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Steven gave me the most amazing note, actually. He said, give me your war face, and the camera’s gonna move across. And as you feel it come up in front of you, I want you to de-age yourself by 20 years. So you’re 29, and then when you see those machine guns, you’re nine years old. I want to see the child in you. And I just thought that was one of the most astonishing acting notes I’d ever been given.
- Tom HiddlestonThis was one of the most real parts of the film to me, and one of the few rare instances when it actually felt like maybe the pointless loss of millions of human lives was more important than one damn horse.
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Marina Abramovic and her lover/collaborator Ulay performing “Death Self”. This performance consisted of the two artists seated in front of each other, connected at the mouth. They took in each other’s breaths until all of their available oxygen had been used up. The performance lasted only 17 minutes, resulting in both artists collapsing unconscious to the floor, having filled their lungs with carbon dioxide. This personal piece explored the idea of an individual’s ability to absorb the life of another person, exchanging and destroying it.
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FALLSCHIRMJÄGER GIVEAWAY! FALLSCHIRMJÄGER GIVEAWAY!
To celebrate how many of you chuckleheads follow my goofy ass, and because I am in a generous mood I decided to have a Fallschirmjäger Giveaway!Reblog this once, and that is all it takes to enter you into winning the following:
Franz Kurowski’s JUMP INTO HELL (A great general history of the Fallschirmjäger with extra attention paid to The Battle of Crete)
Volker Greisser’s Lions of Carentan (the history of the Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6, the same unit that fought the ‘Brothers in the Band’ in Carentan as well as the very unit I reenact)
Replica Fallschirmschützenabzeichen (Fallschirmjäger jump badge, this was a symbol of pride for the elite of the elite)
Replica Luftwaffe shoulder-boards (in the proper ‘Waffenfarbe” for pilots and Fallschirmjäger)
Replica Luftwaffe Officers breast eagle(As seen on the many officers who served with distinction and honor in the many Luftwaffe units)The Winner will be announced on Saturday, March 31, 2012!
*The drawing will actually be done at random. All the names will be written down on paper, folded and put in an M38 Springerhelm, and drawn. The name drawn will be the winner, and the winner takes all.*HORRIDO TREUE UM TREUE!
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life:
At the end of his shoot with artist Salvador Dali — a session that took six hours and 28 throws (of water, a chair, and three cats):
“My assistants and I were wet, dirty and near complete exhaustion. The resulting image, with a leaping Dali in midair amid the madness, is a portrait as kinetic and surreal as artist’s own work.”
— photographer Philippe Halsman
(see more — The 75 Best LIFE Photos)
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He had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire. She is pregnant.
The firefighter was afraid of her at first, because he had never been around a Doberman before. When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat down to catch his breath and rest.
A photographer from the Charlotte, North …Carolina newspaper, “The Observer,” noticed this red Doberman in the distance looking at the fireman. He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do. As he raised his camera, she came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives of her babies, and kissed him, just as the photographer snapped this photograph….
