Posted on by Erik Chipchase

wodneswynn:

neshatriumphs:

weavemama:

this woman asking an ugly ass neo nazi what it’s like to be punched in the face will forever be my mood

Antagonizing racists in person is so much more satisfying than saying anything to they stupid asses online.

This happened right here in sunny Gainesville, Florida, city of trees, city of magic. And it was beautiful.

So Dick Spencer is holding his little speaking event at the University of Florida as part of his little 2017 college tour. Like the entire town came out to give him hell about it.

This picture was taken at a bullshit angle; the auditorium was actually more than half empty. Of the people who were there, only the two front rows were actually there for the speech. Everybody else who came, came there to heckle. And heckle they did! This was just one heckle out of several hours of non-stop abuse hurled at that man. He gave about a quarter of a speech, cried on stage (on stage he was, crying), and left the event an hour early so he could sneak out of town.

And here’s what you need to understand: Dude brought a lot of friends with him, and we’d spotted strangers casing the Black and Jewish and working-class parts of town for a couple days prior, and nobody knew what to expect on the day of. On the day, I was pulling security at the infoshop downtown, and this was back when I was working overnights, so when my relief came I went and took a nap in the storage closet, 200% expecting that somebody was gonna wake me up to tell me there were boneheads trying to break down the door or something.

Instead, I woke up to laughter, because they’d set up the projector and were playing the livestream of Dick Spencer breaking down and crying on stage at his own event.

Posted on by Erik Chipchase

rowantheexplorer:

drst:

tiny-librarian:

A Pennsylvania museum has solved the mystery of a Renaissance portrait in an investigation that spans hundreds of years, layers of paint and the murdered daughter of an Italian duke.

Among the works featured in the Carnegie Museum’s exhibit Faked, Forgotten, Found is a portrait of Isabella de’Medici, the spirited favorite daughter of Cosimo de’Medici, the first Grand Duke of Florence, whose face hadn’t seen the light of day in almost 200 years.

Isabella Medici’s strong nose, steely stare and high forehead plucked of hair, as was the fashion in 1570, was hidden beneath layers of paint applied by a Victorian artist to render the work more saleable to a 19th century buyer.

The result was a pretty, bland face with rosy cheeks and gently smiling lips that Louise Lippincott, curator of fine arts at the museum, thought was a possible fake.

Before deciding to deaccession the work, Lippincott brought the painting, which was purportedly of Eleanor of Toledo, a famed beauty and the mother of Isabella de’Medici, to the Pittsburgh museum’s conservator Ellen Baxter to confirm her suspicions.

Baxter was immediately intrigued. The woman’s clothing was spot-on, with its high lace collar and richly patterned bodice, but her face was all wrong, ‘like a Victorian cookie tin box lid,’ Baxter told Carnegie Magazine.

After finding the stamp of Francis Needham on the back of the work, Baxter did some research and found that Needham worked in National Portrait Gallery in London in the mid-1800s transferring paintings from wood panels to canvas mounts.

Paintings on canvas usually have large cracks, but the ones on the Eleanor of Toledo portrait were much smaller than would be expected.

Baxter devised a theory that the work had been transferred from a wood panel onto canvas and then repainted so that the woman’s face was more pleasing to the Victorian art-buyer, some 300 years after it had been painted.

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Christ men have been Photoshopping women to make us more “pleasing” since for-fucking-ever.

Also, Isabella de’Medici is nice looking, but also has that look in her eye of all Medicis: “I haven’t yet decided whether I’m going to kick your ass, buy you and everything you own, or have sex with you. Perhaps all three.”