Mon Graffito

X-Man (So Close, and Yet So Far)

2013, 23 cm 

Vermeer (1623-1675) was the last Dutch Golden Age Artist. After that, the Dutch Art entered a state of hibernation. A couple of migrant exceptions (van Gogh, Mondriaan) didnt manage to shift back the attention of the modern Dutch society towards the human value of Art. In the Netherlands Art is an item on the list of “must haves” because they say so. And it’d better match my couch and carpet.
The new King and Queen of the Netherlands threw the coronation party in the national museum. Oh, maybe they thought it was a restaurant… Sitting at the table with the Night Watch behind them, they could let everyone see that “we have the art, this is ours, pfff!”

justfannyaround:

inothernews:

“I spent the entire day the building collapsed on the scene, watching as injured garment workers were being rescued from the rubble. I remember the frightened eyes of relatives — I was exhausted both mentally and physically.

“Around 2 a.m., I found a couple embracing each other in the rubble. The lower parts of their bodies were buried under the concrete. The blood from the eyes of the man ran like a tear.

“When I saw the couple, I couldn’t believe it. I felt like I knew them — they felt very close to me. I looked at who they were in their last moments as they stood together and tried to save each other — to save their beloved lives.

“…This photo is haunting me all the time. If the people responsible don’t receive the highest level of punishment, we will see this type of tragedy again. There will be no relief from these horrific feelings. I’ve felt a tremendous pressure and pain over the past two weeks surrounded by dead bodies. As a witness to this cruelty, I feel the urge to share this pain with everyone. That’s why I want this photo to be seen.”

— Photographer TASLIMA AKHTER, on his photo of man and a woman discovered in a final embrace amidst the rubble of a fatal building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh.

(via Time Magazine)

“hauntingly beautiful”

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toinelikesart:

Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraïdari ( b.1899 - d.1998 (better known as Nelly’s) is one the most celebrated Greek photographers of all time, and during the interwar period became one of the world’s most celebrated female photographers. Her pictures of ancient Greek temples against sea and sky backgrounds, which were published by the first Greek ministries of tourism, shaped the first visual images of Greece in the Western mind.

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Borondo!

tamsalama:

eomira:

gifcraft:

Source: Aging Face Transformation

This is super cool

I love this because it is cool, and also because it furthers a point I love to make to people: old folks usually don’t feel like they’re old folks. They were just like you once.

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roat of Samarkand