Just because.
Just because.
This is a self-morphing image sequence that represents 500 years of female portraiture in (what the reptiles call) “Western Art.” The whole things is set to Bach and turns out to be — well, fucking hypnotizing. Lovely, in fact.
(via Reality Carnival)
. . . apparently, according to a newly discovered, fictional document, Nietzsche’s last words on his death bed can be translated from the German like so:
I’ll kick you in the crunch . . .
Enigmatic? Certainly.
True? Hardly.
Byzantium was once a city on the Bosporus
famous for talking fountains.
World War I made everything evaporate.
At the time, it was the saddest thing,
men limped around London and Berlin
with shards of it sticking out their movements.
Some came back with idiotic ditties
trapped in their hippocampus. Others
strolled around for hours in wet dresses,
fleeing at the lowest possible speeds.
This [...]
Apparently Dali did this creepy skull/crotch painting in an attempt to help win the “war on venereal disease” back in 1942. Unfortunately, he failed. Nevertheless, I find the image strangely arousing.
(via BoingBoing)
