entranced in time

they/them

[jellytoast]

Peter Birkhäuser, Switzerland (1911-1976)

The Dream/Fight with the Praying Mantis (1945)

[mutant-distraction]

Turtle House in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia

[sovietpostcards]

Bench made out of a big geode. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Sverdlovsk, 1958).

[sovietpostcards]

View of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Sverdlovsk, 1958).

[sovietpostcards]

Tram in Sverdlovsk. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1958).

[hideki-koga]

ササゴイ（Striated heron）

[melonwah]

[likeniobe]

A man's cap with turned up cuff, of off-white linen embroidered in a pattern of rainbows arching over clouds with rain falling, with snails and caterpillars interspersed. In blue, green, yellow, red and pink silks and silver metallic yarns.

english, late 16th century, at the cooper hewitt

[siena-sevenwits]

@lurking-latinist, don’t hide this in the tags!

[z-coil]

[psikonauti]

Fuco Ueda (Japanese,b.1979)

Fragment of Daydream 3 「白昼夢の欠片 3」, 2014

Acrylic on canvas

[felinepurrrstory]

[lionfloss]

source

[bisexualwizard420]

An Arvilikjuaq Inuit child and a snowman built by her father by unknown photographer

[jesters-armed]

Photographer was Richard Harrington.  This is Theresie, the three-year-old (in 1951) daughter of Erkuaktok (Iquugaqtuq), an Arvilikjuaq (Pelly Bay) Inuk.

[gator-crusador]

The artist Paweł Ponichtera seems to have inexplicably dedicated a massive amount of time and effort to hyper-detailed and hyper-accurate illustrations of chinchillas engaged in historical fencing, many with clear and specific reference to particular historical treatises. So, I give you:

Hans Talhoffer Chinchillas

Harnisfechten Chinchillas

Joachim Meyer Longsword Chinchillas

Fantastical Snail Marginalia Chinchillas

Olympic Epee Chinchillas

Salvator Fabris Rapier-in-the-Nude Chinchillas

Napoleonic Saber Chinchillas

Arabic Shamshir Chinchillas

18th Century Smallsword Chinchillas

I.33 Sword and Buckler Chinchillas

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

from @djbaskin

[pwlanier]

Basalt Pebble Carved as a Mouflon, Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC.

Courtesy Alain Truong

[realshinjiikari]

Imagine carving a funky little goat and 5000 years later people are looking at it in a museum.

[entrancedintime]

infinite and beautiful