Shapiku’s cuneiforms

 

An example of Babylonian text, in its original ‘cuneiform’ script from 5,000 years ago, then transliterated into our modern Latin alphabet, then translated into English. Attributed to a ‘Sapiku of Borsippa’ it is a prediction of the future. Sapiku was a 7th century BCE astrologer and priest who was an advisor to the king of that time.

Credits: The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon: Vol II and Babylonian-Assyrian Ittu [Omen] Astrology Before 550 BC via GifCities and Internet Archive, The Visual Astrology Newsletter

Love letters

 

“On ne doit jamais avoir honte de ses lettres d’amour , mais parfois de l’adresse.”
José Artur

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“One should never be ashamed of his love letters, but sometimes of the address.”
José Artur

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Credits: Lucky Home via Fidjie Fidjie, Gifs Animés: art ,humour,animaux… and Google+

Those moments

 

 

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears… in… rain.

Credits: Made by ABVH and Tumblr via Ilario (úquen), Animated Gif and Google+

So true

 

Calligraphy design – a true means of expression.

Credits: Denyse Mitterhofer via Denyse® and GIPHY

Doing her times tables

 

At first Pengpeng’s class thought she was going to crash and burn when the teacher called her up to the blackboard to write her 9x multiplication tables, but then what she did next astounded everyone.

Credits: gfycat via Tara Shalton, Reaction Gifs and Google+

Or maybe the day after

 

 

Procrastination looks so nice when in calligraphy.

Credits: Denyse Mitterhofer via Denyse® and GIPHY

Painted studies

 

 

The fancy new name for art classes.

Credits: Pencil Drawings via GifCities and Internet Archive

Disgruntled of Tunbridge Wells

 

 

The phrase “Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells” is a generic name used in the United Kingdom for a person, usually with strongly conservative political views, who writes letters to newspapers or the BBC in a tone of moral outrage. And goes through a hell of a lot of paper sheets doing so. Fight the power!

Credits: Esquire via Nikiforos Tsamouras, Senseless GIfs and Facebook

The bibliophile invertebrate

 

 

… is an avid consumer of the written word. Prose, facts and poetry. Nothing escapes the bookworm’s hunger.

Credits: Oh Yeah! Variety via GifCities and Internet Archive

Scissor siblings

 

“A mauvaise langue ,bons ciseaux (pour la couper).”
Proverbe espagnol
#artwork #VladimurKush #JoelRémy

“A bad tongue needs good scissors to cut it off” – Spanish proverb

This GIF by Joel Rémy was based on the painting “Always Together” by Russian surrealist painter Vladimir Kush. Rémy is a French GIF artist who endows movement to the works of different painters and illustrations.

Credits: Vladimir Kush via Joel Rémy, Fidjie Fidjie, Gifs Animés: art ,humour,animaux… and Google+, Google Translate, ThirdDime