On the Brink

This famous stunt in the movie was actually built around what went wrong with the original stunt. Keaton intended to leap from one building onto the roof of another building, but he fell short, smashing into the brick wall and falling into a net off-screen. He was injured badly enough to be laid up for three days. But when he saw the film (his camera operators were instructed to always keep filming, no matter what happened), he not only kept the mishap, he built on it, adding the fall through three awnings, the loose downspout that propels him into the firehouse, and the slide down the fire pole. (The Three Ages - 1923)

This famous stunt in the movie was actually built around what went wrong with the original stunt. Keaton intended to leap from one building onto the roof of another building, but he fell short, smashing into the brick wall and falling into a net off-screen. He was injured badly enough to be laid up for three days. But when he saw the film (his camera operators were instructed to always keep filming, no matter what happened), he not only kept the mishap, he built on it, adding the fall through three awnings, the loose downspout that propels him into the firehouse, and the slide down the fire pole. (The Three Ages - 1923)

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Frauenkirche Interior, Dresden (via by *pingallery)

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Jupiter over Ephesus

Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)

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Traveling in Morocco with my boyfriend—the entrance of Palais Bahia in Marrakesh. On the way in the cat seemed a bit defensive, but when leaving it had fallen asleep

Photograph by Diana Lovring (Fredericia, Denmark), January 2011, Marrakesh, Morocco

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