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This dog was documented chasing a 'Kakao Maps' street view camera around a small South Korean island, it is featured in more than 1000 images of the island.

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chessboard ring made out of silver, ebony, and fossil ivory, crafted by joe turner

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SONY: Japanese Exclusive ‘Pingu’ PS1 Controllers (1999)

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there she goes

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Lacemakers (Brittany, France), 1920.

via Anartist

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• Woman's Bodices.

Date: ca. 1904-1905

Place of origin: United States

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by arica_aki

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curious... what are your favorite books, movies, or shows?

hi there! here are some of my favourite stories —books: yami-hara, lonely castle in the mirror, when marnie was there, 84 charing cross road, underland, piranesi, h is for hawk, guyabano holiday —writings of: jorge luis borges, tove jansson, pg wodehouse, tomas transtromer, edward gorey —movies/shows: the fall, grand budapest hotel, hannibal, midnight diner, mononoke, mushishi, billy elliot, the house, phantom thread, from up on poppy hill, song of the sea, the night is short walk on girl, spirited away i hope that some of these stories can resonate with you if you check them out :-) & if anyone has recommendations i'd love to hear about them too!! about to go on library holds spree

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Marcin Gorsky

Beijing, CHINA, 2012

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Chess of the Wind (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976)

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hold on sorry you're telling me the name of the boat was "the terror"?? i always assumed that was a retroactive name! did they WANT things to go horrifically awry???

obsessed with the implication that nominative determinism could have saved them

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15th century Timurid Qur'an copied on Chinese paper from the Ming Dynasty.

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“‘What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and time again? An instant of pain perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time like a blurred photograph, like an insect trapped in amber.’”

— Guillermo Del Toro, The Devil’s Backbone

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Frank Wilbert Stokes - The Phantom Ship, Atlantic Ocean (ca. 1903)

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Seasonal "sparrows feasting in fields after rice harvest" scene for this antique outfit.

The lovely soft grey kimono shows suzume (sparrow) fluttering in a bamboo grove, a popular winter motif.

The auspicious embroidered obi depicts an ema (Shinto wooden plaque), with a sparrow flying by bountiful inaho (ears of rice).

Obi's woven ground is a lovely example of honmon rinzu (figured satin ground combining orchid, chrysanthemum, and sayagata), a pattern often found on women kimono items.