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Scenes in anime vs. real life. The attention to detail is amazing! This comes from Garden of Words.

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Illustrations by Tatsuro Kiuchi

Tatsuro Kiuchi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1966. A biology major and graduate of International Christian University in Tokyo, he made the switch to an art career after graduating with distinction from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Tatsuro began illustrating children’s books with several publishers in the US and Japan, eventually branching out into editorial work for magazines, book jacket illustrations and advertising commissions. Tatsuro’s first picture book The Lotus Seed (text by Sherry Garland / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) has sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide. 

He has also been commissioned by such clients as Royal Mail to design their Christmas Stamp Collection in 2006, and Starbucks for their Worldwide Holiday Promotion “Pass the Cheer” in 2007. He was contributing a serial comic strip titled THE EARTHLING, appeared regularly in a quarterly magazine. Tatsuro is the owner of studio Pen Stil Writes and a member of Tokyo Illustrators Society. He teaches illustration at AOYAMAJUKU. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. 

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It’s essay writing season for tons of students!

After being a college writing tutor for over a year, I thought I would share my advice with all you awesome people on tumblr. This is how I write essays, but if you’ve got more tips, feel free to add them below. 

Happy writing. You can do it!

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Illustrations by Aykut Aydoğdu

Aykut Aydoğdu is a freelance illustrator and designer based in Istanbul, Turkey. If you want to follow artist work, check out his Behance page or let us recall his earlier work featured on our blog.

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Bless you, MusicalHoe.

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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky | The unequivocal master of painting the ocean | The saying “worthy of Aivazovsky’s brush”, popularized by Anton Chekhov, was used in Russia for “describing something ineffably lovely.”

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i guess i recorded an ice bucket challenge today after i got my wisdom teeth out ??

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MY POOP IS COMING

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Because I love History, I thought I should make a list of websites featuring awesome historical facts and resources. Will be updated.

The Map as History - A collection of animated historical maps which serves as timelines

Old Maps Online - A collection of old maps

99 Incredible Youtube Channels For History Buffs - A masterpost of videos which includes General History, Art History, Music History, Cultural History, Aviation History, U.S History, World History, Black History, and War History.

Voices of History - Listen to some of history’s most famous speeches and broadcast.

35 Greatest Speeches in History - 35 of the Best Orations and Orators

Worldology - A website for interactive maps which gives you an overview about civilizations, empires, nations, events, and people.

10 Heroic Last Stands from Military History - A Listverse article

10 Real-Life Female Spies Who Deserved Their Own Movie Franchise - Badass Women in History

Rome’s Pivotal Emperors - Some of the best Roman Emperors

History’s Greatest - History’s greatest people, places, and events.

HistoryNet - History features, photos, and articles taken from various magazines.

Timelines of History -  A collection of timelines from the Big Bang to modern events.

Secret and Spies - Read about the codes, code breakers, and spies in British history.

SwordHistory - Read all about different kinds of swords and armors, from Celtic swords to Egyptian swords and even Ninja swords. 

Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century - Read, listen, and download the most famous speeches in history.

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The Virgin Queen | Mediæval Bæbes

My care is like my shadow Laid bare beneath the sun It follows me at all times And flies when I pursue it I freeze and yet am always burned Since from myself again I turn I love and yet am forced to hate I seem stark mute; inside I prate Some gentler love doth ease itself Into my heart and mind For I am soft and made of snow Love, be more cruel or so be kind

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Hiroshi Yoshida

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Drawing Academy’s Free Drawing Video Lessons.

Sponsoring Supersonic this week is the online artist teaching resource Drawing Academy and they’re offering several free, online video drawing classes for Supersonic readers (Plus more to come, stay tuned).  The free classes also come with other valuable materials such as free eBooks, guides and art albums.

To sign up and receive your free art lessons simply head over to Drawing Academy.

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Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea (detail), 1808 [x]

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Sunset over a forest lake, 1895, Peder Mørk Mønsted

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5 Scary Books that Will Keep You Up At Night

The Collector by John Fowles

In a mega-scary riff on “The Tempest,” Fowles tells the story of an art student, Miranda, who’s captured by a man who’s been following her, and forced to live in a room he’s set up to appeal to her wishes. The man, Frederick Clegg, has won a small fortune from football pools and uses his winnings to try to transcend his social standing. The book is narrated from his point of view first, then Miranda’s, who keeps a diary logging her plans and hopes for escaping. The book may be more metaphorical than any gritty true crime story you’ll find, but that doesn’t take away from Fowles’ artful construction of feelings of suffocation.

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by Bela Von Spanyi