Global Squid, or Explorations of the Deep

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[arcaneimages]

Lugosi 

[expensivelife]

[mollyfloggings]

The Nautilus——Steampunk Art-car strutting its stuff down main street in Virginia City, NV @ The Victorian Steampunk Ball 2013

It’s complete with a living quaters, two fully functional DJ booths and water cannons!

[wilwheaton]

My friend Jamais is a futurist, and this is pretty much how I feel whenever he talks about how badly we are fucking up our planet.

(via Poorly Drawn Lines – 2056)

[wondrousworld]

This adorable brown bear cub photographed by In Cherl Kim was born at Everland Zoo in South Korea.

[rhamphotheca]

A young Atlantic White-spotted Octopus (Octopus macropus) - identification tenative - spotted resting on the deep ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico, 2012.

(via: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research)

[cozydark-blog]

Rendered image of every man-made satellite currently orbiting Earth. (excluding small debris)  

[rorschachx]

A jellyfish (Bougainvillia superciliaris) with a hitchhiking amphipod (Hyperia galba) | image by Alexander Semenov

[wilwheaton]

Banksy piece, seen on Reddit.

[sarahjsketches]

Okay, I admit to laughing while making this one.

[allahuramazda-deactivated201901]

[flaunted-faults]

[living-planet]

Asperatus Clouds [1024x576] http://living-planet.tumblr.com/

[soilleir-blog]

Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” has been reproduced on a devastated building in Syria by artist Tammam Azzam.

[awkwardsituationist]

[thefrogman]

Photos by Solvin Zankl [website]

[h/t: awkwardsituationist]

[wnycradiolab]

Banksy hits NYC with "A New York delivery truck converted into a mobile garden (includes rainbow, waterfall and butterflies)."

May we suggest you try the “Click here to listen” button near the bottom of the page? It’s full of gems like:

“Such a juxtaposition, then, is a common theme for this artist—or to put it another way, he just keeps repeating himself.”

Nice.

[inklins]

It’s finally October, and you guys know what that means…

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