mushroomtale-fanart:

On LJ and AO3.

Title: In A Land of Myth and A Time of Magic
Rating: G
Content Notes: My little sendoff for the show that’s made my year since I discovered it last spring. And I have mixed feelings about how this turned out, but anyway, this is basically how I will always remember Merlin… no matter how things turn out, yeah? 

(via doylefan22)

b-sama:

New Africa: the South African artist addressing her family’s past

Mary Sibande’s ancestors could only be maids. Now she uses their uniforms in her art

In the new South Africa, black children could go to white schools, which Sibande promptly did. “I guess that’s where my aspirations came from. I wanted to be like them. I wanted to blend in. But I couldn’t because of my skin colour.”

In her fourth year at university – she went to study fashion but ended up in fine art – her grandmother started talking to her about being a maid. “I knew this, but it didn’t stick. You think it’s normal. All the women in my family were maids. And here I am, born in 1982, and my destiny is totally different and I have this freedom to be what I want to be. But my grandmother, she spoke about all the things she wished she could have been.”

It was this that gave Sibande the idea for “Sophie”, an idealised maid dressed in Victorian crinolines. She had a mannequin cast from her own body and shot it in different poses. “With her eyes closed. That, for me, illustrated the idea of aspiring and wishing.”

(via newwavefeminism)

amoderndandy:

From 1909 to 1912 Russian Photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire, supported by Tsar Nikolas II. The pictures were taken in black and white, but three at a time in rapid succession with a red, a blue and a green filter, which allowed them to be combined into colour images later.
Found here.

(via vilecrocodile)