all in time

Hello! This is my Personal blog for inspirations and things that I find amusing. Follow at you own risk, and please excuse me. My Art Blog Flight Rising Blog

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[despazito]

*constantly wants to draw things outside of my artistic abilities*

[the-original-b]

Here’s one good thing to come out of 2020:

Paleontologists completed a life-sized replica of Sue, the most complete T. Rex ever found.

And she is freaking GORGEOUS!

As I read more about this beauty, I found out some new details regarding things I thought I previously knew about the beast that was Tyrannosaurus Rex, and I’m going to share them with you.

First, and most obvious, her size:

This is nothing new, we all figured T. Rex was big, but I for one never stopped to consider exactly how big it was. Nobody ever really knows what to imagine when they read about something the size of a whale that walked around and ate everything it could kill. 

Speaking of eating things, I just want to remind you all that T. Rex had–by miles–the strongest bite of any terrestrial animal living or dead, somewhere around six and a half tons of force. That’s over six times greater than the current estimate of what Allosaurus was capable of, and three times what was delivered by the highest measured reading of the living title holder–the estuarine crocodile. It didn’t have to waste time swinging its head open-mouthed like Saurophaganax for a little extra oomph, or grow fancy serrated teeth like Carcharodontosaurus to cut pieces out of its prey. It opted for the simplest approach: get its mouth around something and crush it to death; imagine the full weight of an elephant on whatever was between this thing’s jaws.

“How did it find something to eat?” I hear you asking. “It can’t see something if it doesn’t move, right?”

Listen, I love Jurassic Park too, but that’s a big crock of shit.

Notice how both her eyes face forward. That gives her binocular vision (the ability to focus both eyes on one target, like you and I). More importantly it means she has impeccable depth perception due to overlapping fields of vision from each, large, eyeball. Researchers agree that T. Rex not only had incredible vision, but that it was probably better than most modern animals–including eagles, hawks, and owls–and that she could likely spot something three and a half miles away. If something that big can see that well, it doesn’t matter if you move or not, she’d be able to tell if it was an animal trying to hide or a piece of vegetation. So pray she isn’t hungry if she lays eyes on you. And even if by some miracle she didn’t see you, she’d still smell you. 

If she decided you looked tasty, you probably wouldn’t hear her coming as much as you’d feel her. Modern science indicates that T. Rex didn’t roar like in Jurassic Park, but rather bellowed or maybe even hissed like crocodilians. If she were on to you, you’d most likely feel this sense of unease creep up your spine as a low-pitched rumble in the air permeated through you. You wouldn’t know what it was or where it was coming from until you hear her footfalls. By then it’s too late–you could try to run but she’d probably catch you. There’s plenty on YouTube that reconstructs what T. Rex may have sounded like, and it’s legitimately haunting.  

To wrap all of this up, the one bit of good that came out of the cursed year that is 2020 is that this wonderful child of science and art came into the world, and reaffirmed my respect and admiration for the eight ton slab of muscle and teeth that is this magnificent creature.

…and it is nothing if not magnificent.

[the-original-b]

I honestly expected like three notes, what happened!?

[hummingyogurt]

Palaeontologists are the ones providing the data and advice but don’t give them full credit, this life-sized sculpture was created by ARTISTS, the artist team of @bluerhinostudio​

They also created this Quetzalcoatlus that made the rounds online (image credit goes to National Geographic)

As well as many more amazing sculptures and dioramas, so please check them out here on Tumblr and on Instagram

They are currently working on a new Tyrannosaurus again which will be on display in Europe (image credit goes to Blue Rhino Studio)

Please give the amazing team of Blue Rhino Studio the credit they deserve

[kipplekipple]

They’re on instagram! https://instagram.com/bluerhinostudio?igshid=yrk9no4d59ql

[gingerblivet]

Friendly reminder that as they’ve not been able to determine Sue’s gender, that Sue uses they/them pronouns!

[ear]

[lieutenantfish]

[raincoatduckling]

Her nose is too big and her eyes need to be larger. Also where are her lashes and bow?

[transazurill]

right here! isn’t she so pretty?

[jaubaius]

The best example of cat logic. Lol

[cricketcat9]

😂😹

[bekstek]

the ending was even better than i had imagined

[jadedaceofspades-deactivated202]

@disparatepeace got another good one!!!

[peacesmovingcabaret]

I saw the word mayonnaise and I immediately saw red.

[skiplo-wave]

Honey you can NOT dilute a war crime

[tastefullyoffensive]

Portals to Hell by hrmphfft

[marchqueen-deactivated20161002]

IT’S BACK

[lady-dirtbag]

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS AGAIN FOR MONTHS

I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW

[2ndratewig]

ITS BACK 

[trumpetnista]

This is one of those posts that you need to save and tag or you’ll never see it again for 84 years.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

You got that right

[cinnamonrollorder]

I’m crying

[nerdneeniya]

New portal just opened

[boss-angeles420]

I haven’t seen this post in years, so iconic

[dermottlailas]

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky / A Breath of Life, Clarice Lispector / The Testaments, Margaret Atwood / My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Fredrik Backman / Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Maggie Stiefvater / “I Exist I Exist I Exist,” Flatsound / The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath / post, tumblr user @twofigs / “From the Book of Time,” Mary Oliver / “Here Am I,” Anis Mojgani

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[omnifariousness]

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[subwayrattata]

[Image IDs: A Twitter thread by @ithayla.

The first image, is the initial tweet, the last two contain the rest of the thread. Here is the full text:

Someone buying crypto art got all his tokens stolen and the crypto website he uses won’t help him get it back because they claim it’s his fault and the whole point of Bitcoin is that it’s unregulated I’m telling you this so you can enjoy the genius of this reply in the comments.

“This is the libertarian world working as intended. Feel free to purchase whatever justice you can afford.”

let me repeat he got his account hacked and all his stuff stolen the website owners confirmed that it happened and know who did it but they won’t help because there’s no regulations that compel them to. unlike with a bank where his money would be back with him already

and yet the entire selling point of Bitcoin is that there are no regulations and you can’t be compelled by anyone to do anything for any reason. perfect freedom! including the freedom to have all your stuff stolen with no protections or recourse. there’s a saying about sowing

he did manage to get some of his money back …by filing a complaint with his credit card which he used to purchase some of the tokens. so the regulated form of currency was the only protection he got.

like. at some point you can’t do anything but laugh at their delusions. 

End ID.]

[wet-monsoon]

it’s kind of incredible how much pixar has backpedaled over the last couple of years, from the standpoint of character design 

these were the kind of characters designs they had when they did their first movie with humans as their main cast 

despite being cg all of the characters are visually distinct from each other and they look like 2d figures translated into a 3d environment

now it’s just???

all their human characters kind of lack that visual distinction and they’re all just? cute? 

[loserfuck]

Alright, I wasn’t gonna comment b/c it’s kind of a waste of time, but I see a lotta folks tryin to pass off “Incredibles” designs as ‘an attempt to avoid Uncanny Valley with primitive tech’ or ‘resembling comic book art’, and a lot of other…. un-design-savvy comments.

Brad Bird had come from a background in traditional animation, he’s the guy behind this

So Lasseter (Pixar) rings up Bird like “Hey you wanna make a CG movie with us” and Bird’s like “Yeah, lemme bring my guys”, artists like Lou Romano, Teddy Newton, Tony Fucile, and Albert Lozano, who worked with Bird previously.

This may have been Pixar’s first production to feature an entirely human cast, but I think mostly what the excellence in designs boils down to is simply good artists with good taste.

And then have the fantastic designs in “Ratatouille”, also by Bird and his boys

We’ve also got the film “Up”, directed by Pete Doctor. Animated films rely on several artists for the designs of characters, set, props, ect, but it often leans towards one artist’s work. Putting other artists in charge gives “Up” a distinctive visual difference in style to Bird’s films.

You could place the blame on all these newer movies featuring mostly children characters, but I mean…..

Come on. Way to drop the ball on the chance to play with evolution in a fictional, animated setting. The issue isn’t what the tech was or wasn’t, is or isn’t capable of. This comes down to the artistic choices.

Anyway, I wish I could get more in-depth with this, but it’s difficult to find the information I need online in a timely manner, and I don’t have my books here with me.

If you’re interested in the designs/work that goes into animated films, check out the “Art Of __” books. The older ones I mean, that have actual raw concept art done for production and not just a bunch of cutsie drawings of characters b/c that’s what sells.

[cozza-frenzy]

The difference between then and now is simply that Pixar was bought out by Disney, and is now one of Disney’s biggest money-spinners. They make superhero movies focus-grouped for boys, princess movies focus-grouped for girls, and since Pixar movies are supposed to appeal to both those genders equally you get, well, that. A neutered, generically cute art style that lends itself to big-eyed dolls with brushable hair and cute animal plush toys that make noises when you squeeze them. I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again; Disney (and by extension, Pixar) don’t make art any more. With a few scant exceptions they haven’t made art for decades. What they make is money. What they’re selling is a brand. Their last few passion projects spent years in development hell, hemorrhaging money the entire time, so what would eventually become Tangled, Frozen, and The Good Dinosaur ended up as bland and generic simply to recoup some of that enormous loss. And by being bland and generic, they ended up turning a massive profit, so you can expect that trend to continue.  A corporation that sells everything from kid-friendly cruise holidays to mickey-themed wedding packages is not going to make art. A studio that’s so creatively bankrupt that it’s now rebooting every good movie it’s ever made is not going to make art. If you want art, look to smaller studios (Laika, Reel FX), smaller, lower-budget projects (Captain Underpants), and anything that Hollywood considers ‘risky’. Expecting Disney (and Pixar) to make anything that doesn’t blandly appeal to everyone at this point is like expecting blood to come out of a stone.

[analvelocity]

#reblogging this makes me feel like a boomer complaining that everything used to be better when i was young

Nah, there’s more good content, real art coming out now than ever before, it’s just not coming out of Disney.

[starryrogue]

“We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.”

Michael Eisner-former CEO of Disney

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This is also why the Disney Renaissance was, well, the Disney Renaissance. Disney took a lot of risks on a lot of projects that have since become cult classics, but weren’t at all popular when they came out–and the decade in which they came out was also negatively marked by the departure of Don Bluth and much of the senior animating team. (Yes, that Don Bluth.)

Like, just as an example. My favorite Disney movie of all time. The Great Mouse Detective. Is it a musical movie? Not really, but it’s not really not one, either. There are only three songs, two performed by the villain and one performed by one of the villain’s patsies, who is also a stripteasing mouse in a bar. (And while we’re on the topic: how the fuck did a burlesque striptease make it into a Disney movie??? Like, the fact that it’s performed by a mouse is the least-weird part of that entire sentence.) It was Disney’s first foray into CGI–while almost the entirety of the movie is hand-drawn, the backgrounds in the Big Ben sequence were computer-rendered, and at the time that was insanely expensive. There are multiple sequences that would be way, way too graphic and disturbing, in terms of violence, for a children’s movie today: Ratigan threatening Olivia to motivate Flavisham, sabotaging the automaton, the deathtrap for Basil and Dawson, the Big Ben sequence, for fuck’s sake the big fuckoff villain song includes a character being eaten alive. Our introduction to our hero involves him pulling a gun on a complete stranger and firing it.

Is it a brilliant movie? I think so, yeah! There’s a lot of heart packed in there, and if there’s one Disney movie I wouldn’t mind a sequel to, Mouse Detective is it. (Although it would have to be traditional animation, and sadly these days I would mind it quite a lot because Barrie Ingham, the voice of Basil–who also wanted a sequel, incidentally, every single VA who’s talked about the film has said they wanted to do it again–has passed on and there just is no replacing him.)

(Also! The female characters are in slightly short supply due to the nature of the story! But there’s a female bartender and she’s allowed to be ugly!)

Do I have any fucking idea who the target audience of this animated movie, based upon a children’s book but full of guns and murder plots and sex and drugs and alcohol and general nefariousness, was supposed to be? NOT A FUCKING ONE, MATES! Not a single fucking clue! Like yeah, in the 1980s people were a lot more blase about their kids seeing drinking and smoking in movies and this was the decade that brought us stuff like Labyrinth and Neverending Story, but a wholeass bar fight including knives and guns? A burlesque number? The constant onscreen threat of murdering a little girl? Like … . yeah, I love the movie and I wouldn’t change a single fucking thing about it, and it wasn’t a financial disaster in the way of its immediate predecessors, but I am completely unsurprised it didn’t explode. Some people place it, not Little Mermaid, as the start of the Disney Renaissance, but frankly? While it is the film that’s responsible for the Renaissance being allowed to happen, it is way too fucking bizarre to be part of the Renaissance.

There was a time when Disney did great work and tried new, unusual, sometimes frightening things. Hunchback of Notre Dame? Did you know about 40% of Hunchback was CGI? I used to own the “The Art Of” book when I was a kid. All those eight zillion peasants you see in every scene, they’re all randomly generated from an electronic template. That’s why the animation on the main characters is so fucking lush. They used the computer to do the heavy lifting so the hand animators were free to focus on the mains and do, well, that. You’ve seen Hunchback. I don’t have to explain, which is good because I’m not sure I’d have an adequate vocabulary to do it. There isn’t a single sequence in that movie, even the stupid buddy song I think we all like to forget is in there, that doesn’t look absolutely breathtaking. Because they were innovative.

But that time is past. The only way to get Disney back to creating art is to destroy their monopoly, and frankly, there are a lot of other studios out there that deserve your time and attention and don’t need to go through Disney.

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“Nastassja Korolevichna” and “Maria Swan White” by Sergey Solomko

[moonlitmorphos]

Look, I don’t make the rules but you’re legally required to watch this.

TikTok

[atomskdluffy]

The dude is having an existential crisis at the end and I UNDERSTAND

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[mikkeneko]

for the love of god unmute

[umbralaperture]

Muted it took me 6 seconds to figure out what was going on. Unmuted I had tears in my eyes 3 seconds in

[hometoursandotherstuff]

A Twitter user saw an ad for this neat, unassuming house for sale for less than $159,000. 

It had a beautiful yard, so he made an app’t to see it. And, that’s when things got weird. 

The living room was messy and tacky, but it had a nice spiral staircase, an open 2nd fl. balcony, and Mediterranean style. 

But what was up with this mural of outer space?

And these 2 creepy homemade aliens?

Well, the space theme continued into the dining room. The mural made it look like you were in a spaceship that landed on the moon- see earth off in the distance?

Hmmm. This looks like the conference room in a space ship. 

The kitchen is plain, but still has a few touches, as well as a “sealed” hatch door. 

What, you say you like the beach? This house has you covered. The bedroom has a waterbed and that’s real sand on the floor. 

The bathroom is a tropical rain forest. 

This 2nd bedroom is beautifully staged in a hippie retro theme- notice the square bed- it must be a cardboard box.

Look, this spare room is a blank canvas- you can make it anything you like.

And, I don’t know what this is on the mezzanine. 

The back of the house is nice, but it’s a little overgrown- the ivy is starting to cover some of the windows. It was sold for $152,500.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/quirky-home-for-sale-comes-with-a-spaceship-and-a-beach-inside-1.4944934

[blondejaneblonde]

Whatever the reason, it’s clear that these people were living their absolute best life.

[finnglas]

that’s an Animal Crossing house

[pastel-daydreaming]

When you’re daydreaming a scenario and then suddenly come up with something that would work way better

[swagintherain]

setup and punchline

[lord-kitschener]

The artist is luo li rong

[cecaeliawitch]

The statue doesn’t have big enough titties to have been made by a man.

[radgoblin]

I know I’ve reblogged this before but the schadenfreude is too delicious.

[gehayi]

By the way, the statue is called  La mélodie oubliée (The Forgotten Melody). Luo Li Rong also painted it:

And here she and the statue are in a more formal setting (museum or art show, I can’t tell):

[theepoetspoet]

“Dork ass losers”

[lulu-tan79]

That beautiful statue started from this:

Ms. Luo Lirong graduated from China Central Academy Of Fine Arts. She’s a very talented artist. More of her works:

[scatterations]

Beautiful. Extraordinary talent

[daisyjonesdailylines-deactivate]

Follow her on Instagram luo_li_rong_art.

[redfoxwritesstuff]

one, I’ve never seen it with paint and it’s somehow even better. As are her other works. 

[lil-tumbles]

She’s back, and she’s beautiful.

[jenniferrpovey]

I reblogged this before, but with fewer sculptures…