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Hayravank, Gegharkunik Province, Armenia

Evgeny Matveev

#Armenia #church #architecture #landscapes #sevan #lakes #blue #green

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Sisters of the Solstice. Sweden, 1975. Rumors swirled for centuries about a secretive community of women who harnessed the power of the Solstice for dark magic that granted them eternal life. Hushed whispers called them a coven of witches and warned of ritual sacrifice, cannibalism, walking dead, communications with the devil, and a bloodlust towards any man who would dare enter their territory… but was any of it true? By the 20th century, the Sisters had long been relegated to a dusty old myth, until photographer Sera Clairmont published these photos in her Spectagoria magazine.

Clairmont gave sparse details about her time with the Sisters of the Solstice, saying she was only given access to their rituals under a vow of secrecy. “These women have only ever asked for privacy,” she wrote, “and because they protect that fiercely, they are called evil. Are they practitioners of magick? Certainly. They give themselves to the earth, and the earth returns them to life. One cannot make such exchanges without sacrifice, but that is their way. Many generations ago, these women turned to the dark arts for protection when the world of men would offer them none. Men hurt them, so they adapted to survive. That the Sisters found the devil a safer bedfellow says more about men than it does about the Sisters. And as the soil grows their bodies anew, Midsommar after Midsommar, don’t be surprised if Mother Earth is taking notes. After all, who has a world of men hurt more than she?”

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NOTE: This is a work of fiction created by me. This alternate reality horror story is part of my NightmAIres narrative art series (visit that link for a lot more). NightmAIres are windows into other worlds and interconnected alternate histories, conceived/written by me and visualized with synthography and Photoshop.

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#rob sheridan #ai horror #ai art #synthography #ai photography #summer solstice #writing #spectagoria #sera clairmont #art direction #rituals #fairytales #skulls #witchcraft #style

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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚒̈𝚜 𝙽𝚒𝚗 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟿𝟼𝟼)

#anais nin #quotes #life #surrealism #gold

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“Deep in the Icelandic highlands, the earth looked back.” Hverir by Andri Jónasson

#andri jónasson #iceland #blue #nature #landscape #surreal #water #eyes #aerial

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instagram.com/p/BnHVygeH-gd/

#flowers #berries #food #macro #still life #pink #night #fruits #roses

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SVIN : How deep is your love

Performance by: Rasmus Bak & Ingrid-Marie Thorlacius

Made by: Søren Lundvall Danielsen & Simon Kjær Christiansen

#svin #music videos #violence #birds #headless #head #bullying #Rasmus Bak #Ingrid-Marie Thorlacius #Søren Lundvall Danielsen #Simon Kjær Christiansen #Youtube

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R.I.P Tina Turner

#tina turner #film #cinema #scene #post-apocalyptic #chainmail

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By Pavel Kharatyan For Elle Russia October 2021

#fashion #female #pavel kharatyan #armenia #carpet #rug #embroidery #patterns #fur

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Haider Ackermann spring/summer 2010

#haider ackermann #fashion #dress #skin #hands #lines

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'Hamlet and the Ghost' by Frederick James Shields, (1863 - 1919)

#Frederick James Shields #Hamlet #shakespeare #blue #moon #night #ghosts #illustrations #beach #coast #water #moonlight

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#moon #pyramid #giza #egypt #symbols #celestial #silhouette #style #geometry

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Purple harlequin toads (Atelopus barbotini)

#toads #forest #green #blue #details #amphibians #patterns

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Valentino FW/13

#female #fashion #dress #fabric #sheer #seethrough #blue #drapery #embroidery

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Bella Hadid closed Coperni ss23 in a spray-on dress, created and developed by Fabrican, a company founded by Spanish fashion designer and scientist Manel Torres. ★ Fabrican liquid contains cotton or synthetic fibres that then evaporates when it comes into contact with the body. This solution can be removed and turned back into a solution and reused again.

#fashion #science #dress #bella Hadid #spray paint #manel torres #fabrican #surreal

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Nine Inch Nails' And All That Could Have Been DVD, released on this day in 2002. I found a folder of raw screengrabs from 2001, during the editing process, where some of the footage was still interlaced from the consumer DV cameras I filmed on in 2000. Here are some enlarged details, which have a phenomenal early-digital texture to them now, and it’s remarkable to see the resolution we were working with to put that film together (these were direct TIFF frame outputs from FCP - all the compression you see in here is from the camera!)

I always loved the way interlaced frames digitally ripped an image apart, and it inspired me in the creation of the “With Teeth” visual aesthetic a couple years later. In 2004, as the prosumer digital video world was continuing the clunky transition away from interlacing, I discovered the first version of Apple’s Motion software did not know what to do with interlaced footage, and would in fact render the interlacing as part of the video when you zoomed into it. That happy glitch accident formed the aesthetic foundation of the video for “The Hand That Feeds.”

#glitch #nine inch nails #rob sheridan #trent reznor #distortion #interlacing #music video

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Lena Achtelik

#lena achtelik #style #horror #black #hands #ghosts #family #portraits

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🌞☕️

#food #still life #steam #smoke #chocolate #cookies