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Cave paintings from Magura Cave, Bulgaria, estimated to be around 10k-8k years old depicting animals and people, hunting, ritual dances, and deities
βOh, Whatβs that in the Hollow?β by Edward Robert Hughes, c. 1893.
Paintings by Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (French, 1872β1967)
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purlsβ¦
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom beingβ¦
3322 square feet
Factoring it outβ¦302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
could the beach painting not be intended as a somewhat ~racy~ depiction (see: the topless woman), hence the short/tight clothes?
oh it 1000% is
that is his Fantasy Version of Combinations, I'm convinced
it's like that one artist nobody now realizes loved to depict women half-dressed, because corset-covers look like tank tops to us and petticoats look like normal (even old-fashioned and concealing!) skirts. what was that guy's name? with all the blue silk?
...TOULMOUCHE
this woman is showing her underwear. a glimpse of petticoat might be fine, but Skirt Hiking To Reveal A Huge Amount? nope. that is a sexy painting.
Lounging About With My Bodice Inexplicably Open is a popular Toulmouche theme. the white "tank top" is also underwear. note the half-up hair- that is also sexy!
damnit, Toulmouche why is this lady sexy? there's a kid in the painting! have some decency! but no, Mama is praying with her child while inexplicably having removed specifically her bodice but not her skirt. nor has she just changed into nightclothes before putting the kiddo to bed like a normal person. also that is clearly her chemise and her skirt would not close over it without her corset on; the fat distribution would be all different.
this one is just gay. Mlle. Red is clearly into Mlle. Nightwear/Lingerie and her sexy 1880s pixie cut (I think? either that or her hair is blending REALLY well with the shadows). I'm here for it
"this letter is so distressing that I had to stop midway through getting dressed and put on my Bolero of Sadness. and lounge seductively against the screen. sad-ductively, I mean"
Get dressed to the point of putting bodice on
do not put bodice on
don Tiny Vest
pin roses to corset cover that would 100% negate purpose of corset cover if actually attached to it
???
Toulmouche(TM)
Once again, that's not even her corset-cover. It's the top part of her combinations. how is her skirt fitting without the corset it was fitted on top of? Seamstresses Hate Local Painter Of Specific Fetish For This One Weird Fitting Trick!
(also, "you wanted to paint a woman in this one very particular unlikely undress state you find hot, but you painted her making out with a mirror and called it Vanity etc." there's actually a version of this called Vanity, and she's fully dressed. this one is The Mirror.)
I've got nothing. Extremely obvious late Victorian undergarment on top normal late Victorian skirt on bottom, fucking Renaissance Revival pearl-encrusted sleeves. Why not. Why, indeed, the fuck not.
WHAT IS WITH THE LITTLE VEST
Royal Palace, Amsterdam, 17th century.
mia goth as harriet smith in emma (2020) dir. autumn de wilde || infanta isabella of spain (1851β1931) by vicente palmaroli
miss helen dunham by john singer sargent (1892) // uma thurman as cΓ©cile de volanges in βdangerous liaisonsβ (1988) dir.Β stephen frears
πππππππ ππππππππ ππ ππππ πππππππ ππππππ ππ πππππππ ππππ (2015) πππ. πππππππππ πππ ππππ // "πππππ" (1862) ππ ππππππ πππππππππ (1829β1880)
βthe love potionβ (c. 1903, detail) by evelyn de morgan (1855-1919) + βas good a reasonβ by paris paloma (2023)
nymphs finding the head of orpheus (detail) by john william waterhouse (1900) | petr svojtka as prince in β malΓ‘ moΕskΓ‘ vΓla / the little mermaid β (1976) dir. karel kachyΕa
sα΄α΄ Ιͺα΄ κ°Κα΄sα΄ α΄s Κα΄α΄Κ α΄‘α΄sα΄α΄Ι΄Κα΄ ΙͺΙ΄ ΚΚα΄α΄ sα΄α΄α΄α΄Κβs α΄ Κα΄α΄α΄Κα΄ (1992) α΄ ΙͺΚ. κ°Κα΄Ι΄α΄Ιͺs κ°α΄Κα΄ α΄α΄α΄α΄α΄Κα΄ | α΄ΙͺΚα΄Ι΄α΄ α΄ (1868) ΚΚ κ°Κα΄α΄ α΄ΚΙͺα΄α΄ sα΄Ι΄α΄ Κs (1829-1904)
emily perkins as brigitte fitzgerald in ginger snaps (2000) dir. john fawcett / praying the rosary (detail, 1914) by aurelia navarro moreno (1882-1968)
1. Gustav Klimt, Judith and the Head of Holofernes (Judith I), 1901, oil on canvas, 84 x 42Β cm, Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna. Source
2.Β Gustav Klimt, Judith II (Salome), 1909, oil on canvas, 178 x 46Β cm, Musei Civici Veneziani, Venice. Source
In both his depictions of this particular subject, Klimt chose to show Judith holding the head of Holofernes, rather than presenting the decapitation itself. Furthermore, the compositional focus in both cases is the glamourous figure of Judith; the head of theΒ Assyrian generalΒ is in fact cut off by the paintingβs border and a dark sack in the earlier and later versions respectively.
