goldenfools:

“I absolutely had to sacrifice my personal vanity. I’m thrilled I did that. You realise quickly that vanity can be quite worthless. When I was younger, I wasn’t sure I wanted to act because I was told it would be so hard for me, and possibly not an option at all, because of the way I looked. I leapt at the opportunity to play a character that was so outside the realms of convention. I love the part because it defies gender stereotypes and it defies aspects of femininity that always told me ‘no’.” – Gwendoline Christie for Bazaar UK (December 2014)

supersonicart:

Adam Tan, 1992 – 2014.

It is with a very sad heart that I have to report that illustrator Adam Tan has passed away at the age of 22.  Tan was a brilliantly gifted illustrator from Auckland, New Zealand.  His art showed both the grace of beauty and the darkness underneath which Tan displayed through surreality, science fiction and great depths of imagination.  What gifts he would have given us to view will surely be missed but the beauty that he did gift should not be forgotten.  Thank you Adam.  (News source: New Zealand News; Henry Christian Slane)