Giorno: 10 ottobre 2014

prokopetz:

sarahtypeswords:

wetorturedsomefolks:

memejacker:

several-talking-corpses:

memejacker:

caligula had anime eyes

wait romans painted their marble sculptures

it looks like a cheap theme park ride mascot

yep

here’s a statue of Augustus

and here’s a reproduction of the statue with the colors restored 

i honestly think that what we consider the height of sculpture in all of Western civilization being essentially the leftover templates of gaudy pieces of theme park shit to be evidence of the potential merit of found art

“I tried coloring it and then I ruined it”

And you know what the funniest part is? The paint didn’t just wear off over time. A bunch of asshole British historians back in the Victorian era actually went around scrubbing the remaining paint off of Greek and Roman statues – often destroying the fine details of the carving in the process – because the bright colours didn’t fit the dignified image they wished to present of the the cultures they claimed to be heirs to. This process also removed visible evidence of the fact that at least some of the statues thus stripped of paint had originally depicted non-white individuals.

Whenever you look at a Roman statue with a bare marble face, you’re looking at the face of imperialist historical revisionism.

(The missing noses on a lot of Egyptian statues are a similar deal. It’s not that the ancient Egyptians made statues with strangely fragile noses. Many Victorian archaeologists had a habit of chipping the noses off of the statues they brought back, then claiming that they’d found them that way – because with the noses intact, it was too obvious that the statues were meant to depict individuals of black African descent.)

sovietcigarettesandstuff:

musicadigitale:

L’Orchestra Sinfonica di Barcellona ringrazia il suo pubblico con un regalo unico

Erano stati invitati per un’intervista sul loro amore per la musica, in occasione dei 70 anni dell’Orchestra Sinfonica di Barcellona, e alcuni abbonati hanno accettato di rispondere a qualche domanda.

Quello che non potevano prevedere era che, anche se il compleanno era dell’Orchestra, il regalo sarebbe stato per loro.

Due cose da fare prima di vedere questo video:

  • Abilitare i sottotitoli, se non si avviano in automatico
  • Preparare i fazzoletti

Le grandi orchestre non sono nuove alle campagne virali: l’Orchestra Filarmonica di Berlino ne aveva organizzata una bellissima con le foto degli strumenti orchestrali visti dall’interno.

Ma qui siamo a un livello successivo, direi.

Buona visione.

(Bruschette nell’occhio, porcaputtana).

Con tanto aglio. Son venuti gli occhi lucidi pure a me.

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