Historic Lols

I'm sure you've all heard of 'lolcats' by now: those infamous pictures of cats with humorous captions. Well, some of you may not know that besides lolcats there are many other internet "memes", as they are called. Among these are vintage and antique images with funny captions, collected here in "Historic Lols". Here are a few examples:

Hope you have a weekend full of "lols"!

On the Third Day of Christmas...

The more erudite among you will definitely enjoy today's "12 'isms' of Christmas". The less erudite will probably have to look up most of these , along with the meaning of the word "erudite". I'm just teasing - I actually had to look up a few of these myself:

(Just FYI this video does contain some strong language)


As your gift for today, I'll add an "ism" to that list: Symbolism. Hands-down, my favorite artist of this movement is Gustav Klimt. The following are photographs from "AE" magazine, via Kattaca (who I believe did the Art Direction for this shoot) on Behance Network. Click the image to see the rest of the photo shoot. They are absolutely stunning.

Klimt's original

The stunning photographic take (click for more)

Fuck you!
Nostalgically Yours