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Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:18:24 -0400

npr: lookhigh: Faking It — Before Photoshop The term...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:07:35 -0400

lookhigh:

Faking It — Before Photoshop

The term “Photoshopping” has these days become synonymous with photo manipulation. But the practice is much older than the computer software — about as old as photography itself.

An exhibition now on display at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art is exploring just that: The collaging, cutting, pasting and coloring that preceded digital photography.

The exhibition raises questions about truth in photography. Is there such a thing? Even if you don’t physically alter the image, isn’t composition itself a form of manipulation?

“Sometimes a photograph can be posed because it excludes something,” film director Errol Morris once said. “Isn’t there always an elephant just outside the frame?” (The Picture Show : NPR)

Photo: Man in bottle, c. 1888 (J.C. Higgins and Son)

— tanya b.

the-hero-of-ages: misseveline: mediaite: Imagine A World...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:03:04 -0400

the-hero-of-ages:

misseveline:

mediaite:

Imagine A World Without Hate

so powerful

damn

Helen's suitors before the Oath of Tyndareus:

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:56:13 -0400

whatshouldwecallhomer:

WHEN YOU GET SWEATING FROM THE BRIDE AT A WEDDING DO THE CREEP

when i think about all the embarrassing facebook statuses i made freshman year

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:51:24 -0500

healthydoseofpoison:

SIGHT-READING IN AUDITIONS

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:36:27 -0500

fachyeahoperasingers:

fishingboatproceeds: There was kind of a “joke” about gay...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:30:51 -0500

fishingboatproceeds:

There was kind of a “joke” about gay people as well, so we almost have Bingo. And all in the first ten minutes!

Reading Greek aloud with meter and pitch accent

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:00:55 -0500

whatshouldwecallmeclassics:

(Thanks apparatacritica for the submission!)

How I picture Maenads

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:39:27 -0500

whatshouldwecallhomer:

achangingaltar:

whatshouldwecallhomer:

…ummm…Pretty legit, actually, considering this is Dionysus down here in some awesome ancient art…or something…

GUYS IT JUST GOT BETTER

Achilles and Patroclus for the first 15 books of the Iliad:

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:33:50 -0500

whatshouldwecallhomer:

Greek drama interlude: Electra in Euripides' Electra

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:33:22 -0500

whatshouldwecallhomer:

artificial-fire:

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:26:26 -0500

artificial-fire:

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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:25:03 -0500

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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:19:30 -0500

QUEER LIBIDO: The Real Significant Other: The Queer Politics of Singlehood

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:51:10 -0500

QUEER LIBIDO: The Real Significant Other: The Queer Politics of Singlehood:

“Mainstream culture associates being happy, being healthy, being compotent, being productive with being in a hegemonic relationship – anything else is stigmatized, demonized, Othered. What would it mean for us to reclaim this abject subject position? What would it mean for us to say, “Fuck you I am HAPPY being ‘Single’ (in the way that you narrowly define it) because I realize that I am connected to everything in the world!!!”

What a brilliant essay. Beautifully articulated and very engaging.

queerlibido:

Today is Valentines Day and you pretend that you don’t care about it (even though, at some level, you do). Today you will find yourself increasingly bitter. You will hate the couple engaged in intense titanic meets glacier PDA in front of you (a little more than yesterday, that is). You feel…

"It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s..."

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:54:46 -0500

“It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s 41,000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It’s taking a form of contempt for women – even a hatred for women – and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I’m special, I’m not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie.
…
The real meaning of “I’m not like the other girls” is, I think, “I’m not the media’s image of what girls should be.” Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we’re all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It’s a lie – a flat-out lie – and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.”

- “I’m not like the other girls”, Claudia Gray (via albinwonderland)

thebardisapoet: hominisaevum: After many weeks of...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:53:30 -0500

thebardisapoet:

hominisaevum:

After many weeks of anticipation, it is now officially safe to state that these are the remains of Richard III.

Richard Buckley (aptly named) announced that “beyond reasonable doubt the individual exhumed at Grey Friars on September 12th is indeed Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England”.

A detailed description of wounds found on the skeleton, as well as other interesting evidence can be found in The Guardian. The page is updated by the minutes, so stay tuned.

Not music related, but the history fanboy here is seriously geeking out at the moment.

katesmckinnon: and that’s why running a republican campaign is...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:50:27 -0500

katesmckinnon:

and that’s why running a republican campaign is so hard

Blog updates!

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:55:58 -0500

Thoughts on Beyonce’s Halftime Show

and

Comparing Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History to Lucretius’ concept of death.

http://clairemariedavidson.wordpress.com

Thanks for taking the time to read these!