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enjoyed the book 💫
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The supporting cast were far from simply satellites orbiting about the star-crossed lovers, with the Montagues and Mercutio (Joey Batey) providing much of the afore-mentioned thrusting entertainment. However, this device turned sour at points, and the sense of threat that pervades most successful productions of this play was somewhat neglected. We were offered something close in the form of Batey, whose Mercutio was dogged by madness, death and an erotic interest in Romeo and most of the other characters on stage. His death scene was truly moving, and went some way to establish the tone of the second act with its slow spiral towards tragedy.
— Review of Joey in Romeo and Juliet
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In memory of Tolkien. His art.
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📍Capri, Italy 🇮🇹
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Lichen mimic flatid planthopper, Atracis cretacea, Flatidae
Photographed in India by girishgowda
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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:
- It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
- Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.
Thou wouldst not downloadeth a car
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Owning this cicada lamp made by @cady_the_creator would solve all my problems
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"It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons."
-JRR Tolkien // Cool quote
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trashpandaart3000
art by The Baby Goat
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Here’s the gold medal-winning, Olympic-record breaking javelin throw by Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan. It is the first medal won in 32 years and first ever gold won at the Olympics for Pakistan.
A few facts:
He broke the Olympic record twice this round, with another throw of 91+m.
3/4 too throws this round were by him.
He is self taught, so notice how his footwork and overall stance isn’t top-tier when compared to other javelin throwers. All he has is brute-strength, which is exactly what he needed to succeed.
He used the same javelin spear for 8 years until it broke last March, when he went to the media begging for help, leading to the government importing one just for him.
He qualified for an athletics competition final for track and field for the first time in Pakistan’s history in Tokyo 2020, where he placed fifth. He is the first-ever Pakistani athlete to be on the Olympics track-and-field podium.
Pakistan has almost zero sports infrastructure, where even cricket suffers due to a lack of adequate leaders, coaches, and support. Almost every other sport? Virtually nothing.
He has truly cemented himself as a national treasure, and inshallah will continue to succeed in the future🇵🇰💚
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He really is one of those built from the bottom up athletes🥹 super interesting!!
tags by @themagnusprotocolisapodcast
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My rebinding of The Hobbit, the illustrated version. This book came out lovely. It's one of the few examples I didn't use hand marbled paper but Chiyogami paper (the decorative tree paper) instead. It was the right call. The rest is green goatskin with some metal furniture (decorative pieces on the cover). And of course the gold tooling on the cover and spine are all hand done.
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He deserves it
Ok I need someone to win the seagull with a chip toy for me too
Source: instagram.com
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Here are the lighthouses of Europe. The map is even better than it might seem at first glance: the colors are the real colors, the patterns are the real patterns, and the size of the dots is the distance at which each light is visible.
Interactive map: https://geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/
by @emollick
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Cricket Cat concept. Do you see it? Do you see my vision? I don't think they'd purr or meow, just chirp with their wings.
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The Lonely Mountain🏔️
My favorite scene in the film!!
May 11th, 2022 - February 15th 2023 (I spent so much time on it😭)
Photographed under lamplight (the daylight version could be found in my posts)