February 2012
g o , g e n , g o: The White Terraces, Pamukkale, Turkey →
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One of my favourite places in the world is the Pamukkale region in Turkey. Raw, untamed, powerful and awe-inspiring—the majestic landscape in this region caught my breath and inspired camera clicks, to say the least.
It’s not often that I am impressed by something, especially when it…
January 2012
“Something’s gotta give,
it may as well be our fingers.
Touch me, ‘til my ribs become piano keys,
‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs
cause i”m breaking old patterns.” —Andrea Gibson (via loveyourchaos)
it may as well be our fingers.
Touch me, ‘til my ribs become piano keys,
‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs
cause i”m breaking old patterns.” —Andrea Gibson (via loveyourchaos)
“The first time I was in Rome when I was very young, the pope was told about the discovery of some very beautiful statues in a vineyard near S. Maria Maggiore. The pope ordered one of his officers to run and tell Giuliano da Sangallo to go and see them. He set off immediately. Since Michelangelo Buonarroti was always to be found at our house, my father having summoned him and having assigned him the commission of the pope’s tomb, my father wanted him to come along, too. I joined up with my father and off we went. I climbed down to where the statues were when immediately my father said, “That is the Laocoön, which Pliny mentions.” Then they dug the hole wider so that they could pull the statue out. As soon as it was visible everyone started to draw, all the while discoursing on ancient things, chatting as well about the ones in Florence.”
—An eyewitness account of the discovery of the Laocoon statue group in 1506, a letter written sixty years later by Francesco da Sangallo, son of the famous architect Giuliano. Both father and son were present at the scene of discovey. (via quidquid)
Unpopular Opinion about Benedict Cumberbatch
Fair enough though, you do have a point there I suppose…
I have to admit that I’ve felt the same way about this particular issue. To each his own, though.
