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Charles on… anything that comes along » Where’s the Prometheus script, then? Or what the original Alien script teaches us about writing screenplays
Interesting article about the many differences between the original Alien screenplay and the final film.
‘The Chinese Fish Collection is a large set of 19th century watercolour sketches depicting species from the waterways and seas of China and Japan.’ (via BibliOdyssey: Marine East Asia)
Design for the Vyner Memorial Window, Lady Chapel, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Edward Burne-Jones, 1871 (via British Museum)
‘Summer Snow’. Illustration to Good Words, 1863, p.330 Block cut by Dalziel Brothers, after Edward Burne-Jones (via British Museum)
Rose of Heaven (Venus and her doves amongst the stars), formerly in an album of 42 drawings, entitled ‘The Flower Book’. Edward Burne-Jones, 1882-98 (via British Museum)
Please help Tricia Lockwood’s husband’s eyes
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Elegant Choice, the husband of my dear friend and Amazing Poet Patricia Lockwood, needs your help. He’s going blind & needs an operation. They need money. Please donate what you can. Here’s Tricia’s blog post about it, with instructions about how to make a donation. Please reblog this if you care about poems or eyes or husbands or doing good things in the world
Fragnentary stucco figure of a male deity, probably a Bodhisattva. C6th-7th. Excavated at the Ming-oi (‘Thousand Houses’) site, Shorchuk, Xinjiang, China. (via British Museum)
Yves Klein, Making “Fire Paintings” at the Centre d’Essais du Gaz de France, Paris. 1961 (via MONDOBLOGO: man crush: yves klein)
