Duomo de Siena, Tuscany, Italy (by mamiron65)
Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
A view rarely seen by anyone. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell stands ABOVE the top of the Washington Monument. The Secretary received an update on the repairs needed following the August 2011 earthquake and took a tour up to the top earlier this month.
During the same trip, photographer Tami A. Heilemann was able to snap unique photos of the Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial and view of the National Mall and U.S. Capitol Building.
Photos: Tami A. Heilemann
(via etiquetteforalady)
“Miniature topographies inside 200-gallon fish tanks, based on traditional landscape paintings. Keever fills the tanks with water once he’s sculpted and placed the miniatures, and colored lights and pigments create dense, atmospheric environments. He views his works as an evolution of the landscape tradition and deliberately acknowledges the conceptual artifice.”
(via to-dark-to-find-home)
A popular summary of the words of Francis I of France in a letter to his mother following his defeat at Pavia, 1525 (in Collection des Documents Iné dits sur l’Histoire de France (1847) vol 1).
De toutes choses ne m’est demeuré que l’honneur et la vie qui est saulve.
Of all I had,…
Richard Cosway. Detail from Portrait of Marianne Dorothy Harland, Later Mrs. William Dalrymple.
(Source: jaded-mandarin, via to-dark-to-find-home)
Flight - Hans Zimmer - Man of Steel
