[orbitalyear-deactivated20230513]

old gods are waking

[dragon-in-a-fez]

idea:

[day-time-dream]

[papayajuan2019]

the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

[sniperserpent]

One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told “this cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so it’s literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurements”

[bonsaisboneyard]

If you are truly interested in becoming a scientific glassblower, Salem Community College in New Jersey has a 2 year associates degree program for it, and if you actually complete it, you’re practically guaranteed a job in the field if you want one.

Scientific Glass Technology | Salem Community College

The program is amazing. I spent a year in that program before getting into an MFA program. If you really want to learn how to flamework glass, there is no better place to do so IMO.

A weird quirk about that program is that it also attracts a number of pipe makers (at least when I went there in the mid 2010s).

10/10 would definitely recommend.

[flange5]

[clawmarks]

Abraham Mignon - Flowers in a Forest Landscape - 17th c. - via Lempertz

[jareckiworld]

Manuel Amado (1938-2019) — The Kitchen [oil on canvas, 1985]

[wakingfromthewater]

Apparently seals in Aberdeen have learned to climb onto a branch and rest there

Arboreal seals

I AM LOSING! IT!!

ARBOREAL SEALS

[wakingfromthewater]

Important arboreal seal update:  We know how it gets on.

This is not an update, it just looks so beautiful.

Both photos by WildAberdeen on Instagram.

[wakingfromthewater]

Tree Seal's branch was washed away in a storm and that was the end of that... Until late June when a new challenger arose. (once again photo by wildaberdeen on IG)

[intersexelphie]

after all of the hate she’s experienced, this image of imane khelif with her gold medal is a joy to see ❤️

[troutreznor]

A&F Quarterly 2003 Back to School (The Sex Ed issue) / Slavoj Žižek

[depeshemode]

at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville rn and i’m wondering why more musicians don’t have their own restaurants. i would eat at Trent Reznor’s Tavern of Terror

[myfriendgoo94]

I wanna feed you like an animal

I wanna serve you lots of french fries

[writing-prompt-s]

Your Tumblr username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?

[moniquill]

[enchantedbook]

'Reading Moth by Candlelight' by Fritz Schwimbeck, (1889 - 1972)

[brown-scully]

going thru it and can’t act out on account of being a person with a job and sponsibilities >:(

[todaysbird]

love how every community has one guy like this

[urgetocreate]

Dmitri Cavander (American 1969), Hot Day, California Street, 2008, Oil on canvas

[proteusolm]

Crazy to think that seagulls existed before french fries.

[bluebandedagate-reblogs]

Medieval seagull struggling to fly away with an entire purloined potatoe

[whaile]

[jareckiworld]

Charles McGee (1924-2021) — Color Modules [acrylic on canvas, 1971]

[bovineblogger]

LEAPS N BOUNDS!!!!