mydarkenedeyes:

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) was a Victorian-era painter, notable for his moonlit scenes and landscapes.

3pinoytumblr: Unraveling the revolution For the 114th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Philippine Independence, the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO) prepared an interactive timeline on key events of the Philippine Revolution—spanning the years 1872 to 1907.

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Unraveling the revolution

For the 114th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Philippine Independence, the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO) prepared an interactive timeline on key events of the Philippine Revolution—spanning the years 1872 to 1907.

On June 12, 1898, Emilio Aguinaldo declared the independence of the Filipinos and the birth of the Philippine Republic “under the protection of the mighty and humane North American Union.”  This momentous event took place in Cavite el Viejo (“Old Cavite”, now Kawit), Cavite Province. Admiral Dewey had been invited but did not attend.  The Filipino national flag was officially unfurled for the first time at 4:20 PM. The same flag was actually unfurled, albeit unofficially, on May 28, 1898 at the Teatro Caviteño in Cavite Nuevo - now Cavite City - right after the battle of Alapan, Imus, Cavite, and again three days later over the Spanish barracks at Binakayan, Cavite, after the Filipinos scored another victory.

On June 12, 1898, Emilio Aguinaldo declared the independence of the Filipinos and the birth of the Philippine Republic “under the protection of the mighty and humane North American Union.” 

This momentous event took place in Cavite el Viejo (“Old Cavite”, now Kawit), Cavite Province. Admiral Dewey had been invited but did not attend. 

The Filipino national flag was officially unfurled for the first time at 4:20 PM. The same flag was actually unfurled, albeit unofficially, on May 28, 1898 at the Teatro Caviteño in Cavite Nuevo - now Cavite City - right after the battle of Alapan, Imus, Cavite, and again three days later over the Spanish barracks at Binakayan, Cavite, after the Filipinos scored another victory.

cjwho:

Gerhard Mayer

The Nuremberg-based artist Gerhard Mayer creates large scale wallpieces, using China ink and his own mathematical rules

vega-ofthe-lyre:

PORTRAITS BY BOLDINI

viα fuckyeahalternativefashion:  Alexander McQueen RTW FW 2013

"On hearing of a powerful love tremble and be moved
like an aesthete. But then, contented,
remember how many your imagination fashioned for you: those
first: and that the others—lesser—that in your life you’ve
experienced and enjoyed, those more real, and tangible.—
You were not deprived of loves like these."
C.P. Cavafy, “Hearing of Love,” trans. Daniel Mendelsohn (via bellswithin)

theparisreview:

André Kertész: On Reading

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Caspar David Friedrich

"An addict, if you don’t mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, voluntarily, from the world’s traffic and currency? The saint talks to flowers, a daffodil, say, and he sees the yellow of it. He receives its scent through his eyes. Yes, he thinks, you are my muse, I take heart from your stubbornness, a drop of water, a dab of sunshine, and there you are with your gorgeous bloom. He enjoys flowers but he worships trees. He wants to be the banyan’s slave. He wants to think of time the way a tree does, a decade as nothing more than some slight addition to his girth. He connives with birds, gets his daily news from the sound the wind makes in the leaves. When he’s hungry he stands in the forest waiting for the fall of a mango. His ambition is the opposite of ambition. Most of all, like all addicts, he wants to obliterate time. He wants to die, or, at the very least, not to live."
Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis