julieandrewss:

Colm Wilkinson + Les Misérables

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(Source: studjolras)

againstatroubledsky:

avecungrantaire:

You, at the Barricades, listen to this:
The people of Paris sleep in their beds.
You have no chance, no chance at all.
Why throw your lives away?

Who is this? If you answered “that asshole soldier that shot Gavroche” then, A. No, and B. We’re not friends. Let’s talk about this guy (who by the way is played by the wonderful and amazing and talented and somewhat scene-stealing Hadley Fraser who has played both Marius and Grantaire in different productions of Les Misérables). This National Guardsman is not an “asshole,” or a “heartless bastard,” no. Look at the shine to eyes, his expressions, listen to the desperation in his voice as he sings these lines.

Watch him after Gavroche is shot. Pay attention to how he keeps looking away as he’s pleading with the boys of the Barricade to step down, how he shakes his head rapidly, almost childishly, like someone who refuses to believe what’s happening right in front of their eyes. He doesn’t know these boys individually, but he knows they are just that: boys. Students, idealistic young men whose courage and tenacity anyone would admire, even the Guards.

And yet, this man knows that their deaths are inevitable, and that if it isn’t him to bring it about, some other unit will, and he’d be court martialed and put before a firing squad for failure to carry out a direct order. He isn’t manipulating them, he isn’t threatening or coercing them, he is genuinely pleading with Les Amis from the bottom of his heart, because there is nothing in the world he would want to do less than cut these brave young Frenchmen down in the primes of their lives.

^^ THIS.  this gave me the chills. 

Truth.

(Source: bonapartist)

bombing:

3D Paintings by Shintaro Ohata 

[Artists statement]
Shintaro Ohata is an artist who depicts little things in everyday life like scenes of a movie and captures all sorts of light in his work with a unique touch: convenience stores at night, city roads on rainy day and fast-food shops at dawn etc. His paintings show us ordinary sceneries as dramas. He is also known for his characteristic style; placing sculptures in front of paintings, and shows them as one work, a combination of 2-D and 3-D world. He says that it all started from when he wondered “I could bring the atmosphere or dynamism of my paintings with a more different way if I place sculptures in front of paintings”. Many viewers tend to assume that there is a light source set into his work itself because of the strong expression of lights in his sculpture.

Photographer Imagines What World Cities Would Look Like Without Lights

French photographer Thierry Cohen wants to show you what the cities might look like if they went dark on a clear day, and if the photographer focused on bringing out the stars. His project Darkened Cities shows recognizable cityscapes in darkness under the night sky.

To create the images, Cohen first traveled to locations that are untainted by the light pollution of large urban areas, capturing beautiful night shots of the Milky Way floating overhead.

He then combined these photographs with manipulated photographs of various cities (e.g. San Francisco, New York City, Tokyo, Rio de Janerio) to complete the effect.

fool-of-an-assbutt:

Hobbit Cast Part 1