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Wet Paint

This is the best color for wet paint to be (and so hip [via W is for]).
P.S. I thought up a great/terrible joke today as I was driving… —What is the most holy guitar chord? —Gsus! Hahahaha… Yeah.

Bacteria

Bacteria in water
The bluer, the hotter

Prisms

Deck prisms.

Ciel

I was recently asked to specify my first New Year’s Resolution, which was to “Be more romantic.” I find romantic a difficult word to define; happily, a few lexicographers have done the job for me. Their entries are quite poetic in themselves, I think.
Oxford English Dictionary

romantic, adj.
b. Mus. Characterized by the subordination of form to [...]

And sometimes nature

And sometimes nature makes art out of our arts, and we wake up to find that our sidewalks have become negative prints of what had been upon them. Here, rainstorms leave behind shadows like aftermath of autumnal atomic bombs. Fallen but not yet forgotten.

Paleography

I’ve switched my concentration focus (again) to an emphasis in medieval and early modern literatures and cultures. It’s anybody’s guess if I’ll change for a fourth time before I graduate. In any case, one reason why I switched was because I’m taking so many awesome classes this semester that focus in that period, one of [...]

Sometimes at museums I spend more time looking at the frames than the pictures

The French artist Kolkoz might be the same:

Le Sacre de Christophe Colomb, 2008, by Kolkoz. Image from Galerie Perrotin. I would kill to see an entire gallery of pieces like these. Wouldn’t you?
(Discovered via Jalouse.)

Happy New Year!

My resolutions:
1. Be more romantic.
2. Be more reckless.
What are yours?
(Photo by the ever-wonderful Alison Scarpulla.)

Movies I watched recently

Charade (1963). Look at that beautiful Art Nouveau lamp. I want it bad. The movie — a romantic suspense  set in Paris — was pretty delightful, too. Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn were such wonderful personalities.

Wings of Desire, or Der Himmel über Berlin (1987). Favorite line: “Time heals all… but what if Time itself is [...]

Art Nouveau book covers

Source: Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815–1930: The Art of the Book. University of Wisconsin–Madison. I highly recommend looking through their collection! Search string “art nouveau” gets 132 results, all of them delicious.
Which one of the above is your favorite?