skeleton was given an injection before death which somehow preserved all veins, arteries and capillaries. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via books-n-quotes)