Two stars orbiting a black hole, close enough to Earth you can see it with your naked eye. Needs a better name than ‘HR6819’. #europeansouthernobservatory
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Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection.⠀⠀
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The Latin at the top reads: “The name of this herb is Canabe”. And beneath the image: “Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing."⠀⠀
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#Happy420 #420 #420day #fourtwenty #weed #marijuana #cannabis #medieval #manuscript #herbal #hightimes #medicine
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Death intrudes on a wealthy astrologer, who points to his armillary sphere as if to say “’But it was not written in the stars…” From Hans Holbein’s exquisitely grim woodblock series The Dance of Death (1523–5). More on our site, just click link in bio and search “holbein”.⠀
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how the fuck did all of those renaissance dilettantes learn so much crap? Like they spoke 3 languages and were foremost in several branches of science, plus they wrote poetry, played the violin, and were master artists? And they still had time to be gay?
Vidya Gastaldon (French, b. 1974, Besançon, France, based Genèva, Switzerland) - What Ever It Is (Eye), 2009, Mixed Media, Acrylics, Gouache, Watercolors, Pencils on old Paper
“All of the actors who trained in it, in the beginning, [we] had the response that some of the audience had. We’re a bunch of actors, we’re not dancers, we’re not even necessarily particularly athletic, some of us, and we’re just showing up in our sweats in a room. We’ve all just met each other and now we’re going to move our body in ways we’ve never moved them before? And we’re going to do it in front of each other? In the beginning, you’re embarrassed, you’re ashamed, you laugh a little to make it feel OK, but by the time we were doing those movements for two or three months on end, something otherworldly starts to happen in your own body and starts to happen between people who are doing them.”