memento mori
@tenposike
just a little scrapbook where i reblog posts on the topic of death and posts that celebrate life and history. no original content. content warning for death, possibly unreality and occaisonally outdated language
a prayer of gratitude
[ID: image of hebrew text detailing the bracha (jewish blessing) for seeing exceptionally strange-looking people or animals:
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יהֵוָהֵ, אֱלהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעולָם מְשַנֶּה הַבְּרִיּוֹת
Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, m’shaneh ha-briyot.
Blessed are You, HaShem* our G-d, Sovereign of the Universe, who makes creatures different.]
this is the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen
personally, i think we should stop having stupid corset discourse on this website and talk more about fashion from the ancient minoan civilization
they had it all figure out
capacity
I’m literally always saying this
some rare and gorgeous mugshots photos of Conrad Veidt as Cesare the Somnambulist in the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari which I sadly don't know the original source or context for
Kidd Gorgeous -Nightfish
just cos a friend hadn't seen it - here's marxist art critic john berger, discussing caravaggio with some school kids. it's really interesting both as an example of pedagogy and as illustrative of how gender can work in art and how kids can relate to that almost intuitively
this is from Ways of Seeing, which is a documentary he made on demystifying art and capitalist culture more broadly, it's all available for free on YouTube and i'd highly recommend you check it out. it's truly incredible to me that he managed to get something so genuinely radical and accessible shown on the bbc in 1972!
Adam and Eve, n.d.
Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth" (Genesis 1:27-28). - The Bible
This cat is so, so friendly and stoked to be there, though! Look at all the leaning and rubbing on people and things, the upright question mark tail; this is a very cuddly cat who wants attention, lmao. 💜
Anne Carson (2009)
Arthur S. Way (1898)
George Theodoridis (2010)
Ian C. Johnston (2010)
E.P. Coleridge (1910)
Theodore Alois Buckley (1892)
John Peck, Frank Nisetich (1995)
R. Potter (1906)
M. L. West (1987)
William Arrowsmith (1958)
Philip Vellacott (1972)
Michael Wodhull (1782)
Kenneth McLeish (1997)
David Kovacs (2002)
Andrew Wilson (1993)
Euripides - Original (408 BCE)
