Words, pictures, video

[daegaer]

Hidden sheet music in Hieronymus Bosch triptych recorded by blogger
Notes written on the posterior of one of the many tortured denizens on a panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights has been composed

Victorian Valentine's Day cards - in pictures
The tradition of sending anonymous Valentine’s Day cards originated in the UK and was popularised by the

Comments

[oursin]

Don't people ever think of what might happen if you played the music from a Bosch painting???!!!

[daegaer]

"How odd, this music seems to require more fingers than a human could reasonably be expected to have - oh, now I seem to be able to play it. Oh. Oh, dear . . ."

[island_of_reil]

I am now envisioning the banjo whiz from Deliverance in a Bosch painting.

[daegaer]

Ahahaha, eep!

[lobelia321]

Bosch music wut.

Things never cease.

[daegaer]

A thing of infernal beauty!

[enigel]

Ah, this explains what read to me as a random comment about stock photos earlier in the day.

Yes, duh. So we shouldn't even try, because it doesn't have to start somewhere.

The first link, however, is One Of Those Things. (Eldritch, wriggly things, probably. No, I'm sure it's perfectly safe.)

[daegaer]

Yeah, we were talking about it in work before I read about it, with one person outraged by all the images of women laughing with salads! It's definitely time for a new foodstuff to laugh over. (And not yoghurt - I like it, but it;s just not hilarious :D)

[kryptyd]

I'm afraid to watch Oppressed Majority because I think it will depress me.

There is a great scene in Kameron Hurley's novel about a man being attacked in female dominated society. It doesn't go sexual, but there are enough hints that it might go that way to make it really horrible reading. In the end they just do plain old violence to him. It's a very well done scene. I was going "on no, oh no, oh no" the whole time reading it. Interesting when the aggressor/victim genders were switched around from what's expected.

[daegaer]

It's a very odd and unsettling experience watching the entire (short) film - the attack itself is shown only in the initial stage, and then we hear about the sexual assault when a police officer reads the victim's statement back to him, and it's clear there was a lot of violence involved, so I'm glad it wasn't shown on screen. The comments on the articles about it are predictable and seem to miss the pretty clear story-line (which is that, finally having had enough of the petty every-day sexism visited upon him and other men by the reverse-France he lives in, Pierre snaps and talks back to harassers who shift from merely rude to threatening. The final shot and voiceovers make it clear that it's commentary on male harrassment of women - and the comments are mostly about how sexist it is to show a man as so "weak" as to be overcome by multiple female attackers one of whom has a weapon . . .)