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did nasa just forget bi and lesbians exist or did they ask them beforehand..would they that…i just..what..

its because they don’t want people getting pregnant on space missions, the article is badly written scissoring in space is to be expected and respected

Reblog if you support wlw astronauts getting it on at 0 gravity

In space no one can hear lesbians scream

Forgotten By History

Female firefighters at Pearl Harbor (1941).

Donna Tobias - the first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Deep Sea Diving School in 1975.

Brave women of the Red Cross hitting the beach at Normandy.

Dottie Kamenshek was called the best player in women’s baseball and was once recruited to play for a men’s professional team.

Kate Warne - Private Detective. Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton. She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily. She had taken part in embezzlement and railroad security cases when in 1861 the Pinkertons developed the first lead about an anti-Lincoln conspiracy.

Catherine Leroy, female photographer in Vietnam.

The three women pictured in this incredible photograph from 1885 – Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria – each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.

Female Samurai Warrior - Onno-Bugeisha - Female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class. Many women engaged in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war.

One of the most feared of all London street gangs from the late 1880’s was a group of female toughs known as the Clockwork Oranges. They woulde later inspire Anthony burgess’ most notorious novel. Their main Rivals were the All-female “the Forty Elephants” gang.

Maureen Dunlop de Popp, Pioneering female pilot who flew Spitfires during Second World War. She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1942 and became one of a small group of female pilots who were trained to fly 38 types of aircraft.

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29.

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did nasa just forget bi and lesbians exist or did they ask them beforehand..would they that…i just..what..

its because they don’t want people getting pregnant on space missions, the article is badly written scissoring in space is to be expected and respected

Reblog if you support wlw astronauts getting it on at 0 gravity

In space no one can hear lesbians scream

I feel uncomfortable around you guys all of a sudden. I have a stomachache all the time. I don’t want to keep secrets. People at school have been having crushes and stuff. And lots of girls have boyfriends. But…I don’t want one. 

A remarkable Jacobean re-emergence after 200 years of yellowing varnish Courtesy Philip Mould

PAINT RESTORATION OF MESMERIZING

I saw this on Twitter. He’s using acetone, but a cellulose ether has been added to make it into a gel (probably Klucel—this entire gel mixture is sometimes just called Klucel by restorers, but Klucel is specifically the stuff that makes the gel). 

Normally, acetone is too volatile for restoration, but when it’s a gel, it becomes very stable and a) stays on top of the porous surface of the painting, and b) won’t evaporate. So it can eat up the varnish.

It looks scary, but acetone has no effect on oils, and jelly acetone is even less interactive with the surface of the paint or canvas.

Will someone PLEASE clean the mona lisa

For those who are wondering, they cleaned a copy of the Mona Lisa made by one of Da Vinchi’s students, and here’s a side by side comparison:

CLEAN THE FUCKING MONA LISA.

A couple problems with cleaning the Mona Lisa:

The Mona Lisa is a glazed painting.

A Direct Painting is one in which the artist mixes a large amount of paint of the correct value and shade the first time, and applies it to the painting. A Glazed Painting is a painting in which an underpainting is painted, generally in shades of gray or brown, and a allowed to dry, before layers of very thin glaze - a mixture of a tiny bit of pigment and a lot of oil - is applied to the surface.  Some artists, such as Leonardo, choose to work this way because it provides an incredible sense of light and illumination (look at how the real Mona Lisa seems to glow).

The Mona Lisa is an incredible work of glazed painting, but that makes it fragile, so fragile that many conservators don’t want to work on it because it’s extremely difficult and a conservation effort go wrong for many many reasons. One of the reasons it could go wrong is that the glazes and the varnish layers are actually a very similar chemical composition, and a conservator could accidentally strip off layers of glaze while removing the varnish. 

In fact, in 1809 during its first restoration when they stripped off the varnish, they also stripped off some of the top paint layers, which has caused the painting to look more washed out than Leonardo painted it. 

The Mona Lisa also has a frankly ridiculous amount of glaze layers on it, as Leonardo considered it incomplete up until he died, He actually took it with him when he left Italy (fleeing charges of homosexuality), meaning it never even got to the family who had commissioned it, and instead constantly altered it, trying to get it just a touch more perfect every time. That makes it really fragile, with countless layers of very thin paint, many of which have cracked, warped, flaked, or discolored. It’s not just the top layer, its layers and layers of glazing throughout the painting that have slowly discolored or been damaged over time.

Speaking of damage, look at the cracking. That’s called craquelure; it happens with many painting’s (even ones that aren’t painted with this technique) because the paint shrinks as it dries, or the surface it’s painted on warps.  Notice that the other painting has very little of it, even though it’s almost the same age.

The reason the Mona Lisa has so much craquelure is because Leonardo was highly experimental, almost to the point of it being his biggest flaw. There were established painting techniques, and then there were Leonardo’s painting techniques.  The established painting techniques were created in order to insure longevity and quality, but Leonardo didn’t stick to any of them. This has made his work a ticking time bomb of deterioration. 

Don’t believe me, check it out:

This is how most people think The Last Supper looks

But this is actually a copy done by Andrea Solari in 1520.

The actual Last Supper looks like this:

The Last Supper has been painstakingly and teadiously restored, with conservators sometimes working on sections as small as 4 cm a day. To get to it you’ve got to walk through a series of airlocks (AIRLOCKS!?!?!) and they only allow 15 people at a time because the moisture from your breath and your skin particles will damage it. Despite all of the precautions and restoration, it still looks like that.

This is because Leonardo painted the last supper using highly experimental methods. He didn’t use the traditional wet-into-wet method that fresco painters used, and insead painted onto the dry plaster on the wall, meaning the paint did not chemically adhere.  Before he even died the painting had already begun to flake. It’s a miracle it’s still there at all.

They’ve done what restoration they can on The Last Supper because the painting will absolutely disappear if they don’t. The Mona Lisa, which is delicate, but much more stable, doesn’t need the same kind of attention. And, like many of his works, is just too delicate to touch, and the risk of doing irreparable damage to it is far too high. The Mona Lisa is insured for something like 800 million dollars, and that’s a lot of money to be ruined by one wrong brush stroke. (fun fact: the most expensive painting ever sold was also a Leonardo, the Salvator Mundi, and it went for 450 million dollars.)

Furthermore, there are probably only 20 or so authenticated Leonardo paintings in the whole world. If you look through the list, most of them aren’t even fully done by him, are disputed, or aren’t even finished.  It’s simply too difficult and too risky to restore the Mona Lisa, one of Leonardo’s only finished and mostly intact works, when there’s hardly any more of his paintings to fall back on.

Now the painting you see in the video above is 200 years old, not 600 years old, and I assure you, the conservators decided the risk to restore it was minimal (after extensive research, paint testing, x-raying, gamma radiation, etc.) and that the work they were doing was worth the risk based on the painting’s value.

Conservators make the decision all the time about how much they can do for a painting, because really, they have the ability to completely strip a painting of all varnish and glazes and just repaint the whole thing (which happens to a lot of badly damaged paintings, especially when there’s no way to save them - one of the very small museums in my area recently deaccessioned a Monet because it was barely original, and no one wants to look at a Monet that’s only 20% Monet’s work) - but doing that to the Mona Lisa, removing the artist’s hand from the most famous piece of artwork in history? Hell No.

(also, I’m not a conservator but I’ll be applying to a conservation grad program sometime next year, so sorry if any of my info is at all inaccurate) 

I found this really interesting, thanks for sharing.

Thank you for answering a huge question I had. Very illuminating!

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When you are one with the music

Luvs it

WHO IS SHE

ALONDRA DE LA PARRA

#a warning to anyone out there attracted to women#she looks great in a tux

Have some more photos of her in action, because I love her:

And my all-time favorite:

She looks like she’s casting spells

Now open, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power presents the complex work of Black artists who—at a time of dizzying political, social, and aesthetic revolution—produced some of the most innovative and electric art of the 20th century. See it now through Feb 3. And, don’t forgot to grab your tickets for tomorrow’s horn-infused dance party with Soul in the Horn! Dance to hits from the 1960-80’s, enjoy a special after hours viewing of Soul of a Nation, and have your portrait taken by Paper Monday. 

Art Russian vocabulary Masterpost in English/Spanish

художник (m) — artist — artista

картина (f)— painting —pintura

произведение искусства (n) — piece of art — obra de arte

эскиз (m) — sketch — boceto

цвет (m) — color — color

свет (m) — light — luz

тень (f) — shadow — sombra

живопись (f) — painting — pintura

натюрморт (m) — still life — naturaleza muerta

портрет (m) — portrait —retrato

декоративно-прикладное искусство (n) — arts and crafts — artes decorativas aplicadas

кисть (f) — brush — pincel

масляные краски (f, plural) — oil paints — óleos

акварель (f) — watercolor — acuarela

пастель (f) — pastel — pastel

тушь (f) — ink — tinta

гуашь (f) — gouache

цветные карандаши (m, plural) — crayonts —lápices de colores

фломастеры (m, plural) — markers — rotuladores

палитра (f) — palette —paleta

планшет (m) — clipboard — portapapeles

бумага (f) — paper —papel

рисовать — paint — pintar

изображать —represent — representar

иллюстрировать — illustrate — ilusrtrar

яркий(ая) —bright — brillante

констрастный(ая) — contrast — de contraste

плотный(ая) — dense — denso

тонкий(ая) — thin — fino

густой(ая) — thick — espeso

жидкий(ая) — liquid — líquido

здание (n) — building — edificio

архитектор (m) — architect — arquitecto

монумент (m) — monument — monumento

скульптура (f) — sculpture — escultura

скульптор (m) — sculptor — escultor

мастерская (f) — workshop — taller

инструмент (m) — tool — herramienta

чертеж (m) — drawing — dibujo

форма (f) — shape — forma

поверхность (f) — surface — superficie

стиль (m) — style — estilo

дворец (m) — palace — palacio

замок (m) — castle — castillo

собор (m) — cathedral — catedral

крепость (f) — fortless — fortaleza

фундамент (m) — foundation — base

арка (f) — arch — arco

фасад (m)— facade — fachada

башня (f) — tower — torre

купол (m) — dome — cúpula

воздвигать/строить/конструировать — rear/build — erigir/construir

лепить — mold — moldear

вырезать — carve — tallar

масштабный(ая) — extensive — amplio

огромный(ая) — huge — enorme

небольшой(ая)/маленький(ая) — small— pequeño

высокий(ая) — high — alto

широкий(ая) — wide — vasto

узкий(ая) — narrow — estrecho

помпезный(ая) — pompous — pomposo

гамма (f) — music scale — escala musica

нота (f) — note — nota

партитура (f) — score — partitura

музыкальный инструмент (m) — musical instrument — instrumento musical

либретто (n) — libretto — libreto

опера (f) — opera — ópera

оркестр (m) — orchestra — orquesta

симфония (f) — simphony — sinfonía

хор (m) — choir — coro

вокалист(ка) — vocalist — vocalista

клавиши (f, plural) — keyboard — tecla

дирижёр (m) — conductor — director

музыкальные инструменты:

гитара (f) — guitar — guitarra

пианино/рояль (m) — piano — piano

орган (m) — organ — organillo

скрипка (f) — violin — violín

барабаны (m, plural) — drums — batería

виолончель (f) — cello — violonchelo

слушать — listen — escuchar

исполнять/играть — play — tocar

дирижировать — conduct — dirigir

петь — sing — cantar

медленный(ая) — slow — lento

страстный(ая) — passionate — apasionado

взволнованный(ая) — exited — entusiasmado

динамичный(ая) — dynamic — dinámico

печальный(ая) — sad — triste

радостный(ая) — happy — feliz

громкий(ая) — loud — fuerte

тихий(ая) — quite — tranquilo

Feel free to correct inaccuracies and add more! This list will probably be updated! Xx

— Martin Luther King Jr. (via wordsnquotes)

He was SHOOK

I’m shook.

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE dir. Hayao Miyazaki

The Doctor

This … this is just awesome. The music, the editing, just … just everything.  Awesome.  Wish there were more doctors besides Ten, Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen though. 

The first farewell video to actually bring me to tears.

10 years ago today, the Doctor and Donna were reunited while investigating Adipose Industries in ‘Partners in Crime’!