everyday mandalei

Classical archaeology, Latin and Greek, professional modern quilter, ADHD

[cyberpunk-r-j]

[ivytea]

false lanternberry

[detroitlib]

Close-up view of a model for a cornice detail on the Main Library, Detroit Public Library. Ruler with "Atlantic Terra Cotta Co." is displayed below detail. Handwritten on back: "Terracotta."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[weonsinnombre]

[shieldfoss]

oH RIGHT This was before LotR pioneered cgi for massed crowd behavior

There was so much cool cgi in those movies I just assumed all the clones were too but back then I guess they still couldn’t really be

[chilewithcarnage]

this is so sexy

[luckyladylily]

I wonder what happened to all the agent smith masks

[roomtemperaturesuperconductor]

I can actually answer this! So the latex/rubber they used, while standard for Hollywood at the time, reacted REALLY BADLY to being doused in pouring water nonstop for an entire day of shooting. They ended up corroding, which caused them to stink really badly and glob together at the seams. The original plan was to hand out masks to various crew members on the final day of shooting as souvenirs, but the sopping wet, melting, rotting rubber got so gross that by the end of that shooting day they’d already thrown most of them out. Somewhere in a landfill are hundreds of disgusting, bloated, slimey Hugo weaving heads fused together into a nightmarish rotting amalgam :)

[roach-works]

it’s what he would have wanted

[museum-of-artifacts]

Late Bronze Age baby bottles from Austria, dated to around 1200-800 BC. Similar pint-sized vessels were found across the European continent, with some of them still having ruminant milk residue inside suggesting that it could have been used as a supplementary food during weaning

More: https://thetravelbible.com/mysterious-archaeological-finds/

[blackheartedpriestess]

[windup-angel]

[thevastnessof]

it’s actually quite easy to take over a small local government group if you really want to, bc if you volunteer consistently people will just put you in charge of whatever. I’m now one of like three people at a nature preserve making official decisions about trails, events, putting in a prairie, and designing a series of illustrations for a storybook trail etc., and it’s just because last summer I started coming over once a week to help the naturalist out for a couple hours. Mine now. you too can steal an organization and shape it to your will 🫵

[tyrian-red]

call me cicero the way i scroll through my own blog and think each post is sooooo witty. oh us happy people, oh fortunate romeblr, oh highly distinguished praise of my postingship

[kropotkindersurprise]

you know how it is

[isopodcore]

its woodcock season, baby!

[finnelfin]

Embroidery de Poitrine

Is it wonky? Yes. Do I love it? YES.

[kosmogrl]

let this be a reminder that even if it takes time your dreams can come true

[rabbitindisguise]

an astronaut foretold to go to the moon by a fortune cookie can be a kind of magical girl, I think

[nattyjayna]

embarrassment has good bones

[sivavakkiyar]

Do you ever think about how the three primary Homers of western civilization (Greek, Simpson, Baseball) form a perfect trinity that represents all facets of a persons life (cultural, private, public)?

I can’t say I specifically have, but I hear you. Pynchon would love this

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[hardrockerhippie]

At first i was like: why the hell is this on tumblr?! And then it suddenly made sense...

[ekjohnston]

This is incredible.

[whispersinthetide]

The freaking jolt in my chest when I looked outside and realized I could see Artemis II reentering the atmosphere from my front yard

Welcome back Artemis II!

[liesmyth]

Parco dell'Appia Antica, Roma