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taffy
09/09/09

In reply to Saint John, The Divine
That is exactly how I wish I was spending my day.
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JerseyGrrrl
09/09/09

@taffy: Suspended amid gilded scrolls by naked children?? That can be arranged.
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LaComtesse
09/09/09

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Ooh! This is my patron saint! He's saint of writers, publishers, and theologians and his feast day is my b-day (December 27).
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la.donna.pietra
09/09/09

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Edited to remove Neko Case reference to John the *Baptist*, not John the *Evangelist*. Alas.
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KentuckyBabe
09/09/09

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that is how I want to do all of my studying from now on. Books held up by naked cherubs.

I guess my cats can fill in for now.
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la.donna.pietra
09/09/09

@KentuckyBabe: Mine mostly sit on my books. You get yours to hold books up?
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/09/09

@KentuckyBabe: Those are putti, not cherubs. Cherubs are like, God's mafia. Need someone to stand outside the garden of Eden holding a flaming sword? Get a cherub! Need a winged fat baby? Putti. I have no idea why people started conflating the two, but it annoys me because Cherubs are so friggin' cool.

/tangent
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wtfox?!
09/09/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I think the putti/cherub confusion got started in the Renaissance, when somehow "cherub" got assimilated to "fat winged baby" in Christian iconography. I imagine it had to do with either some shift in what artists felt the cherubim should represent, and so the iconography shifted as appropriate--getting rid of the multiple wings and eyes, in favor of emphasizing innocence and devotion.
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curiousgeorgiana
09/09/09

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St. John is winning this pose-off.
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jigglyball
09/09/09

@curiousgeorgiana: The babies totally lost their necks.
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JerseyGrrrl
09/09/09

@curiousgeorgiana: But WHO would win a walk-off? Answer me that. Is St. John an ambiturner??
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bluebears
09/09/09

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There's a room in the Chicago Institute of Art that is all like, ginormous, colorful, and violent religious themed paintings similar to that and I swear to god they are like the pre-cursors to comic books.
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TheUptightMidwesterner
09/09/09

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My boyfriend George Clooney is totally gonna buy this for me and it is going to hang in my mansion that I bought with all my proceeds from having been the person who actually wrote every single bestselling book ever.
*sigh*
I think I gotta go finish my TPS reports now.
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Dodgergirl
09/09/09

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I'm having a Vertigo flashback. As long as it's Saint John and not Carlotta Valdes, she's probably fine staring at it for that long.
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lamey007
09/09/09

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At my job, I stare at Bloomberg terminals all day and those could go for a cool $10-12k easy.
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jigglyball
09/09/09

@lamey007: I find the "STOP: Grammartime!" red paper stopsign that's taped to my cubicle particularly inspiring.
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boobookitteh
09/09/09

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you know what's weird? I'm an atheist, but I love religious art.
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Jenloveshercurves
09/09/09

@boobookitteh: It's okay it was meant to be beautiful and inspirational and on occasion even question religious mores of the time (Carvaggio and Michelangelo being two examples of pretty rebellious artists who questioned religion through their work). Ultimately religious art probably says more about the human condition than God. We probably don't look at religious work from ancient Greece or Rome as offensive because for the most part those religions are no longer in existence. Even though people actually worshiped those statues as representations of God.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
06/29/09

In reply to Naked Kate Moss Cheaper Than She Used To Be
Wow. These photos are almost disturbing, sort of. Because they really aren't beautiful in the normal, fluffy moddle sense. I've always thought KM was lovely, and these photos are a different view of that. Sort of a twisted view, maybe. I like them, but also find them a little scary. Not her, I mean. She's not scary. Just the photos are.
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save jinger
06/29/09

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Poor Moss. I guess nobody lichens her anymore.
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Rare Affinity
06/29/09

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Those pictures remind me of those special photos they do to show just how much sun damage a person's face has sustained. The textture of Kate's skin looks very different from the usual pictures of her, even those taken by the paps.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
06/29/09

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Awwww. It's not Kate. It's the economy.

(And the ... sun damage? WTH?)
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Diziet_Sma
06/29/09

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And?
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