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Disney Dream Portraits. Ching Shih. Ching Shih Ching Shih (1775–1844)[1] (simplified Chinese: 郑氏; traditional Chinese: 鄭氏; pinyin: Zhèng Shì; Cantonese: Jihng Sih; "widow of Zheng"), also known as Cheng I Sao (simplified Chinese: 郑一嫂; traditional Chinese: 鄭一嫂; pinyin: Zhèng Yī Sǎo; Cantonese: Jihng Yāt Sóu; "wife of Zheng Yi"), was a prominent pirate in middle Qing China, who terrorized the China Sea in the early 19th century. She commanded over 300 junks manned by 20,000 to 40,000 pirates[2] another estimate has Cheng's fleet at 1800 and crew at about 80,000[3][4]— men, women, and even children. She challenged the empires of the time, such as the British, Portuguese and the Qing dynasty.

Undefeated, she would become one of China and Asia's strongest pirates, and one of world history's most powerful pirates. She was also one of the few pirate captains to retire from piracy. She is featured in numerous books, novels, video games and films. Early life[edit] Marriage to Zheng Yi[edit] Ascension to Leadership[edit] The Code[edit] Will You Marry Me? It’s not a get-down-on-one-knee-in-public proposition, but I think it still counts as a public proposition, no? Out there for all the world to see, open to well wishes and ridicule and all? Regardless of unconventional format, though, I’m genuinely asking: will you? Just so you know, I’m not asking because I’ve got this dream wedding fantasy with swans and confetti in mind (though why not, we might as well go all out). I’ve actually always been terrified of getting married because I’ve seen so many people I love go through painful divorces and also the last thing I’ve ever wanted to do was be attached to someone, but you’re different.

You’ve always been different. I think we could make this work. Everything feels like something with you, does that make sense? I don’t feel like I’m pretending. I want that conversation forever. I don’t know if we’ll ever have kids or a house but we’ll have adventures. It won’t always be easy but we’ll always be laughing. I guess that’s it. 9 Mind-Blowing Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down.

Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life. But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely rocked my world and redefined reality forever. The world now seems to be a completely different one than the one I lived in about ten years ago, when I started looking into the mechanics of quality of life.

It wasn’t the world (and its people) that changed really, it was how I thought of it. Maybe you’ve had some of the same insights. Or maybe you’re about to. 1. The first time I heard somebody say that, I didn’t like the sound of it one bit. I see quite clearly now that life is nothing but passing experiences, and my thoughts are just one more category of things I experience.

If you can observe your thoughts just like you can observe other objects, who’s doing the observing? 2. Of course! 3. 4. 5. Yikes. 6. 7. 8. 9. Underwater Photos That Mimic the Look of Baroque Paintings. Hawaii-based photographer Christy Lee Rogers specializes in creating dreamlike photos of people underwater. Her project Reckless Unbound shows people swirling around one another while wearing colorful outfits. The photos are reminiscent of the paintings of old Baroque masters, who would often paint people floating around in heavenly realms. Rogers creates her photos in swimming pools at night. The scenes are illuminated with bright off-camera lights, and the shoots often last two to four hours each. GUP Magazine writes, Christy Lee Rogers reshapes the boundaries between contemporary photography and painting, with her series Reckless Unbound. You can see more of her work over on her website. Reckless Unbound by Christy Lee Rogers (via My Modern Met) Image credits: Photographs by Christy Lee Rogers.

6 Documentaries That’ll Make You Feel FEELINGS. You know those moments when your own life is unfolding in a decent, healthy way, but you’re kind of addicted to ~EMOTION~ so you seek out secondhand stimuli to consume for the purposes of feeling alive? I was in one of those moods last night, so I took to Twitter to ask for some tear-inducing movie recommendations. Someone suggested I check out A Very Long Engagement, which I did, except it turns out I watched the wrong one (the one referred to me is a French film, I ended up with a documentary about a 42-year-long lesbian relationship).

I was happy with the mistake, though — nothing makes me feel quite like a documentary. 1. [youtube 2. [youtube 3. [youtube 4. [youtube 5. [youtube 6. [youtube What documentaries give you the feels? The Savage Eye: Aesthetics After 9/11. The reflexive habit — reflexive, at least, in these United States — of falling back on the mythic languages of Hollywood and Madison Avenue when we’re narrating our lives is a fact of life in the Society of the Spectacle. In his essay “This is Not a Movie,” the New Yorker critic Anthony Lane noted TV commentators’ tendency, on 9/11, to resort “to a phrase book culled from cinema: ‘It was like a movie.’

‘It was like Independence Day. ‘It was like Die Hard.’ ‘No, Die Hard 2.’ Apparently, even the severe-clear horrors of 9/11 weren’t immune to the Stepfordization all around us — the replacement of the immediate by the mediated, the physical thing by its filmic image. Yet the ontological vertigo caused by the destabilization of the Real is nothing compared to the moral nausea we feel when filmic images insinuate themselves between us and our visceral reactions to real-life horrors, refracting other peoples’ agonies — and, sometimes, our own — through an aesthetic prism. Projects | 1999 | Conversations | Kara Walker. 21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity. Heavens (World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings) Views of the Universe The Emperor's Astronomy The "Emperor's Astronomy"(dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) elegantly depicts the cosmos and heavens according to the 1400-year-old Ptolemaic system, which maintained that the sun revolved around the earth.

By means of hand-colored maps and moveable paper parts (volvelles), Petrus Apianus (1495-1552) laid out the mechanics of a universe that was earth- and human-centered. Within three years of Apianus's book, this view was challenged by Copernicus's assertion that the earth revolved around the sun, making this elaborate publication outdated. Popular Sixteenth-Century Scientific Work Cosmographia (1524) by German mathematician Petrus Apianus (1492-1552) provides a layman's introduction to subjects such as astronomy, geography, cartography, surveying, navigation, and mathematical instruments. Petrus Apianus and Gemma Frisius. A Heliocentric Cosmos Chinese Armillary Sphere Yu Tu Bei Kao Quan Shu. Ancient Chinese Concept of Change M. Plan 9.001. Brain Pickings. The Nicest Place on the Internet.

The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society. LOVE IS ART KIT | Couples Art Kit, Lovemaking Art Kit. See the Bigger Picture Album. ARCHIPELAGO CINEMA. Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Redefining the outdoor cinema, is architect Ole Scheeren. His vision was to build a giant floating cinematic auditorium, where? Not in a parking lot, not on top a fancy building, not on the roof of a pub, but in the oceanic setting of Yao Noi, Thailand.

The thought of watching films here seemed surprising: A screen, nestled somewhere between the rocks. Ole Scheeren, 2012 Would like to go here. Floating Auditorium by Ole ScheerenFilm on the Rocks Yao Noi, 2012 Curated by Tilda Swinton and Apichatpong Weerasethakul Via Deleteyourself. The Situationist. Situationist International. Frida Kahlo & contemporary thoughts by Daniela Falini. Emile Zola. Banksy. Principia Discordia | the book of Chaos, Discord and Confusion | Fnord! Home Page.