& Rained Upon

late 20s. any pronouns. If you want me to tag anything please let me know!

[womansart]

Lesley Anne Ivory, UK

[pintoras]

Molly B. Evans (British, exh. 1895 - 1896): A damsel in the tower (via Bonhams)

[overclassy]

[surrealism]

Iter Verum by Tenia, 2017. Digital Painting.

[sallllltywater]

They might look different, but they are sisters 👩🏼‍❤️‍👩🏻 !!

Also check out their glorious mothers Lady Darius Dashius and her beloved xeno wife farseer Sparka

Character design done for @baronofcaring

[missmirrorselfie01]

[puppygirllaika]

brutalism hatred over. let's get some hatred going for the intarnational styles. babygirl you didn't have to make everything into a panel.

[puppygirllaika]

"We have developed the technology to create hanging facades, where buildings can be made using interior steel frames with panels hanging off the sides, instead of those gross old buildings where their sturdy exteriors walls supported the structure. This has allowed us to achieve the ultimate dream of architecture, the most beautiful representation of form and function we can possibly imagine: Big Box. All buildings for the next 50 years will now be Big Box. Everyone loves Big Box."

[puppygirllaika]

Behold, architecture.

[charlizetheronsbush-official]

is this minoru yamasaki’s fault

[puppygirllaika]

i would strongly disagree with that. Yes, he designed one of the most famous building ever in the international style, the world trade center, but that wasn't until well into the development and adoption of the style across the architectural world. If anything, the main motif of his career is his arches, and he used them liberally at a time when the arch was well fallen out of favor specifically because of modernist styles like the international style that were obsessed with the advantages of the kind of squared off shapes that could be achieved with steel beams, with the architectural world moving away from more traditional arches. He did a lot of really cool and interesting things with them. it's why the bottom of the WTC looked like that. The man loved an arch.

[puppygirllaika]

oh, for reference:

Rainier Tower - Seattle, Washington, USA

Northwestern National Life Building - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

St. Louis Lambert International Airport - St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Dhahran International Airport (Now King Abdulaziz Air Base) - Saudi Arabia

Pacific Science Center / 1962 Worlds Fair - Seattle, Washington, USA

World Trade Center (Demolished) - Manhattan, New York, USA

[thotsoflore]

(Demolished)

[puppygirllaika]

(Demolished)

[fleshengine]

Why'd they demolish it? Anyone know?

[forgettableandtired]

I understand there were a number of criticisms, for one it was in international style.

[geopsych]

Wandering glider dragonfly. I had never seen one, then I read an article about them and then today at the pond near the park they were everywhere! Ducks floating on the water were reaching up and grabbing them out of the air. One flew around me and almost into my face, backing off when it was just inches away. I’m posting a link to the article because they’re such fascinating creatures, with the longest migrations and a global family.

‘Fearless and quietly astonishing’: the dragonfly that migrates further than any other insect

Wandering gliders are descended from some of the earliest known insects – and breed as one global population

[jinxproof]

© Ren Hang

[random-brushstrokes]

Roman Nyman - Boboli Gardens (1924)

[artstationable]

nula

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[cosmicanger]

aurora borealis from space

[hymneminium]

#oh my god did gallagher just discover the term dank this is so exciting #does he know it's a weed thing?? there's no way right

Of course Peter Gallagher knows that "dank" is a weed thing. He also knows that "in heat" is a sex thing and that when aliens "probe" someone it's in the anus.

These are words, not things. Heathcliff is a comic about symbols.

You're never going to get a comic where an alien actually probes someone any more than you're going to get a comic where the Man-Eating Giant eats a man. You're just going to get a dozen comics where aliens like the word "probe".

Heathcliff wears the ham helmet because it's the helmet you wear when you eat a ham. You can tell it's that helmet because it says "ham" on it. The helmet's function is determined not by its form but by its label.

summer = beach = sand = desert = mummy and thus there is the Summer Mummy. Because of symbolic associations that do not otherwise cohere.

Robots don't wear clothes but the mere act of labeling them "nude" makes them nude. And once a painting is a nude painting there has to be a fig leaf because a "nude" without a "figleaf" is "indecent".

A "ham" is a ham even when it's a car. A yam can be a ham can be a car because "yam" sounds like "ham". Symbols have overtaken things.

[hymneminium]

Jimmy is Heathcliff's attempt to manipulate these symbols.

popularity = billboards, popularity = charity fundraising, popularity = influencers. But standing underneath the word "influencer" has failed to make Jimmy popular. Why is this?

[folklorespring]

Mirror Fence by Alyson Shotz

[raisinchallah]

when creative partnerships are more intimate than a marriage and the break up is worse than a divorce

[ex0skeletal]

The Gates of Hell is a monumental sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from “The Inferno”, the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

[daedalus-rizing]

moebius