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Home just in time for A N T I Q U E S R O A D S H O W !

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Look at this CAR HORN!!

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Imagine driving in 1915 Paris with a fuckin gargoyle on your Peugeot lol

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Put this on my bike and watch me H O N K

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Justin Cherry

Headless Vessel

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Lunar Eclipse 2019 | Zoltan Tasi

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Costume for Man of Steel (2013)

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Fairy Queen costume, Iolanthe, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1977. Designed by Bruno Santini

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George Bain, (1881–1968), born in Scrabster in Caithness, Scotland, was an artist and art teacher who made an important and influential contribution to the revival of interest in Celtic and Insular art which began in the 19th century.

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-Uhu and Solaa-

This is another bit of animation practice, in preparation for my 2D animated series called: The Sundial of Shadows, a story inspired by The Legend of Zelda. You can learn more about the project over on my Patreon <3 It’s a hella big project and I’ll need all the help I can get while working on it, so please consider pledging $1 a month to my Patreon. Often I am too shy to ask, but your help would truly make a difference to what I can accomplish outside of commissions and adoptables; which tend to consume most of my time and energy. In exchange for your support, you’ll of course have exclusive access to patron-only content, including WIPs and sneak peeks to do with this project, and everything else I’m working on. We’re still in our infant stage animation-wise, but I have managed to begin the storyboarding for episode 1, which is six pages worth of Link, on my Patreon, waiting to be viewed!  I hope you enjoy this little sample of animation, and thank you guys for your patience, encouragement and support! xxx PATREON | DEVIANTART | TWITTER | PICARTO | SOCIETY6  

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By Michaela Magaela Ďurišová

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Perfume bottle consisting of eight enameled glass bottles as orange segments, set in painted ceramic holder. (ca. 1925)

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China’s netizens are all in a twitter over the account of a carpenter who was commissioned to make a cinnabar red high-backed chair with the finials at the top to be “in the shape of dragons’ heads” (chéng lóngtóu 成龍頭).  Unfortunately, he misinterpreted the directions to mean “[in the shape of] Jackie Chan’s head” (“Chénglóng tóu 成龍頭”).

(via Language Log » Reanalysis, Jackie Chan edition)

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LMAO ok so to elaborate on this absolute gem, notice how the characters provided for “in the shape of dragons’ heads” and “[in the shape of] Jackie Chan’s head” are identical? That wasn’t a typo.

The thing you need to understand about Chinese names is that they all have meaning. And I don’t mean that in the sense of “if you trace the etymology back through two languages it has its roots in a Hebrew phrase that means “God is my ____” that many Western names have. I mean that in the sense of “almost all of these words are still in regular use today and my parents very literally named me “pretty [and] wise” in Chinese.

(Sidenote: This is why we get annoyed at made-up ‘Chinese’ names that just pull two random vaguely Chinese-sounding syllables together. It is blindingly obvious when it’s not a real name).

成 (chéng) means “to become”, “to turn into”. 龍 (lóng) is “dragon”. Thus, Jackie Chan’s Chinese stage name,  成龍 (Chénglóng), literally means “become dragon”. (頭 (tóu), of course, means “head”)  

(Further sidenote: This is actually a bit of a pun/reference. Specifically, it is a reference to Bruce Lee, whose stage name was 小龍 (Xiǎolóng), or, “Little dragon”. So Jackie’s chosen stage name means both “become dragon”, and “become [like] Bruce Lee”)

The other thing you need to know about Chinese is that we don’t put spaces between terms in written text.

What all this means is that the way you’d write “[carve] into dragon heads” can be identical to the way you’d write “[carve] Jackie Chan’s head”, and literally the only difference would be where you pause when you vocalise it: before lóngtóu, or after chénglóng. XD

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i think the chair turned out great

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Educational and delightful all in one

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theyre on a date

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My sea

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Pixel art based on a photo I took while waiting for a bus in #Kyoto 5 years ago. I thought the bus shelter awning would make a cool place to draw a train on! The ‘making of’ gif and HD version are available for my Patrons (https://www.patreon.com/guttykreum). Sharing my art is a way to help support me if you’re not into #Patreon. Thanks! #pixelart #animation #Japan #ドット絵

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Bulgarian Demon Chasers. Photography: Aron Klein. Source

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“Kukeri is an ancient pagan ritual practiced annually across the Balkan mountain regions where local men wear carved wooden masks of beasts’ faces and hang heavy bells around their waists as they perform arcane dances,” says London-based photographer Aron Klein. The Kukeri Project is Aron’s magical and dreamlike series that consists of hypnotic images of large men in carnivalesque costumes, posing menacingly in the wintry Bulgarian mountains. 

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/aron-klein-bulgarian-demon-chasers-photography-090118

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ambidexterous:

Fantastic hybrids of menswear and corsetry by Sylvain Nuffer.

*walks to a corner and dies*

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Wannnnnt

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@thebibliosphere saw this and thought of Vlad

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Oooh very nice.

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Vibrant Photos Pay Homage to Slavic Folklore through High-Fashion Portraits

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Abandoned children’s shoes [750x954]