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i12bent:

Jack London, back when life was a picnic:

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.” - Jack London

eccolo uno dei miei miti :-)

Valentin Serov: Lenin Proclaims the Victory of the Revolution

i12bent:

Nov. 22, 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel’s Boléro takes place in Paris.

The piece was indirectly commissioned by Ida Rubinstein, a Russian ballerina who asked Ravel to make an orchestral transcription of six pieces from Isaac Albéniz’ set of piano pieces, Iberia. When this project fell through Ravel instead composed a completely new piece based on the musical form and spanish dance called bolero - scoring his ‘greatest hit’ in the process…

Painting of Ida Rubinstein, by Valentin Serov, 1910. Tempera and charcoal on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

i12bent:

Here she is again:

Marilyn Monroe with poet Edith Sitwell, Hollywood, CA, US - 1953

Photographer: George Silk, LIFE

feastingonroadkill:

Anarchist Babe: Fanya Baron 188?-1921

“ Born in Russia, Fanya Anisimovna moved to the United States where she established a relationship with Aron Baron (aka Kantarovitch), who worked as a baker. She was active in the anarchist movement in Chicago, and with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). She was involved in the hunger demonstrations of 1915 there, alongside Lucy Parsons and Aron. On January 17th 1915 she led the Russian Revolutionary Chorus at a meeting addressed by Lucy Parsons and others at Hull House, established by Jane Addams to help the poor. On the demonstration outside the police viciously attacked. Plain clothes detectives used brass knuckles on the crowd, while uniformed cops struck out with billy clubs. Fanya was knocked unconscious by one of the club wielding cops. She and five other Russian women and fifteen men were arrested. Jane Addams arranged bail for Fanya, Lucy and others who were pictured in the Chicago press.

She returned to Russia with Aron and Boris Yelensky in 1917.She was active with the the Nabat Anarchist Confederation in the Ukraine between 1919 and 1920. She was arrested with many other anarchists by the Cheka at a conference held in Kharkhov on the 25th November 1920.

From spring 1921 she was at the prison at Ryazan. She escaped from there with 9 other anarchists, sprung by the Underground Anarchists - a clandestine anarchist network - on 10th July 1921. She planned to help Aron escape from prison in Moscow. She sought refuge with Aron’s brother, a member of the Bolshevik Party and was arrested by the Cheka on the 17th August at his home. It is unclear whether he betrayed her. The Cheka had planted agents among the Underground Anarchists, and arranged acts of provocation, including forgery.

Fanya was shot by the Cheka on 29th September, 1921 after having been found guilty of being an “accomplice of anti-Soviet criminal acts”.

feastingonroadkill:

Things Mr Feastingonroadkill don’t get (a continuing series)

…Why so many of the leftists on Tumblr use Macs? Shiny toys, the illusion of democracy, but tightly locked down and controlled by a secretive unaccountable elite. Basically, the Singapore of computing.

Comrades! - open source computing is a political act…