Sword In My Hand

Eurasia, folklore and birds.
by Ivan Bilibin

by Ivan Bilibin


China. Street scene in Canton,c.1880
 from Verdeau

China. Street scene in Canton,c.1880

 from Verdeau

(Source: turnofthecentury)

(Source: deviantfemale, via wildloveway)

Folks: It’s time to evolve ideas. You know, evolution didn’t end with us growing thumbs. You do know that, right? Didn’t end there. We’re at the point, now, where we’re going to have to evolve ideas. The reason the world is so fucked up is we’re undergoing evolution. And the reason our institutions, our traditional religions, are all crumbling, is because they’re no longer relevant. They’re no longer relevant. So it’s time for us to create a new philosophy and perhaps even a new religion, you see. And that’s okay because that’s our right, because we are free children of God with minds who can imagine anything, and that’s kind of our role.

Bill Hicks (via riverbones)


André Kertész 1894-1985
Group of women in the street, Marburg, Austria, 12 July 1917

André Kertész 1894-1985

Group of women in the street, Marburg, Austria, 12 July 1917


Charles Augustin Lhermitte 1881-1945
 Street and Gothic cathedral, 1913

Charles Augustin Lhermitte 1881-1945

 Street and Gothic cathedral, 1913


liquidnight:Husband Lies Next To Dead Wife, Ambrotype, circa 1856

This husband has decorated his wife’s body with flowers. Then he lay down with her on her deathbed in order to be close to her for the last time, as they were recorded for posterity. Here the man acknowledges his wife is dead and simply stares lovingly at her.
From Sleeping Beauty II - Grief, Bereavement and the Family in Memorial Photography by Stanley B. Burns, M.D.

liquidnight:Husband Lies Next To Dead Wife, Ambrotype, circa 1856

This husband has decorated his wife’s body with flowers. Then he lay down with her on her deathbed in order to be close to her for the last time, as they were recorded for posterity. Here the man acknowledges his wife is dead and simply stares lovingly at her.

From Sleeping Beauty II - Grief, Bereavement and the Family in Memorial Photography by Stanley B. Burns, M.D.