Get Up In Your Original Face

[ducissatenebrarum]

A sculpture of a demon fanning the fire, located on the tympanum of the central portal of the Bourges Cathedral in France. 14th century CE

[1five1two]

'Daybreak'. Micah Ulrich.

[70sscifiart]

Andrew Liptak at Transfer Orbit interviewed me about my upcoming art book!

Your first book was Worlds Beyond Time: what will this new book do that you couldn't do with that one?

There’s a great Leo Steinberg quote: “All art is infested by other art.” My first book took a really close look at one slice of science fiction illustration (mostly book covers, mostly 1960s-’80s), so this new one is pulling back to look at the web of influences that went into that era and emerged from it.

I’m covering such a broad area that it’s going to be impossible to include everything, so I’m approaching it more like an art smorgasbord that jumps around between centuries and mediums.

Read the whole interview over here!

[sadhuramanandagiri]

[nevver]

Glimmerati, Claudia Keep

[monkeysforhelping]

[biologist4ever]

Not a Plant, Not a Sheep… It's a Photosynthesizing Slug!

But it’s dressed like a plant… and powers itself like one, too.

Meet the Leaf Sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae) — one of the smallest and strangest marvels of the sea.

Barely the size of a grain of rice, this creature has black ear-like tentacles, bead-black eyes, and a back covered in tiny green “leaves.”

Those aren’t leaves at all — they’re cerata, filled with stolen chloroplasts from the algae it eats.

Through a process called kleptoplasty, the Leaf Sheep turns sunlight into energy, making it one of the few animals on Earth to photosynthesize.

Its leafy camouflage hides it among seaweed while its stolen solar cells fuel its day.

Drifting through warm Indo-Pacific reefs, it grazes on algae like a tiny sheep of the sea… except this one runs on sunlight.

[mountain-sage]

[1five1two]

[tracetheradianceback]

Vädersolstavlan means "sundog painting" in Swedish. This happened over Stockholm for 9 hours in 1535.

[entheognosis]

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”

—

Pema Chödrön

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Paul Wenzel (1935–2022, American) Maximilian from The Black Hole film (1979)

[ardou]

[gothredy]

[ymutate]

Scott Musgrove

Walktopus

Bronze Sculpture, 20 inches tall. Edition of 32.

https://www.scottmusgrove.com/

[nevver]

Glimmerati, Claudia Keep

[getupinyouroriginalface]

“All people can be peace workers. Whenever you bring harmony into any unpeaceful situation, you contribute to the total peace picture. Insofar as you have peace in your life, you reflect it into your surroundings and into your world.”

Peace Pilgrim

[fravery]

VINCENT VAN GOGH

“No blue without yellow”

Flower Beds in Holland (1883)