La Grace Is A Replica Of A Brig From The 18th Century.

Uzbek May Day postcard (1960s)

"May, Labour, Peace" is the traditional Soviet May Day slogan.

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ANDREI RUBLEV - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966.

Tarkovsky cinematically composes his wonderful biography of the great Russian icons painter like an altarpiece made by 8 crucial episodes in his life in which two fundamental motives emerge: the Artist's role in the society and the complex relation between Power and People. The film, marvelously photographed in B&W, progresses through stunning plan-sequences and blatantly signals from the very beginning (the fly of ancient Efim who rides his rudimentary hot air balloon "to see the world from above") and the end (Rublev's icon "The Trinity", al last shown in glorious full colors, and the peaceful horses in the countryside) the successive developments of Tarkovsky's cinema, so hermetic and sublime.

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Currently trying my hand at completely coding my first Game UI completely by myself, No template, No assistance, just me hunched over my computer. :)

Citing such factors as work-related stress, mortgage worries, and the ever-growing duties of parenthood and marriage, Erdman said he has finally accepted the reality that embarrassingly bad films, TV shows, and consumer products are no longer a viable source of amusement for him.

“I turn on the TV these days, and if I see something that’s unbelievably stupid and insulting to my intelligence, all I want to do is turn it off,” said Erdman, pausing to sip from a Tom Collins, a drink he began ordering in 1989 to be amusing but now orders without irony on the rare occasion when he still drinks. “What’s happened to me?”

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it wild to me that there are people out there who aren't interested in history

like wdym you don't think about the fact that women would tell stories as they made butter in the same way we listen to podcasts today? wdym you don't think about that one Chinese poet who wrote about how much he loved his cats hundreds of years ago? wdym you don't think about the fact that we found a gravesite of a young child surrounded by flowers from THOUSANDS of years ago? wdym you don't think about how people wrote "i was here" into the walls in Pompeii? wdym you don't think about the little egyptian boy who drew little doodles at the top of his school works more then a thousand years ago?

wdym you don't think about the fact that people, no matter the place, time, social status, are fundamentally no different from you. that they loved the same as you, enjoyed the same things you did, dreamed about a better life the same way you did. that despite how seemingly detached you are from these people, in time, place, and culture, the things you do and the thing u are, are so undeniably human that it transcends time and space

Smokey the Bear Fire Safety poster mock-up

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The ruins of Lindy Boggs Medical Center (formerly Old Mercy Hospital) at night, March 2024.

The hospital was in operation from the 1920s to 2005, when Hurricane Katrina flooded the lower floors and knocked out the generators, which were located in the basement. While details of the story are often conflated with oral history surrounding similar events which occurred uptown at Oschner Baptist Hospital, possibly as many as 45 patients at Lindy Boggs lost their lives due to heat, thirst, and a lack of critical medical services. The survivors were fortunately rescued by airlift, except for one man who stayed behind to look after the neighborhood pets who had taken refuge on the dry upper levels.

The hospital was abandoned soon after and is today a conspicuous ruin towering over Bayou St. John and the Mid-City neighborhood. A popular destination for urbex explorers and graffiti artists, the floors and walls of the basement and sub-basement are still damp with moisture from the storm twenty years ago.

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