lost on the internet #1

This is why I detest trendy tumblr. That swamp of incredible (and not so) images, so rarely credited to their correct incredible sources, pasted up by/for 14 year old girls to define themselves by. Can anyone identify these?

Robin Schwartz

God Save the King

On a hunt today for more pictures of saucy high-grain showgirls, circus acrobats and pierrot/dance hall types, I found instead some dreamy photos of a Camberwell street party from 1937.

Find more here

teaching mixed media

Teaching Mixed Media to Children by Karla Cikánová, reblogged from here

teleidoscopes

this below is by alvin langdon coburn

tutorial here, here or here.

this one looks especially good and this one is more lofi.

GLASNOST

GLASNOST

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16 April - 26 June at Haunch of Venison

Oh man. I have got to go to this it looks so awesome.

I have also got to start painting again. And look at that print! (ps actually just seen it's mixed media on cardboard)

Chichicastenango, Guatemala

see here for list of top ten tombstones

Skulls in British Churchs and Churchyards

flickr group here

Beinhaus

Another Karner/Beinhaus/Charnel House/ossuary, this one with over 600 painted skulls.

Located in Halstatt, Austria, which makes the UNESCO world heritage list.

See here.

More to see here. Why isn't there an English wiki entry?

Here is a good list of global ossuaries, including

Chapel of Skulls, Czermna, Poland

Brno Ossuary, Brno, Czech Republic

and

Skull Tower of Niš, Serbia

Capuchin Catacombs, Palermo

like the wonderful ossuary at sedlec, an amazingly decorative Charnel House (bone house).

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T G Hamilton

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Another occult Terry Richardson shoot, this time a nod to Tarot.

Baptême en Diable

Terry Richardson for Vogue France, DECEMBER 2006/JANUARY 2007.