The awful daring of a moment’s surrender

Marcello Dudovich_Bitter Campari_1904

Pro surfer Sebastian Steudtner rode a wave over 115 feet tall at Nazare, Portugal.

oil on canvas, 1905 — source

Peter Paul Rubens

Metrô Rio de Janeiro.

this picture of a chip pan oil fire from the wikimedia cookbook is so strikingly sublime

German student with dueling scars. Also called “bragging scars,” dueling scars were popular among upper class German fencing students. They were seen as a “badge of honor” and sometimes even irritated to make them more extreme in appearance. (source)

1920s John and Joe Martel, famous sculptors in their workshop on rue Huyghens, Paris. from Art Deco Around the Globe, FB.

Cheddar caves: Stalagmite Pillars, n.d.

The sincere hug by Juan Carlos Verdial Soltura

First Contact by Richard Hescox

(via our heat is gospel: Image)

Artist: Hans Thoma 

by Travis Schlaht