Shona, professional procrastinator from Scotland.
Also an English Lit grad and hopeless bibliophile who will never see the bottom of her to-read pile.
Sherlock Holmes (BBC, books and I'm currently watching Granada), Mark Gatiss, Jeeves and Wooster, Luther, Regina Spektor, Suits (USA), films, art and literature-y things all feature here a lot...
Regina Spektor is my queen.
Stephen Fry is my god.
Feel free to ask me anything!
Yes it is *sigh*, thanks for the link. I think this is the first time I’ve been reposted, so I would be almost… flattered? (If it wasn’t for the fact I’d trawled for a good couple of hours to find a version of The Magic Circle of high enough res to crop that far in.)
art history meme | 4/8 artists: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
A prolific painter, draftsman, and etcher, Rembrandt is usually regarded as the greatest artist of Holland’s “Golden Age.” A crucial aspect of Rembrandt’s development was his intense study of people, objects, and their surroundings “from life,” as is obvious in paintings like his early self-portraits and the Saint Paul in Prison of 1627 (Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie). Even by Dutch standards, Rembrandt’s preoccupation with direct observation was exceptional and continued throughout his career. Despite the constant evolution of his style, Rembrandt’s compelling descriptions of light, space, atmosphere, modeling, texture, and human situations may be traced back even from his late works to the foundations of his Leiden years.
Nina Katchadourian - Sorted Books
“I suddenly recalled a moment in the university library when, looking for a book, I had turned my head sideways as I walked down the stacks and thought how spectacular it would be if all the titles formed an accidental sentence when read one after the other in a long chain. Standing amidst the bookshelves in Half Moon Bay, my next move was simply to make this imaginary accident real. I spent days shifting and arranging books, composing them so that their titles formed short sentences. The exercise was intimate, like a form of portraiture, and it felt important that the books I selected should function as a cross section of the larger collection.”
