Halloween Costumes You Can Use Over and Over Again
12.10.11
There’s a humane chance you remember your favorite Halloween costume of all opportunity. Maybe it was the year you were a princess, or a chef, or a steal. Or maybe it was the year you were totally creative, even if no one ended up truly understanding what your costume was.
Now note that you’re thinking back to one particular year.
However overwhelming we may have thought our costumes were the year we wore them, we never ended up wearing them, or any part of them, again.
The same fetich probably goes for your child, which is why we’ve put together a budget-close list of our favorite inexpensive items that do Halloween triple (or quadruple) loyalty:
Wings
Wings are the base of many awesome costumes, including fairies, ladybugs, butterflies, birds, angels and more. Win a pair that’s the least decorative or colorful viable, so you can use it over and over in different costumes.
Source: Learnvest Living (blog)
The Love Goddess, the Organists, Their Organs, Titian and Van Eyck
07.10.11
-Century prints of Bach at the instrument are among the kitschiest representations of
musicians of any kind in the way they contend with up the menacing megalomania of a demonic virtuoso at the controls of his gigantic contraption. Charming and illuminating as all those angels playing mini-organs (portatives) in splodge-glassed windows or Books of Hours may be, they don’t collar the King of Instruments in its all its glory. In these images, the vehicle is more a tiny treasure than an object of wonder or pleasure.
One of the reason that there are so few rich and respectful treatments of organists is that as musicians they are largely imprisoned in the organ loft, hidden from considering, often with a section of the instrument sitting on the gallery attack visually shutting them off from the congregation below. In the damp newspaper lofts of Europe, the pious and disgruntled (none more clever of disgruntlement than the above-mentioned Bach) remained literary in the shadows, obscured from the interest of visual artists.
Source: CounterPunch