Top 20 Sexiest Models 2008 (photos)
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Ashes and Snow (2005)
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This photos are from a movie-film called "Ashes and Snow". The author of the project, Gregory Colbert, aims to work at the same time with documentary and photography, with special techniques using light and different sources of photos. The movie is available for download at Foriegn Movies.
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Dracula, by Elizabeth Miller
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Miller´s website shows several references about myth, and reality, related with the Stoker´s book, and the history of "Vlad the Impaler".
"There was a Dracula in the 15th century: Vlad the Impaler. Stoker didn't know much about him (at least I don't think he did) but he came across his name in a book he was researching entitled AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPALITIES OF WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA (1820). This book has a very short section on a "Voivode Dracula" who fought against the Turks. What attracted Stoker to the name "Dracula" was a footnote by Wilkinson which stated that "Dracula in the Wallachian language means devil". Not quite accurate, but that is what Stoker saw and copied into his notes. He was originally going to call his vampire "Count Wampyr" but changed it to "Count Dracula." This change is clearly made in Stoker's own notes for DRACULA which are located at the Rosenbach Museum in philadelphia.
The real Dracula (about whom we know much more than Stoker ever did) was NOT a Count, nor was he a vampire (or ever associated with vampires). The two Draculas have become greatly confused in many people's minds."
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The real Dracula (about whom we know much more than Stoker ever did) was NOT a Count, nor was he a vampire (or ever associated with vampires). The two Draculas have become greatly confused in many people's minds."
World War I - 1914-1918 (War Photos)
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Collection of German shells which did not explode and soldier. (Rheims The Marne. France 1917).
Belgian troops carrying their FN Mauser Model 1889 rifles.
Frontline trenches. Group of French servicemen
World War I began in August 1914 and officially ended in June 1919. However, by that date many people around the world had already celebrated the declaration of peace on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918.
Two online archives contain several pictures and documents about the war. A Museum at New Zealand, and the World War One Color Photos.
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Machete
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Machete is an upcoming feature by Robert Rodriguez. It is an expansion of a fake trailer Rodriguez directed for the 2007 film Grindhouse. It will star Danny Trejo as the title character. Although originally announced to be released direct-to-DVD as an extra on the Planet Terror DVD, the film is now being produced as a theatrical release. [source]
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Around the world (some Flickr faves)
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Haruto Maeda - Quiet Life - The Village of South Africa (photography)
Maeda is a great japanese photographer. Another portfolio by him, here. Read more...The Transkai in South Africa is a desolate landscape which stretches as far as the eye can see. It is a different image of Africa than what you would expect. Many Xhosa people live in arid areas ( which they call home land) as a result of the Apartheid regime. During this time Native Africans were forced to live within a designated 13 percent of the country, the majority of which is arid. One Xhosa village in this homeland is “Cacadu”, located in a hilly district twelve hours by car from Johannesburg. In this area there is little rain. The land is dry and sterile. It is difficult to farm the land there, so most young people and fathers leave the village to find work. Cacadu’s population is about 1,200. The inhabitants are mostly old people, women and children. Here, the traditional lifestyle has become impossible. The villagers can only earn an income from work outside the village. This situation has not changed since the difficult Apartheid era. There are a lot of children who grow up not knowing their father’s face, another legacy left by Apartheid. The village has no modern technology, electricity or running water, so the river is indispensable. People in the village go to the river to draw water, which is about 30 minutes away by foot. Village women are accustomed to carrying the heavy buckets on their heads, and they go back home without spilling a drop of water. It is very hard work. The firewood for boiling water, invaluable for a cup of coffee or washing water, is also collected far from the village. Over the past 10 years, I have visited Cacadu many times and recorded on film the “Quiet Life” of the elderly and their grandchildren. I wanted to show the hardship of their daily lives in this environment.
Adriana Groisman (Photography)
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Although tango has come to represent the universal symbol of sensuality and style, its origins stretch back to the poor bordellos of Buenos Aires, to the smoky, dimly-lit ballrooms called milongas. Here, for over a hundred years, a race of night dwellers fueled by alcohol and cigarettes has continued to make its nightly descent into this erotically charged world where power and gender issues, fleeting relationships, alliances, rivalries, and jealousies are played out on the dance floor.
Adriana Groisman has spent over fifteen years photographing this intimate, underground world [source].
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Wanderlust (photography)
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There appears to be a direct relationship between my level of happiness and my distance from urban centres.
An amateur photographer, showing to the world what he see and saw.
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World´s most expensive art
'Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre' (commonly known as Le Moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and it sold for $78.1 million in 1990
'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I' by Gustav Klimt sold for $135 million in 2006
List of "The World´s most expensive art", according The Guardian
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Haruto Maeda (photography)
Read more...Traveling in Asia or Africa, my heart warmed to rural scenery, beautiful nature, and tolerance of people in these regions. My connection to these areas was strengthened by my recollection of my boyhood memories of the pastorial scenes of my native Japan etched in my memory. My memories of the sea, forest, waterfalls and rice fields resonated in monochrome. The existence of the rice field, the staff of life to the Japanese, has had a great effect on the scenery, culture and the sense of morality of the Japanese. However, due to unplanned development forced upon many rural areas of Japan, the beauty and history of over 2000 years of rice harvesting is decreasing every year. Fearing the loss in a few years, I hurriedly began to photograph these areas. The scenery is silent, but the power of the photograph can touch people’s mind and make them recognize the importance of the cultural icon of the rice field.
Edvard Munch´s Vampire (1894)
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Edvard Munch's 1894 masterpiece Vampire is to be sold after more than 70 years in the hands of a private collector.
Vampire, often seen as the sister of Munch's iconic painting The Scream, will be auctioned at Sotheby's, in New York, for an estimated $35m (£19m). It would smash the existing Munch record of $30.8m (£16.65m) set in May for Girls on a Bridge.
Vampire provoked controversy when it was first unveiled, stoking early-20th Century fears about women's liberation. It depicts a man and woman locked in an embrace and represents themes of love, sex and death.
(...) Simon Shaw, senior vice president and head of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Department in New York, said: "Few paintings pack as hard a punch as Munch's Vampire. "Like The Scream, it distils extraordinarily intense feelings into a simple, unforgettable motif. The lovers, locked in their dark embrace, evoke love's paradox as a source of tenderness and pain." [source: BBC]
Indeed, the first title of the Painting was "Love and Pain".
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Kevin Kelly - Photography and Pilgrimage
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Pilgrim, Gangotori (India) - The sources of the Ganges river are popular pilgrmage destinations. This lowland pilgrim is on his way to Gangotori, one of the sources, on a hike of several days into snow. His head is well wrapped, but the rest of his clothes are skimpy. Everything else he has in his in bag.
Kevin Kelly is a writer, and one of the founders of Wired Magazine. On his site, many subjects, like photos, films, documentary, writings, and others.
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The Tibet Album (photography)
Mt. Chomolhari, by Frederick Spencer Chapman (1907-1971)
"Two ladies wearing Lhasa dress", by Rabden Lepcha
"Tibetan boy with kite", by Spencer Chapman
Read more...The Tibet Album presents more than 6000 photographs spanning 30 years of Tibet's history (1920-1950). These extraordinary photographs are a unique record of people long gone and places changed beyond all recognition. They also document the ways that British visitors encountered Tibet and Tibetans.
Featuring photographs taken by Charles Bell, Arthur Hopkinson, Evan Nepean, Hugh Richardson, Frederick Spencer Chapman, Harry Staunton and the previously unidentified photographs of Rabden Lepcha.
Stéphane Pannemaker (engravings)
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Jeune dame mulâtreStephane Pannemaker was a member of a German family of engravers, who were known for producing wood engravings with hard, metallic lines and sharp contrast of lights and darks.
The pictures above are from a Gallica web page about a book with engravings of whole world, intitled Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peoples du Monde (1844). The sellectioned pics are about engravings made on Brazil and Latin America.
The pictures above are from a Gallica web page about a book with engravings of whole world, intitled Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peoples du Monde (1844). The sellectioned pics are about engravings made on Brazil and Latin America.
Yoshiyuki Iwase (Photography)
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Iwase is a famous japanese photographer, specially on the theme "ama" (womans that works on sea, diving and harvesting sea products).
They carried the joys and sorrows of those living with the sea... i immersed myself in their world
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