Medusa with the head of Perseus (details) Luciano Garbati.

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

THANK YOU

somebody please explain

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here

You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!

jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!

HANS OH MY GOD

anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit

No, I think you’re missing the real deal here

as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr

patricia-von-arundel‌:

SOMETHING

AND TERESA NEMMIN’S AND THE PUH-

AND THE FORCE…..IT

TERESA NEMMINS,,,,

if you have watched the netflix show dark and if you’re a non-german speaker please reblog this and put in the tags if you watched it in your language or in german with subtitles in your language, would be interesting to know

this is extra funny if you know that the show is in fact not scripted, for the kids anyway, so the 3 of them who were on the show were only told a basic outline of the scene so (most) of what they said was exactly what they thought of on the spot and the adults had no idea what was going to happen

From the Wikipedia page about the Fermi Paradox: Given the high scientific probability for alien existence, why can we find no evidence of their existence whatsoever?

A poem about loneliness

Owls are masters of disguise, blending seamlessly into their surroundings. 

#Hereditary #movie micro #review (at AMC Bellevue 12, 8125 Sawyer Brown Road, Nashville, TN)

i am home, i am home. now to climb.

Harry Potter Tribute Exhibition [x]

It’s the year 2030. They’re making a Harry Potter remake, not a modern adaptation but set in the original era. And it’s fucking indulgent in 90s nostalgia. Someone’s got a butterfly clip, Ron is wearing a choker, there’s muggles playing with pogs, Spice Girls is playing in the background. Voldemort is wearing a crop top.

It’s simultaneously the worst and fucking best thing you’ve ever seen.

hedwig is just a furby on a string

Bound 1996, dir. The Wachowski Sisters.

underrated 

A tiny journal-ish gif-comic from a few tweets I made last night!  I believed this kind of stuff until I was 14 or so, which is pretty old in retrospect…

There used to be more but I accidentally saved over it :/

I did manage to recover one other page, though!

(the end!)

Public service announcement from Lola the borzoi.

After all, Gale Weathers, you’re such a complex character.

her hair was the scariest thing about this movie

And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?

Donnie Darko (2001) - Dir: Richard Kelly