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Iris (Japan, between 1823 and 1829) by Kawahara Keiga (1786–).
Pencil and watercolour.
Siebold collection. Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
Wikimedia.
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Then I told him that I felt that Norman Bates, if he were a painting, would be painted by Hopper, and he agreed. So we had kind of that discussion, writer and actor, about the character. He had an incredible grasp on Norman Bates and the situation that he was in. I think Tony Perkins must have known what it was like to be trapped. —Joseph Stefano, screenwriter, in The Making of Psycho (1997)
PSYCHO dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
HOUSE BY THE RAILROAD by Edward Hopper (1925)
#psycho#alfred hitchcock#house by the railroad#edward hopper#joseph stefano#anthony perkins#original post
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"You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw, but only at the air, only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch."
PSYCHO (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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Albertine Books French Embassy New York City
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Charles Darwin’s Study
Located in rural Kent, England, Charles Darwin’s Down House is where the famous scientist lived and worked for over 40 years. Inside the home, Darwin had a private study where he would write in solitude. Darwin was a morning person and felt he did his best work between the hours of 8 AM and 9:30 AM. It was in this room that Darwin wrote his landmark work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Darwin lined his shelves not only with books but also with animal specimens he found while taking walks in the afternoons.
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Tina Weymouth, Talking Heads
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Newly digitized: a landmark in the history of science, Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, or Starry Messenger, reports his astronomical observations through the newly invented telescope, showing the mountains and craters of the Moon, and the satellites of Jupiter, for the very first time.
IC6.G1333.610s
Houghton Library, Harvard University
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The Tea Set, 1872, Claude Monet
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BLUE VELVET (dir. David Lynch, 1986)
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Yuri Knorozov holding a cat | Soviet linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer. Recognized for deciphering the Maya script (1971)
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ROPE (1948) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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Candace Hilligoss as Mary Henry in
Carnival of Souls dir. Herk Harvey (1962)
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i had a dream that i was hired by an elderly couple to move in with them in a remote cabin to help take care of the terminally ill wife through her final days and as i did the housework the husband would hold her hand and talk to her sweetly and he spoke of their life and adventures together and it was a lot like the beginning of pixar's up and one day the husband told me my work is done and that i should move back to the city so i understood that her time was up and i left immediately but then i felt bad because i realized i left that soon to spare myself the grief of lingering in the house with these memories yet i left the husband all on his own there and he must have it worse than me so i searched everywhere to find his contact information which i did not already have for whatever reason and i wanted to check on him when i finally found his facebook and his most recent status posted was "FINALLY i can get a MAN!!!"
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Katt [bilde 013], ca. 1988-90
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THE X-FILES | 2x03 'BLOOD'
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Isabelle huppert in Madame Bovary, Claude Chabrol, 1991
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THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT dir. Jacques Demy
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