Big Boy’s Big Break

Ben (26) he/him, I love science (especially biology), the Classics (particularly Latin but Greek is ok), dogs, video games, and infographics (data visualization in general). [I was dogdogmeme] PhD candidate studying evolutionary biochemistry. I previously did research on the genetic basis of pathogenesis in normally harmless microbes. Most of my work involved the statistical analysis of genetic data.

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by Richard Serra

[tonyzaret]

Caught using AI??

[psikonauti]

Zhao Zhao (Chinese, b. 1982)

Constellations, 2021-2022

Embroidery on silk

[psikonauti]

ok so i’ve seen some of you aren’t that sure that this is actually embroidery (i was suspicious too bc damn!!!!) so here you is another embroidery of his with some close ups♥ :

Constellations, 2017 (300 x 980 cm)

embroidery on silk

[myspace]

Six flags commercial from 2004 you most likely forgot about.

[nonenosome2]

Nobody who has seen this has ever forgotten about it.

[mahgnib]

“The Sacrifice of Polyxena”, 17th century Chinese tapestry, part of a series llustrating the story of the Trojan War, made for sale to the Portuguese market. More than a bit chaotic when reduced to internet size, no doubt far more effective in person.

[litrouke]

From the Met:

From 1557, the Portuguese contracted with the Ming rulers of China to buy control of Macau, a coastal peninsula near Hong Kong. Sailing between Asia and Iberia, trade enabled an abundance of spices, but also of textiles, to enter Europe. This heady moment of mutual discovery provides the context for Francisco Mascarenhas, governor of Macau, to commission this unusual hanging. The scale and conventions of Flemish tapestry are translated into Chinese embroidery. Familiar European subject matter, loosely based on Homer’s Iliad and informed by printed sources, is marvelously charged with Asian decorative details– such as the shields hanging from the Trojan galley– and a Portuguese border articulated by snake-battling sirens and (slightly erroneous) renditions of the Mascarenhas family arms. At some point in the hanging's history, the embroidered silk in all the flesh areas was cut away and replaced with paint for reasons that remain unclear.

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[wiigiwaamcore]

David Cusick was a Tuscarora (Haudenosaunee) artist who self-published the first known English-language record of Indigenous stories told BY an Indigenous writer-illustrator. His book is called David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations and you can read it for free online.

[egberts]

i hate that social media apps have decided it's their job to scroll for you and autoplay the next video in a desperate attempt to get you to stay. like genuinely nothing you do will make me stay and watch that video after you force it onto the screen in front of me. the minute you auto scroll from what i was watching to your stupid distraction technique, i close the app and you fail. fuck you

[redstonedust]

ugh. on the one hand tumblr introducing age verification for people in countries where thats come into law recently was probably inevitable and outside of their control. on the other hand the fact tumblr is so bad at identifying mature posts IS within their control and it really adds insult to injury. like idc if its a faulty algorithm or malicious user reports or shitty admins, at least when bluesky asks for my ID its because i clicked on a post with sex in it. the last mature marked post i saw on tumblr was a photo of megan thee stallion in cosplay. dont piss me off.

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

 Z from the 1998 animated film Antz.

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[omgthatdress]

For real though can someone out there draw Veth in a Patrick Kelly button dress?

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

[toughtink]

okay i’ll do it

[toughtinkart]

okay i did it

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[wizardarchetypes]

god last night after a longass day i got to my campsite too late to buy firewood anywhere so i had to go into the woods to chop some deadwood myself but then i somehow didn't have my headlamp so after i had my armful of wood i was carrying my flashlight in my mouth and by the time i had the fire going and cooked dinner and got to bed i was too tired to move. i didn't even set up a tent i just got into my sleeping back in the dark and then i woke up an hour later to Little Bird bristling and growling like there were a lion upon us and as i rose out of my haze i heard the telltale "meep" of an american woodcock. truly we were under siege.

[wizardarchetypes]

little bird said quickly! we are under attack!

the attacker:

[wizardarchetypes]

deeply obsessed with these tags

[mobilesuitgudang]

I want to print this and hang it on my bedroom wall. How do you live like this?

[apas-95]

this person is posting from 1690