The 500 Colored Pencils Set is a monthly subscription for color: you get 25 pencils a month for 20 months, shipped directly to your house for an endless menagerie of colors running wild along your walls (if you buy the displays). The variety of colors alone is astounding, but check out some of the imaginative names that they’ve chosen for the colors: lettuce, mermaid’s gown, drizzly afternoon, mild curry, tragedy, norwegian sky.
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i am now the proud mommy of these hot little numbers…
For those of you who don’t speak rapier…
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fun things about today:
- irish handy-man with a tendency to sing little snippets of drinking songs from the old country
- a soon-to-be-repaired toilet (just kidding, in the time it took me to write this post, he fixed it!)
- b-e-a-utiful weather
- ART, the chance to get my hands dirty
- my precious puppy hanging out in the sunshine
THAT FACE
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In the late 1880s, the body of a 16-year-old girl was pulled from the Seine. She was apparently a suicide, as her body showed no marks of violence, but her beauty and her enigmatic smile led a Paris pathologist to order a plaster death mask of her face.
In the romantic atmosphere of fin de siècle Europe, the girl’s face became an ideal of feminine beauty. The protagonist of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1910 novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge writes, “The mouleur, whose shop I pass every day, has hung two plaster masks beside his door. [One is] the face of the young drowned woman, which they took a cast of in the morgue, because it was beautiful, because it smiled, because it smiled so deceptively, as if it knew.”
Ironically, in 1958 the anonymous girl’s features were used to model the first-aid mannequin Rescue Annie, on which thousands of students have practiced CPR. Though the girl’s identity remains a mystery, her face, it’s said, has become “the most kissed face of all time.”
astounding and appalling
1. I love Rilke
2. I almost worked for the company who made Annie.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpkonlVMgO1qge141o1_500.jpg)
In the late 1880s, the body of a 16-year-old girl was pulled from the Seine. She was apparently a suicide, as her body showed no marks of violence, but her beauty and her enigmatic smile led a Paris pathologist to order a plaster death mask of her face.
In the romantic atmosphere of fin de siècle Europe, the girl’s face became an ideal of feminine beauty. The protagonist of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1910 novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge writes, “The mouleur, whose shop I pass every day, has hung two plaster masks beside his door. [One is] the face of the young drowned woman, which they took a cast of in the morgue, because it was beautiful, because it smiled, because it smiled so deceptively, as if it knew.”
Ironically, in 1958 the anonymous girl’s features were used to model the first-aid mannequin Rescue Annie, on which thousands of students have practiced CPR. Though the girl’s identity remains a mystery, her face, it’s said, has become “the most kissed face of all time.”
astounding and appalling
1. I love Rilke
2. I almost worked for the company who made Annie.
Sonnet 23, Lines 1-2
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Molann an obair an fear. -- "The work praises the man."
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