February 2012
33 posts
slings & arrows: Photography, film and digitally... →
Photography, film and digitally generated images came along, each apparently certain to make the slow process of painting in oils redundant. But that never happened. In the 21st century, Richter, Hockney and Freud still found they could best express their response to the physical world, or what…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-170241... →
hermionejg:
Some parents refuse to read Goldilocks to their kids because it features theft and Little Red Riding Hood because it features “abduction”. Ridiculous. I only point to something JKR said in an interview with Stephen Fry many many years ago:
“I feel very strongly that there is a move to sanitise literature because we’re trying to protect children, not from the grizzly ...
XLV Stella oft sees the very face of woe Painted in my beclouded stormy face, But cannot skill to pity my disgrace, Not though thereof the cause herself she know; Yet hearing late a fable, which did show Of lovers never known a grievous case, Pity thereof gat in her breast such place That, from that sea derived, tears’ spring did flow. Alas, if fancy,...
January 2012
108 posts
“I enjoy being indoors. I enjoy laying on couches, snacking, and reading...”
– - Adam Scott, on why he hates summer (via leahsnewblog)
this is my life
(via amypayme)
“Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career...”
– Maureen Johnson (via badasshufflepuff) (via jarfuls-of-wisdom)
