October 2011
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So if knitting is a hipster thing but I started before it was cool does that mean I’m some kind of super hipster?
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knitting before class...
guy beside me: Are you an old soul or something?
me: I guess you could say that.
guy: I can only see you as an 80 year old woman right now.
me: ha. thanks...
guy: well now I have to ask you to make a sweater.
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Van Gogh's "Suicide" Revealed
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Vincent van Gogh, Wheatfield with Crows, 1890, oil on canvas. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
If you missed last night’s 60 Minutes special The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh, don’t worry, you can still watch it on the CBS website (click on the link above). The segment is based on a new biography about the artist, Van Gogh: The Life, by Pulitzer Prize winning authors Steven...
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What if, say, everyone on Tumblr donated 100... →
do it!
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“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who...
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~St. Francis of Assisi
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UCLA graduate talks about the value of her art... →
I love this. Studio art definitely gets the same sort of reaction from people but I did it because I wanted to learn not just to show off a diploma.
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National Breast Cancer Awareness Month &...
wtfarthistory:
My sister reminded me that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM), and one work of art always comes to mind when I think of breast cancer: Michelangelo’s Night in the New Sacristy in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence. Take a look at the image and then read more below.
Michelangelo, Night, 1526-1531, marble. New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence
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