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nocternity: Bas Jan Ader, 1970

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:00:44 -0400

nocternity:

Bas Jan Ader, 1970

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Backstage at Dries Van Noten

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Backstage at Dries Van Noten

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menstrualpsyche: Jessica Stam inTapanga Rose shot by Steven...

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:30:38 -0400

menstrualpsyche:

Jessica Stam inTapanga Rose shot by Steven Meisel for Vogue italia September 2003

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tea-and-skeletons: In 1776, while America was declaring its...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:31:05 -0400

tea-and-skeletons:

In 1776, while America was declaring its independence from England, and bodies were piling up in the American revolutionary war, a priest and grave digger in the small Polish town of Czermna, (a kilometer to the north of Kudowa Zdroj) were also busy piling up bodies, but for a very different purpose.

Within the modest looking St. Batholomew’s Church (also called the Kaplica Czazek) are the skulls and bones of over 3000 people, decorating the ceiling and walls, and arranged in various patterns — mostly in a repeating crossed bones Jolly Roger style — with another 21,000 skeletons stuffed in the church crypt below. Collected by Czech priest Vaclav Tomasek and J. Langer, the local grave digger, it took the pair some 18 years, from 1776 to 1804, to collect, clean and arrange the as many as 24,000 human skeletons that pack the church. While the majority of the skeletons are stacked in 16 foot deep crypt beneath the church, the rest are beautifully displayed in what Tomasek saw as a “sanctuary of silence.”

The two had plenty to choose from in terms of raw materials. The Thirty Years War, the Seven Years War, and numerous other skirmishes between Catholic, Hussite and Protestants, Poles, Czech and Germans that bordered the area, left mass graves aplenty, not to mention the Cholera epidemics that routinely killed hundreds in the area. Tomasek apparently found the mass graves by watching where local dogs went to dig for bones.

As the two uncovered and cleaned the thousands of skeletons, the priest and grave digger set aside skulls of interest for display in the church. Today the skulls are still displayed and include a Tartar warriors skull, the Czermna mayor and his wife, skulls with bullet holes, a skull Swiss-cheesed by syphilis, and even the skull of a giant. Besides these special skulls are those of the priest and the grave digger themselves, presiding proudly over the Chapel of Skulls they created and now call their final resting place.

A trapdoor to the crypt below can be opened to reveal the other 21,000 skeletons stacked just below. There is a recording in the church that explains the history of the Chapel but so far it is only available in Polish, Czech and German.

gothiccharmschool: Anjelica Huston, gorgeous as always.

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:01:32 -0400

gothiccharmschool:

Anjelica Huston, gorgeous as always.

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darksilenceinsuburbia: Dorothée...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:30:48 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Dorothée Smith.

http://dorotheesmith.net/

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