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Roderick Mead (June 25, 1900 - 1971): Trojan Horse, ca. 1940s-1950s - color engraving, aquatint and soft ground etching on paper (Smithsonian)
“Mead was born in New Jersey in 1900. He studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and in New York at the Art Students’ League and the Grand Central School of Art with George Luks. Together with a group of other artists he moved to Majorca in 1931; there, he married New Mexico born Jarvis Kerr. Moving to Paris in 1934, they met Stanley William Hayter and Mead began to work at Atelier 17.
In 1939, with the onset of World War II, the Meads left for Carlsbad, New Mexico where he spent the rest of his life. He continued to teach, paint and create prints and maintained a close connection with Atelier 17 in New York.” (Source)
Martin Luther King Jr. (via azspot) (via dalasverdugo)
I love this aspect of his philosophy. “Be the change you wish to see.”
Accident: moved the camera halfway through the exposure, got pissed, swiveled it completely up for the next shot, waved iPhone in front of lens to get it to hurry up and expose and close, etc. (Larger).
If not the most devestating of events, accidents are often the most beautiful things. I think my life would be less appealing if things had always gone according to plan.
rd67:
Ali Farka Toure - Ali Aoudy [6:33]Ali Ibrahim “Farka” Touré (October 31, 1939 – March 7, 2006) was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent’s most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and its North American cousin, the blues. The belief that the latter is historically derived from the former is reflected in Martin Scorsese’s often quoted characterization of Touré’s tradition as constituting “the DNA of the blues”. Touré was ranked number 76 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”.
pica:
Sorry, not true. The “testes” root in “testify” is a false cognate.
“Testify” really comes from the Latin “testes,” meaning “witness.” The Latin word for “balls” is “colei.”
(original “fact” via onemoretimewithfeeling)
Pica is right, “testis” (m. or f.) is used of a witness, and probably comes from a combination of roots meaning “three” and “stand,” as in, “a third party standing beside.”
But “testis” only in the masc. gender can mean “testicle” in Latin as well, and there has been no satisfactory explanation for the relationship.