cultural compost

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[nevver]

Happy Easter

[iamjapanese]

Elke Thönnes（German）

Socrates  Photo-etching & embossing printed on BFK Rives grey paper   via

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I hate to pick on nerds, geeks, doofuses, and sundry other dweebs, but this guy…sweet three-toed sloth of ice planet Hoth. There isn’t a single thing about which this dingus isn’t a four-eyed loser-bot. Were he here, now, I would deliver unto him some truly hurtful and curated ribbings.

http://www.reocities.com/Area51/3761/

Be sure to check out the page he maintained with his wife, and then, if you dare, delve into the hellish exhibition that is their honeymoon photo album.

[white-rex]

Remembering May 1945 - Twilight of the Gods.

Photo #1: Reichstag building in Berlin vandalized by soviet soldiers.

Photo #2: Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig destroyed by U.S. soldiers.

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[terrysdiary]

Detail of Kiva Lodge

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

We close pollinator week with this animated tribute to the bees, bugs, birds, bats, and others who make life a little sweeter.

Original from Maria Sibylla Merian’s Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung , 1730

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RED FEATHER LODGE

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Thunderbird RESTAURANT

[teamcoco]

Conan Steals Big Tex’s Boots

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The original Ghost Rider from 1950.

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MALCOLM X AND MUHAMMAD ALI

circa 1963

[themarvelwayoflife]

Marvel Treasury Special. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1976) by Jack Kirby.

[surrealappeal]

Giorgio de Chirico, The Melancholy of Departure, 1916.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Do the funky chicken! Or, more aptly, Englischer Kampfhahn, aka the English gamecock.

From Abbildungen von Vogel-Skeletten, 1879-1897.

[penandgravy]

one of my Mum’s screenprints from the late 60s…