My name is Victoria.
I am twenty-three. I am married and I also have children.
I am a full time student with a major in anthropology, but with an interest in everything from music to forensic chemistry.
I enjoy taking pictures of what I see, and I tend to post many pictures of my family.
Though most pictures are ones I reblog unless indicated otherwise.
My husband, Sol, is a musician so hopefully at some point in time we will have some music to post. Until then enjoy my playlist <3
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
(Source: nocturnalblood)
Not the best I have ever done, but it was fun to create.
IRON MAIDEN!!!
Jay DeFeo - The Rose (1958-69)
“The story of Jay DeFeo and The Rose is both a cautionary tale of obsession and an inspiring tale of determination and belief. She began working on The Rose in 1958. She was 29 years old and for the next eight years, she did little else but sit on a stool in her studio, smoking cigarettes, drinking brandy while she painted and scraped away at her vision.
First titled The Deathrose, then The White Rose and finally just The Rose, DeFeo only stopped working on the painting when an increase in rent forced her from her studio. By then it was 1966, her marriage was ending, she was in fragile physical and mental health, and The Rose had become too large to fit out the door.
At nearly 12 feet high and in places eight inches thick, The Rose was constructed from layer upon layer of built up and scraped away black and white paint. DeFeo added mica chips to the paint and so The Rose has its own interior light.”
Margaret M. de Lange
I am finally reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. I have been wanting to read it for a while and I finally got it from the Library. It is really interesting so far. Has any one else read it? What did you think?
Oh and since it is break from my courses I have lack of reading material. Anyone know a good book that I should read?
98 year old dobri dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in the second world war, walks 10 kilometers from his village in his homemade clothes and leather shoes to the city of sofia, where he spends the day begging for money.
though a well known fixture around several of the city’s churches, known for his prostrations of thanks to all donors, it was only recently discovered that he has donated every penny he has collected — over 40,000 euros — towards the restoration of decaying bulgarian monasteries and churches and the utility bills of orphanages, living instead off his monthly state pension of 80 euros.
aaahghh my heart :’)
(Source: awkwardsituationist)
