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my other blogs:

@coyotelope - just kind of a weirder/darker aesthetic (and my most active blog)

@someonesmemories - spooky liminal spaces

@c0rpsebot - SOMA aesthetic

@sm0kedsalm0n - food

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@dariabydasha

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Nonbei, Shibuya 渋谷

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by Frank Hamm

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Kitagawa Utamaro Triptych: Courtesans Nakagawa, Utagawa and Matsukaze of the Matsubaya (Matsubaya sanbijin harimise), Late Edo period, circa 1799

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The Predator, 2007. Inlay and banjo by Renée Karnes.

This project took two years and 700 hours to complete. Since Renée was building the banjo for herself, she wanted to create more of an art piece than an instrument used for performing. She came up with the idea for the theme while on a hunting trip in 2004, “I wanted to show the beauty of nature, and the hunt, using scenes with animals and birds. I drew the resonator and the back of the peghead while on that trip.”

The design includes 61 different animals, birds and fish, all engraved. Some are so small you need magnifiers to see them. Every piece of shell has engraving on it, except one. And, with the exception of four small pieces of reconstituted stone, the colors in all of the scenes were done with shell. One may wonder why she built a 5-string banjo: because she needed the extra room on the fingerboard to get the overall effect of the river running the full length along with individual scenes in each fret.

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The sun is down, leaving gorgeous colors behind at Lake Michigan.

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St. Benedict's Painted Church in Hōnaunau, Hawaii. The vaulted ceilings are painted with palm frond tops. The walls depict biblical stories and symbolism.

Photos: Megan Spelman

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