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filmprojections: “We live in the trenches out there. We fight....

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:32:25 -0400

filmprojections:

“We live in the trenches out there. We fight. We try not to be killed, but sometimes we are. That’s all.”

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Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:14:11 -0400

rhea137: ‘The Headless Horseman’ (via Kintzertorium) Equestrian...

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:31:57 -0400

rhea137:

‘The Headless Horseman’ (via Kintzertorium)

Equestrian portrait known as ‘The Headless Horseman’: a man, whose face has been completely erased, in armour and sash, holding stick, with page standing on the right, and battle scene in the background, in an ornate frame.

Engraving made by Pierre Lombart after Anthony van Dyck, France, 1655.

► This print is celebrated for the number of transformations that it underwent over a period of many years. G.S.Layard wrote an entire book about it under the title ‘The Headless Horseman’, in 1922, in which he identified seven states. In the first the horseman is Cromwell; in the second there is no head; in the third and fourth he is transformed into Louis XIV; in the fifth he is Cromwell again; in the sixth he is Charles I, and in the seventh again Cromwell. The British Museum possesses impressions of each of Layard’s states except the first.

► In fact there is an even earlier state, of which a photograph was presented to the BM by Professor W.C.Abbott in 1932. The lettering reads: ‘Oliverius Magnae Britanniae Hiberniae et totius Anglici imperii Protector. Hanc summi et toto terrarum orbe celeberrimi herois effigiem Supremo suae celsitudinis Consilio DDD Petrus Lombardus.’ Under the horse’s hoof is ‘P.Lombart sculpsit’. It may be doubted whether even this really was the first state, for Cromwell’s head has certainly been re-engraved.
The lettering makes it clear that it was Lombart who dedicated the print to the Council. Piper noted an entry in the State Papers for July 1655, when Lombart was paid £20 for ‘presenting several portraits of his Highness to the Council’. He linked this with the print of Cromwell with a page, but it fits better with this plate.

► It was Cromwell’s death and the subsequent collapse of the Commonwealth in 1660 that led to the subsequent transformations. The first of them seems to have been made by Lombard himself, who took the plate with him to France, but the later states are after his death and were made to cater to the curiosity of print collectors. The original copper plate found its way to the Stirling collection of Keir in Scotland, and now belongs to the same collector as has lent this impression.

► The design is cribbed by Lombart from an equestrian portrait of Charles I by van Dyck. The autograph is now in the Royal collection, but it is very likely that Lombart used the version that is now at Petworth. In the 1650s it was in Northumberland House in London, and an inventory shows that ‘the face was not finished’ at that time. Robert Walker, with whom Lombart was closely associated, did not hesitate to use van Dyck in the same way. When asked ‘why he did not make some of his own postures, says he, if I could get better I would not do Vandikes. He would not bend his mind to make any postures of his own’.

► Piper unfortunately omitted the engravings in his study of the portraits of Cromwell in the Walpole Society, and it is difficult to understand the sequence of their production. Some prints seem to have been lost completely. On 5 March 1657, William Gilbertson entered in the Stationers Register ‘The portrature of his highnesse, Oliver, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland in a knot, 1 large sheet’. This has not been identified.

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Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:26:02 -0400

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Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:46:53 -0400

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usagov: Image description: Aircraft maneuvers during an...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:16:41 -0400

usagov:

Image description: Aircraft maneuvers during an airpower demonstration.

Photo by Official U.S. Navy Imagery on Flickr.

soldierporn: Illegal adventures on a Reserve training...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:38:02 -0400

soldierporn:

Illegal adventures on a Reserve training base. From top:

Pretty birds, all in a row.

Aeronautics museum display, decommissioned Cobra.

Blackhawks sitting on the tarmac.

Military jargon. Translation: “Stop photographing.”

Lots of runway space. And the divot in the mountains that gives the base its name.

DEMOiii is the unmanned rover unit being tested in the nearby valley.

A meander down an ‘unimproved road’ along the ridge line — a tank trail.

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Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:49:30 -0400

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:19:08 -0400

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Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:35:01 -0400

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Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:05:16 -0400

soldierporn: Rest in peace, brave souls. 31 US Special Forces...

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:13:43 -0400

soldierporn:

Rest in peace, brave souls.

31 US Special Forces troops and 7 Afghan National Army forces died in a Chinook crash, early morning August 6th.

Full news article link here.

(Photo source Military News Network, DoD)

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Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:33:03 -0400

fameandthebeast: This deserves a million reblogs <3 I don’t...

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:31:23 -0400

fameandthebeast:

This deserves a million reblogs <3

I don’t usually reblog millitary stuff, but this is so beautiful. It’s one of the products of war that I never think about.

this is a memorial to all the dogs who died helping us, humans.

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Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:30:48 -0400

fuckyeahusarmedforces: The A/OA-10 Thunderbolt II is the first...

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:41:45 -0400

fuckyeahusarmedforces:

The A/OA-10 Thunderbolt II is the first Air Force aircraft specially designed for close air support of ground forces. They are simple, effective and survivable twin-engine jet aircraft that can be used against all ground targets, including tanks and other armored vehicles.

The A-10/OA-10 have excellent maneuverability at low air speeds and altitude, and are highly accurate weapons-delivery platforms. They can loiter near battle areas for extended periods of time and operate under 1,000-foot ceilings (303.3 meters) with 1.5-mile (2.4 kilometers) visibility. Their wide combat radius and short takeoff and landing capability permit operations in and out of locations near front lines. Using night vision goggles, A-10/ OA-10 pilots can conduct their missions during darkness.

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Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:52:55 -0400

I’ll start tumbling cool soldierporn pics here. This is where I throw stuff for Freia’s tumblr that Amara finds and doesn’t want in the hottie tumblrs. Kind of a bridge the gap tumblr type thing.

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Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:23:16 -0500

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