Roads and paths pervade our literature,
poetry, artwork, linguistic expressions and music. Even photographers
can’t keep their eyes (and lenses) off of a beautiful road or path,
which is why we collected this list of 28 amazing photos of paths. Source: boredpanda
Autumn In The White Carpathians
Rhododendron Laden Path, Mount Rogers, Virginia, USA
‘The sand storm was kicking up so hard, and I just remember laying there, buried waist deep in all this gear, I remember I was inside the helmet, and I just had this great moment of gratitude. What a privilege it was to be able to be there playing this guy, with the calibre of people I was working with. I just say ‘Wow man, what a cool deal. What a cool suit, what a great crew, what a blast. Tony Stark.’ – Robert Downey Jr – Iron Man Behind the Scenes
“It’s important to be grateful for what you’ve been given, Chris.”
“I think so too! It really cultivates an upbeat spirit. I think it makes you a better person.”
“Also if you complain, the Disney snipers get you.”
European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, the first
Italian woman in space, took a moment to celebrate Captain Janeway at
around 250 miles above Earth. (CNET) (twitter)
i bet someone else has already posted this by now but i thought it was really cool bc now we officially have had a cosplay selfie in space lmao
also apparently this marks the first time a star trek uniform’s actually been worn in space i heard??? which is also awesome
She did it again today! Also, in the picture she’s drinking coffee brewed with an espresso machine specifically engineered to work on the International Space Station – the ISSpresso (made in Italy!).
The most amusing thing about this is that, at current launch prices, it costs in the neighbourhood of $4000 per pound to send stuff to the International Space Station. Eyeballing that uniform’s weight at about two pounds, this means that before Ms. Cristoforetti could take cosplay selfies on the ISS, she first had to propose to her nation’s space agency, with a straight face, that they should approve an extra eight grand to send that uniform up there with her in the first place – and that they agreed that this was, in fact, an appropriate use of their funding.
“My grandmother wove in me a tapestry that was impossible to unwind,” Vigo said. “Since then, I’ve dedicated my life to the sea, just as those who have come before me.”
Like the 23 women before her, Vigo has never made a penny from her work. She is bound by a sacred ‘Sea Oath’ that maintains that byssus should never be bought or sold.
Instead, Vigo explained that the only way to receive byssus is as a gift. […]
“Byssus doesn’t belong to me, but to everyone,” Vigo asserted. “Selling it would be like trying to profit from the sun or the tides.”
More recently, a Japanese businessman approached Vigo with an offer to purchase her most famous piece, ‘The Lion of Women’, for €2.5 million. It took Vigo four years to stitch the glimmering 45x45cm design with her fingernails, and she dedicated it to women everywhere.
“I told him, ‘Absolutely not’,” she declared. “The women of the world are not for sale.”
House Windsor: Take note. A challenger approaches.
Schoolgirl discovers ‘Excalibur’ sword in lake from Arthur legend
A schoolgirl will have quite a story to tell when she returns to the classroom – after discovering a sword in the same lake King Arthur’s legendary Excalibur was thrown.
Matilda Jones, aged seven, from Doncaster, found the sword when she was paddling in Dozmary Pool, in Cornwall with her dad, Paul.
Paul, aged 51, had told Matilda and her sister Lois, four, about the legend of King Arthur on their journey to the lake.
He said: “It was a blistering hot day and Matilda asked if we could go for a paddle.
“She was only waist deep when she said she could see a sword.
“Strange women lyin’ in ponds…” and other Dennis the Anarcho-cynical (not a typo) Mud-Farmer quotes notwithstanding, I’d like to think the Lady of the Lake would select the new “Rightwise King(Monarch) Born of All England” by providing something better than a mass-produced and discontinued Spanish SLO.
Maybe this was a trial (though not dry) run – if so, Matilda and her Dad should get back to Cornwall / Kernow ASAP.
Although
on second thoughts, last time a Matilda laid claim to the English
throne there was civil war and anarchy. In fact there was THE Anarchy, which made for a good novel by George Shipway (”Knight in Anarchy”, what a surprise) but by all accounts wasn’t a lot of fun otherwise.
(The “rightwise king born of all England” business was on the Sword in the Stone (and anvil, everyone forgets the anvil) which apparently wasn’t Excalibur at all. A war memorial, perhaps, as T. H. White suggested. What the Lady of the Lake was waving about was a different sword entirely, and the really important bit was its scabbard, which granted invulnerability, or undefeatability, or a reliable broadband signal 24/7…)
Maybe the one in Dozmary Pool was lost during some Arthurian re-enactment – or maybe it was deliberately chucked away by someone who’d hoped for something better on their birthday, because when I saw what Matilda found…
…I recognised it as this…
…from here.
Noble Collection sells movie merchandise nowadays, but back then they sold decorative wall-hangers (SLOs – sword-like objects – is the less kindly term) made by Marto of Toledo among others, with frequently-spiky fantasy blades, ornate cast pot-metal handles and ooh-shiny! gold plating. However their version of “Excalibur" – it’s there on the cover – looked sensible enough to feature in the TV movie “The Librarian”.
Though the catalogue calls the
sword found by Matilda
a “medieval two handed sword” it’s based, more or less, on a Renaissance “Federschwert” sparring blunt (the flare above the guard was balance-compensation for not having a full-width blade.)
Here’s a real one.
Not especially Arthurian, whether Arthur was Clive Owen’s Romano-Sarmatian, Oliver Tobias’s Dark Age Celt or Nigel Terry’s High Middle Ages Anglo-Brit.
Apparently there are now also synthetic Federschwert from various sources.
At least they won’t rust when chucked into ponds. The Lady of the Lake likes low maintenance as much as anyone else…
…A little while before dinnertime this groan of “Oh, GAWD” came
from upstairs. Then the sounds of the bookshelves being ransacked, and
more mutters of “Why couldn’t it have been something nice in the water for her…”
(sigh) Another day in Sword Central.
sword tumblr lies sleeping beneath the hills, awaiting a time of great need
listen i’m not out to ruin fun and jokes by reblogging this version, i’m mostly just impressed that someone recognized this one specific manufacture of a prop sword
knitting in the dark 