Edward Hopper - Interior Courtyard at 48 rue de Lille, Paris (1906)
(via chasingtailfeathers)
Last night at the old apartment
Tomorrow after work, I’m going to take a few things and leave.
Not melancholic, just tired.
No internet in the new place, they had the address wrong twice, so now they’re doing a new petition. Somebody at Orange company doesn’t know how to type.
It’s ok. I can live without internet.
:(
3 weeks ago on April 29, 2013 at 11:44pm
Banquet scene, fresco from Herculaneum, Pompeii style IV (50-79 AD).
This fresco from a house in Herculaneum contains something strange: The small woman on the left appears to have no legs. On closer look, we notice that a lever appears to be mounted within the right arm of the figure, moving in a slit up and down. Possibly a kind of club is attached to this lever, beating against the box held by the figure. There is also a slot at the bottom of the figure, part of something that looks like a drawer extruding from the figure. To the bottom right of the figure there is a straight line, which may indicate that it is standing in or mounted on a niche. Given the proportions, the slot at the bottom, the missing legs, and the lever, it seems natural to assume that this is a mechanical device, possibly a clock, and not a human being.
Courtesy & currently located at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Via Wiki Commons
Orleans France 1952
Photo: Elliott Erwitt
Rhyton (Drinking Vessel) in the Shape of a Donkey Head
c. 460 BC
Greek, Attica
This drinking cup could not have been set down without its contents spilling. It is fashioned after the head of a bridled donkey with a white muzzle, teeth, and ears. Like the naked satyr chasing a fleeing maenad on the vessel’s neck, the donkey belongs to the retinue of the wine god Dionysos. Douris, one of the great Athenian vase painters of first half of the fifth century B.C., decorated this amusing cup.
Source: The Art Institute of Chicago
(via chance-a-simple-gardener)
