[entomologize]

Pressed flower collage of a comet moth, by Helen Ahpornsiri

[ihasafandom]

PRESSED FLOWERS???

[kevinhugs]

Sometimes ppl do stuff with art and I go "why did you.... how did you.... thank you for your esoteric and ultra specific medium art"

[fueledbystardust]

*gasp* Cereal! 😄

[whirligig-girl]

the portal 2 developers avoided making cake references in the game as shipped (with the exception of One (1) single cake related visual gag) but if portal 2 had gone in the direction it was going when that video was made (you're a new player character and you're slowly rebuilding glados in the ruined facility and meeting all sorts of personality cores) this would have been an incredible Single Cake Joke.

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

REPOST : Roman stylus 70AD, in comon vanacular translates into “i went into the city and all i bought you was this lousy pen” , link and full translation in the comments [640 x 320]

[lumpen-space-princess]

Fucking screaming, shitty souvenirs haven’t changed a bit in almost 2000 years

[ordinarytalk]

From Planet Knowledge: 

The inscription has been painstakingly examined and translated by classicist and epigrapher Dr Roger Tomlin. It reads:

‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’

‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ In other words: the stylus is a gift to remind the recipient of its sender; the sender acknowledges that it is a cheap gift and wishes that they could have given more. Its tongue-in-cheek sentiment is reminiscent of the kinds of novelty souvenirs we still give today. It is the Roman equivalent of ‘I went to Rome and all I got you was this pen’, providing a touching personal insight into the humour of someone who lived nearly 2000 years ago.

[funny-tik-toks]

[formeroklahoman]

Before camera cranes were invented, William A. Wellman pulled off this tracking shot in WINGS (1927). It was the first Best Picture Oscar winner.

[thevisualvamp]

Cinematic moments

[dollsahoy]

For everyone asking How?!?!: The camera was suspended from a track on the ceiling!

How They Filmed the Café Dolly Shot in 'Wings'

We break down how they filmed the famous dolly shot from the 1927 Best Picture winner Wings where the camera soars over cabaret tables.

And, yes, that is a wlw couple at one of the tables–this movie pre-dated the Hays Code

[a-hollow-forest]

"people show their true colours in life threatening situations" no, they show you what they act like when they're mortally terrified, an emotion notorious for literally turning your entire brain off to the point where people who go into those situations as a profession need to be literally trained on how to not have that happen

[taiey]

#god i hate any 'true colors' take so much#maybe all we are made of is facets and maybe those facets are all equally true even if they are not equally beautiful

[tamarackshack]

Took a year to complete this quilt! Pattern is by NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg called Cupola View. Fabrics used were also designed by Karen, the collection is called Earth Views.

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Earth views from the international space station

[womans-armor-workshop]

At first, I was convinced it's a stained glass panel, but it's so much more cooler.

[geeseabovecloverbelow]

Gorgeous!

[bcnmar]

Josiah William Gordon

[innovation-daughter]

[jean-doe]

[osplanetasdasabelhas]

René Lalique

Art Nouveau Jewels

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - Lisbon

photos cjmn

[bebs-art-gallery]

How Animals Mourn

Anguish by August Friedrich Schenk † The Dead Miner (Mourning the Master) by Charles Christian Nahl † The Faithful Hound by sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA † The Orphan. A Memory of Auvergne by August Friedrich Schenk

[cafeinevitable-deactivated20220]

The Life Cycle of an Apple by Yumiko Higuchi

hand embroidery

[5tn]

[thecollectibles]

Atreus & The Wolves by Vance Kovacs

[omghotmemes]

See you in 1977

[randomslasher]

It is literally impossible to pick a favorite line from this because the entire thing is gold. 

[what-the-wound-remembers]

Please Pour Some Rain! (2018) by Taiwanese textile and quilt artist, Lin Hsin-Chen (born in 1974)

[serialpoet]

[ID: an image of a quilt portraying a dandelion growing through rocks. The quilting pattern has been done in concentric circles, mimicking raindrops on a puddle or lake. End ID]

[naamahdarling]

It's a quilt!!!