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Nymphomaniac’s first cast photo. 

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Talented Mr. Ripley

MY PICK FOR BEST SHOT: Reflection, shadow, broke. I love the composition and how you can encapsulate the whole movie in this shot.

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Talented Mr. Ripley

RUNNER UP: Too bright, too shining, too talented. This is what I remember everytime I think in this movie.

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Talented Mr. Ripley

RUNNER UP: Jude’s perfection. This scene was everything when I saw it in the movie theater at 15 ;)

Portraits by Mike Mitchell

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Archaeologists Unearth New Information on Origins of Maya Civilization

The Maya civilization is well-known for its elaborate temples, sophisticated writing system, and mathematical and astronomical developments, yet the civilization’s origins remain something of a mystery.

A new University of Arizona study in the journal Science challenges the two prevailing theories on how the ancient civilization began, suggesting its origins are more complex than previously thought.

Anthropologists typically fall into one of two competing camps with regard to the origins of Maya civilization. The first camp believes that it developed almost entirely on its own in the jungles of what is now Guatemala and southern Mexico. The second believes that the Maya civilization developed as the result of direct influences from the older Olmec civilization and its center of La Venta.

It’s likely that neither of those theories tells the full story, according to findings by a team of archaeologists led by UA husband-and-wife anthropologists Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan.

“We really focused on the beginning of this civilization and how this remarkable civilization developed,” said Inomata, UA professor of anthropology and the study’s lead author.

In their excavations at Ceibal, an ancient Maya site in Guatemala, researchers found that Ceibal actually predates the growth of La Venta as a major center by as much as 200 years, suggesting that La Venta could not have been the prevailing influence over early Mayan development.

That does not make the Maya civilization older than the Olmec civilization – since Olmec had another center prior to La Venta – nor does it prove that the Maya civilization developed entirely independently, researchers say.

What it does indicate, they say, is that both Ceibal and La Venta probably participated in a broader cultural shift taking place in the period between 1,150-800 B.C.

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Only God Forgives Poster

“But we went with it, you know?  We were like, “Cool, man, like, David Lynch, take us to your weird, dark world.  We’re there.”

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