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Henry Pearson (American: 1914-2006), Red and Blue, 1964. Litho

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“Vampire bat…The beginning of a nightly meal of defibrinated blood.” Zoologica. 1935.

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Extraordinary Kabuki stage costumes. First half 19th century, Japan. Tokyo National Museum

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Aardman’s Conversation Pieces (1982-3) used real life dialogue, which gave the shorts a strange, compelling realness. The only acting comes from the plasticine figures, but it’s so subtle and casual that you’re starting to believe you’re actually watching a documentary in which the players just happen to be puppets.

There’s a parole hearing (images 5 and 6), a sales pitch (3 and 4), a newsroom with journalists (1 and 2), and everyone just potters about, doing the things that make up life. No dreams, heroic quests, story arcs, or inner awakenings.

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Robin F. Williams (American, b. 1984), Rescue Party, 2010. Oil on canvas, 80 x 90 in.

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Fawkes the Phoenix was based on a harpy eagle, howmcute would a kestrel phoenix be with a peacock tail and train?

this is a Good Opportunity considering i was never a big fan of fawkes’ movie design how about

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ok but what about

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@elodieunderglass uhhhhhh… Birb?

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I Suggest we Consider:

AQUATIC (penguin)

No wait

this is terrible

put it back

the poor thing

why would anyone do this

keire-ke

I dunno, I kinda love it… :D

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It’s a fine line to tread when you’re breeding your phoenix. A swan is good:

Elegant

Classic

Like Cleopatra, he burns upon the water

Equal parts beauty and danger

Full of Secrets

But take it a few genes to the left and you’ve got a GOOSE

A raptor if raptors were total idiots

Neither beauty nor grace

Full of Hate

Has so much poop for you

(Make no mistake, a swan will mess you up just as hard as a goose. But it is the difference between being slain with a katana and getting whacked with a bag of old potatoes.)

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It got better

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Oh my God someone actually drew a Good Version of my Dubious Penguin????? And THEN someone added a sweonix (swan phoenix)? Oh man, this is the stuff you miss when you’re in the middle of a reblog chain.

@english-history-trip that is some powerful art, and I respect the trip that it represents from the sublime to the absurd, for in this journey we find enlightenment.

@keire-ke your magnificent penguin art represents the other side of the journey, which takes us from the absurd to the powerful. In this journey we find truth.

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According to some sources, the legend of the phoenix might be derived from another bird noted for it’s striking appearance and who, indeed, are of the order Phoenicopterus

You know what birds those are?

FLAMINGOS!

Just saying…. if someone wanted to try ANOTHER take on Fawkes….