a stargazer

I like to paint. I like other things, too, some of which I share here.

[eilidh]

Parting the Veil, watercolour, 2021 I keep coming back to these half-ghostly figures in the woods.

[batbcomic]

preorders are open!!

[markthompsonartist]

For Rivers to Run Through the Wood and Concrete of Floors

61 x 81cm

oil on wood

2017

This painting will soon be on show as part of the exhibition ‘Metropolis’ at the Thompson’s Gallery, London

[markthompsonartist]

to the titled…

59 x 83cm

oil on wood

March 2017

[markthompsonartist]

yet to be titled, but fresh off the brush…

45 x 61cm

oil on wood

February 2017

[opulentjoy]

The Song of the Sea, 2014 (dir. Tomm Moore)

[annadittmann]

A recent cover for Titan Comics five issue mini-series Hookjaw - the classic great white re-imagined by Si Spurrier. Something other than a human figure, oh my!

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[sosuperawesome]

Lenka Simeckova on Tumblr and Society6

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So Super Awesome is also on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest

[ifuckingloveminerals]

Amethyst

Brandberg Area, Erongo Region, Namibia

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Strengite, Phosphosiderite

Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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Strengite, Phosphosiderite

Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

[itscolossal]

Thousands of Birds Photographed Atop Snow-Laden Trees in Downtown Portland, Oregon

[archiemcphee]

The only thing better than looking at gorgeous macro photos of frozen soap bubbles is actually watching them freeze, seeing the exquisite crystal patterns growing up and around each perfect sphere, eventually covering the entire surface.

Last year photographer Paweł Załuska began filming freezing bubbles for his children, who enjoyed it so much that it’s become an annual tradition and he just posted his latest video, More Frozen Bubbles:

Here’s Załuska’s original Frozen Soap Bubbles video:

Follow Paweł Załuska on Vimeo, Instagram, or Facebook to check out more of his photos and videos.

[via Sploid]

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Winter weather in northern latitudes sometimes brings with it unusual phenomena like this ice disk spinning in the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River in Washington state. Photographer Kaylyn Messer ventured out to capture photos and videos of the event over the weekend. There are a couple theories as to how such disks form, but swirling river eddies are a key ingredient. One theory posits that chunks of ice forming on the river get caught up by the spinning eddy and slowly freeze together to form the disk. Another theory proposes that the disks occur when an existing chunk of ice breaks away, gets caught in the spinning eddy and slowly has its edges ground down into a circle. Personally, I lean toward the former explanation, though there is likely grinding at the edges either way. See more about this ice circle over at Messer’s blog.  (Image credit: K. Messer; GIF by @itscolossal; via Colossal)

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