May202013

backofthebookshelf:

onlyhiddlesloversleftalive:

Tom Hiddleston and Mark Gatiss star in Coriolanus at the Donmar. [x x]

WHAT

GIMME!

Also, *happy dance* Two movies of my favorite shakespeare in less than five years!
7PM

jawhaw:

captainabs:

the-kiwi-avenger:

consulting-god-of-badassery:

incurablyspooky:

daemon-hearts:

A minute of silence for all the good books with bad movie adaptions.

A minute of silence for all the bad books that are getting movie adaptations.

A minute of silence for books with the movie adaptation on the front cover

A minute of silence for The Last Airbender

ten minutes of silence for The Last Airbender

Two hours of stunned horrified silence for The Last Airbender.

(Source: theboysofwinterfell, via backofthebookshelf)

6PM
danceswithlions: MYTHOLOGY: Cait Sidhe or Fairy Cat Cait Sidhe (pronounced caught shee) is a fairy creature from Celtic mythology said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its breast. It was said to haunt the Scottish Highlands. Some common folklore suggested that the Cait Sidhe was not a fairy, but a transformed witch. Some people believed that the Cat Sìth was a witch that could transform voluntarily into its cat form and back eight times. If one of these witches chose to go back into their cat form for the ninth time, they would remain a cat for the rest of their lives. It is believed by some that this is how the idea of a cat having nine lives originated.

danceswithlions:

MYTHOLOGY: Cait Sidhe or Fairy Cat

Cait Sidhe (pronounced caught shee) is a fairy creature from Celtic mythology said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its breast. It was said to haunt the Scottish Highlands. Some common folklore suggested that the Cait Sidhe was not a fairy, but a transformed witch. Some people believed that the Cat Sìth was a witch that could transform voluntarily into its cat form and back eight times. If one of these witches chose to go back into their cat form for the ninth time, they would remain a cat for the rest of their lives. It is believed by some that this is how the idea of a cat having nine lives originated.

(via fuckyeahstrangemythology)
12PM
hardlyhallowedground: ronbeckdesigns: Elevator door of Chrysler building beautiful

hardlyhallowedground:

ronbeckdesigns:

Elevator door of Chrysler building

beautiful

(via artdecoblog)
6AM

sydneyflapper:

girlwithhatbox:

sydneyflapper:

girlwithhatbox:

Folk-inspired fashions from the magazine “Искусство Одеваться” (The Art of Dressing), mid-late 1920s

Source

Interesting to see that the influence of Russian folk embroidery, which was at its height in Paris from the very late teens into about 1922 -3 due to the influx of White Russian émigrés, continued mid-late in Russian itself. These are beautiful examples - the 1920s geometric silouette really leant itself to being a canvas for this beautiful textile art.

If I am not mistaken, folk motives were made extremely popular in ’20s Soviet fashion by designer Nadezhda Lamanova (In fact, the designs on the top picture are hers, according to the source - I can’t make out the fuzzy text at the bottom, but it’s likely.) She is quite remarkable in that she stayed after the revolution (albeit at the price of a short imprisonment) and went from designing over-the-top fashions for the imperial court to designing fashions for the “new Soviet woman”, including dresses made from towels, shawls and such (although she also continued to design more lavish dresses during the ’20s for the few who could afford it).

Unfortunately, it is quite difficult to find her designs from that period, but, if anyone is interested, I’ve posted a few under this tag, including a few inspired by traditional costume (and others that show how amazingly versatile she was). Also, folk embroidery was used as an affordable way to embellish clothing, and far less offensive to socialist ethics than “bourgeois”/ “NEPman-ish” beadings, sequins, ostrich feathers, etc.

And did I mention that her combination of ultra-simple, modern designs and folk motives snatched up the Grand Prix at the 1925 Arts Decoratifs exhibition?

(I could ramble on about this forever…)

Re-reblogging for additional commentary and links :) Gorgeous work - I wonder how much is still extant?
May192013
isanyofthisforreal-ornot: mymindpalaceisatardis: OH MY GOSH THAT IS A TURTLE AND HE IS CRAWLING TOWARDS ME AND HE HAS BIG SHINY EYES SADFHASDKJFAHDSJFA HAVE I MENTIONED I LOVE THIS TURTLE I think this turtle can cause world peace

isanyofthisforreal-ornot:

mymindpalaceisatardis:

OH MY GOSH

THAT IS A TURTLE

AND HE IS CRAWLING TOWARDS ME

AND HE HAS BIG SHINY EYES

SADFHASDKJFAHDSJFA

HAVE I MENTIONED I LOVE THIS TURTLE

I think this turtle can cause world peace

(Source: thelegendaryunicorn, via language-escapes)

turtles cute 

6PM

whiskersonkittens:

Burlesque dancer Zorita walks her pet snake, 1937

(via artdecoblog)
12PM

(Source: sifu-kisu)

snails also snails are cute 

12PM
historyartandstuff: Josephine Baker (1906-1975), American-born French dancer, singer and actress. And of course, occasionally eccentric.  In this 1936 picture, she’s walking her pet cheetah.

historyartandstuff:

Josephine Baker (1906-1975), American-born French dancer, singer and actress. And of course, occasionally eccentric. 

In this 1936 picture, she’s walking her pet cheetah.

(via artdecoblog)

Josephine Baker 

6AM

(Source: iamabadcitizen, via fangirlasplosian)

wants 

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