Summertime

caffeine, nature, books, dogs

[zeisenhauer]

Jackson Hole, Wyoming pronghorns

[achoirofcritters]

I can’t believe you’ve been here a year, baby boy. :)

Astaroth’s 1st Gotcha Day photos, June 2017!

[heaveninawildflower]

Lychee.

Illustration taken from ‘Flora Sinensis’ by Michel Boym ( 1612-1659 ).

Published 1656 by Typis M. Rictij.

Harvard Botany Libraries. Biodiversity Heritage Library. 

archive.org

[fanimates]

“Well, now that’s a bit more like it!”   

[oblwankenobi]

Kevin Bacon lashes sexist trend of unnecessary female nudity in cinema and television and demands more male nudity in Hollywood.

[oblwankenobi]

[smartass-stripper]

Kevin Bacon is a blessing

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[rumze]

it would funny if it didn’t hurt inside

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[lifewithdeadbirds]

There’s something a bit eerie about a jar of bats.

Like birds, bats can be preserved as specimen skins. However, the Jamaican Fruit Bats (Artibeus jamaicensis richardsoni) taken from this 1966 trip to Panama needed to make it back to North America, and it’s just more convenient to travel with a jar of weird stuff than a bag or box of fragile bat wings.

This method also keeps all of the specimens from one trip together, though it does make it a bit more messy to reach the specimen you want!

Photo credit: Ash Boudrie

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[dailyraccoons]

YES

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[doctorwhorama]

[arabellesicardi]

im the robot

[titleknown]

Again, this is even funnier if you know what a fucking production nightmare, with a possible curse attached to it no less, this robot prop was for the Doctor Who crew…

[bogleech]

I want to know about the cursed robot

[choppers-pink-hat]

So the robot isn’t a guy in a suit, it’s an animatronic/puppet thing, and it wasn’t built for the show. In fact, no one knows who built it, one of the producers just FOUND IT ONE DAY in a building near the studio. It had apparently been built for another production that was cancelled and then just left to gather dust. So they thought “oh cool, let’s make this dumb robot the Doctor’s new companion, it’ll look neat and weird, everyone will have a gas with it.” NOPE. Kamelion was incredibly complicated to operate, so they assigned a guy named Mike Powers to figure out the best way to go about it. Apparently he did a great job streamlining Kamelion’s operation, and then he promptly died in a boating accident (which is where the “curse” idea comes from.) He didn’t leave any notes or instructions, and the show was already behind schedule, so they had to rush Kamelion’s scenes into production with no idea how it worked. It was a gigantic pain in the ass to use, took forever to set up, and needed constant upkeep and repairs. Everyone hated working with the prop, to the point that before Kamelion’s first episode even aired, they had already decided to kill him off later in the same season. Peter Davison, who played the Fifth Doctor, had the most scenes with Kamelion, and absolutely hated it. When Kamelion dies, the Doctor is really sad, but Davison said later that it was one of the best acting jobs of his career, because in reality, he was absolutely giddy with joy at being rid of the thing.

tl,dr: In the 80′s a Mystery robot prop built by unknown hands caused chaos on the Doctor Who set.

[elleanneblog]

finding an abandoned mystery robot and bringing it home, leading to death, is the most doctor who plot ive ever heard

[wilwheaton]

This was no boating accident.

[cabinporn]

Russet Lake, Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia

Contributed by Pete Conway:

I just spent the night in this cabin. 

[beautiful-wildlife]

Comforting Little Owls by © Prashant Meswani

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