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Black Ajax

The above lithograph, by Theodore Gericault in 1818 is called The Boxers. It depicts the December 1810 fight between English champion Tom Cribb versus freed American slave Tom Molineaux. How well known was it? Both boxers are in the Boxing Hall of Fame and it was well known enough to capture the imagination of [...]

Sistine Chapel

Take a 3D look at The Sistine Chapel

h/t: Instapundit

Raiders of the Lost Archive

one more from the Everything is a Remix guy.

Clips from 30 different movies from 1919-1973 used in Raiders… old hat to pros probably… interesting to me.

Art Deco Superheroes

Abyssinia Gotham. You’ve given this shamus the kiss off for the last time.

Here’s some pretty cool renderings of various superheroes in art deco style by Gregoire Guillemin.

h/t: JJ.

Wednesday Open Thread

Adoration of the Magi by Gaspare Diziani

Just in time for Holiday Shopping!

Get yours from Ranger UP!

These Babies Are Breathtaking!

Ugly Renaissance Babies… babies so ugly they have to be shared. Art — like life — is filled with some ugly babies.

h/t: JJ

Have a Guinness

When I was kid I loved the Guinness Book of World Records… it’d still be kinda cool to be in unless it was being one of the world’s fattest twins on mopeds… NOT cool. Anyway… the above video is of the world’s largest 3D street art piece commissioned by Reebok and it IS cool.

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Ye Olde Gangsta

Was William Shakespeare a badass leg breaker? Perhaps… especially given the sketchy nature of theater folk (sorry E! ) throughout history. From Smithsonian Magazine:

Certainly, Will’s other associates seem to have been no more salubrious that Langley and Gardiner. Wayte was described in another legal case as a “loose person of no reckoning or [...]

Tuesday Open Thread

This is monumentally kewl…

Unveiled on 11 NOV at Ground Zero, this statue commemorates the Special Forces Soldiers who first took the fight to the enemy in Afghanistan in 2001.

Gathering Up the Smooth Stones

Bernini’s David

It seems that Belmont Abbey College, a small Catholic college, is gearing up for a fight against Obamacare and the arrogance of its namesake and its main cheerleader — Kathleen Sebelius:

Early last month, President Obama bragged to a St. Louis crowd about the recent Health and Human Services’ regulations that will require [...]

Occupy Reality

 

(h/t Tink in Cali and The Jawa Report)

Be It Ever So Haughty There’s No Place Like Rome

Could a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) destroy the Roman Empire ca. 23 AD? Read all about it on Reddit — or a subReddit by user Prufrock451 aka James Erwin. Here’s a story from yesterday’s Popular Mechanics on Erwin and his concept.

James Erwin was browsing reddit.com on his lunch break when a thread piqued [...]

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Obamanible Obamanomics

Artwork, concept and idea by Threedonia commenter, JimmyC.  Check out his flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55055609@N08/6286057459/