Idk how to explain it but I feel like if September was an artist it would be Florence Welch. Anyway happy September 1
“Sorry for the late response, I was busy rebranding my failures as redirections.”
I think the only person I've met in real life with 100% career satisfaction was this gal I knew who was a presenter at a children's science museum and delivered every line like she was running a WWE match. Every time you passed the room where she was giving a presentation, you'd hear something like "WHO'S READY FOR CEPHALOPODS?!?" and the kids would go absolutely nuts cheering.
Happy 37th birthday to THE demon daddy, Florence Welch! 💞⚘️
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.
Sometimes I feel I’m better lived in my head. Better experienced in my thoughts. Better thriving in silence.
Girls in photo booths, 1940s-1980s
along the santa fe trail | national geographic [march 1991]
These tights are so perfect
Sold out everywhere </3
sweethearts in photo booths (1920s-1960s)
Calypso’s Isle (1897, oil on canvas) Herbert James Draper
