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Tansy_Gold

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8. What's old is new, except it's not

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Sun Aug 19, 2012, 08:25 PM

Aug 2012

I love this stuff. It makes me marvel at the universality of the creative human mind and how it connects us to the past, and therefore to the future.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1577421.stm

When Pablo Picasso visited the newly-discovered Lascaux caves, in the Dordogne, in 1940, he emerged from them saying of modern art, "We have discovered nothing".

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frozen ancient Siberian woman found with awesome tattoos, container of cannabis [View all] eShirl Aug 2012 OP

Wendy O Williams R.I.P orpupilofnature57 Aug 2012 #1

I like that tattoo. Cleita Aug 2012 #2

I know! I was thinking the same thing.... eShirl Aug 2012 #4

another article (long!) on her & others found near her, from Siberian Times eShirl Aug 2012 #3

Very pretty, playful, feminine tattoo. aquart Aug 2012 #5

wow, I guess a tattoo really is "forever!!" Yahagirl Aug 2012 #6

There aren't many physical remains of the Stoner Age. n/t dimbear Aug 2012 #7

What's old is new, except it's not Tansy_Gold Aug 2012 #8

Someone call Eric Holder bleever Aug 2012 #9

That's pretty damn cool. nt OnyxCollie Aug 2012 #10

I'm not a tatoo person, but Crunchy Frog Aug 2012 #11