[nevver]

Night at the Museum

[wxmatija]

[junmayers]

‘Artist House Leiko Ikemura’ by Architect Philipp von Matt

[ametoraeye]

[worldsandemanations]

A view from a plane window at 36,000 feet above Sahara Desert. @menavisualss

[wxmatija]

[consecuences]

[zegalba]

Volcanic Vineyards of La Geria

[zegalba]

Susanne Ussing: 'I Drivhuset' (1980)

Installation by Danish visual artist and architect Susanne Ussing, that was installed at the Ordrupgaard Museum in Copenhagen. The sculpture depicts a female figure who has seemingly grown too large for (or has become trapped by) a very tall glass greenhouse.

[whatdoyouwanttobecalled000]

[zegalba]

Herbert Ponting: Barne Glacier, Antarctica (1911)

[apocryphics]

lydia davis

[snakesonacartesianplane]

In the same vein:

"The simultaneous borrowing of French and Latin words led to a highly distinctive feature of modern English vocabulary: sets of three items, all expressing the same fundamental notion but differing slightly in meaning or style, e.g., kingly, royal, regal; rise, mount, ascend; ask, question, interrogate; fast, firm, secure; holy, sacred, consecrated. The Old English word (the first in each triplet) is the most colloquial, the French (the second) is more literary, and the Latin word (the last) more learned." (Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela, "Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology." Continuum, 2000)

via ThoughtCo

Though I like how John McWhorter phrases it better:

But language tends not to do what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

from "English is not normal"

[picard-schreckensberger]

Fish preservation, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

How to Wrap Five Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging

[archiveofillustration]

Illustrations done for Dishonored 2 by Piotr Jabłoński

[atlastudeo]

Wrapped Fountain Christo and Jeanne-Claude Spoleto, Italy, 1968

[gramnel]

Viking AU inspired by @everblacksoul ask

Although I didn't watch 'Vikings Valhalla' with Bradley James but I did watch the original Vikings some time ago and was really obsessed with it.

I love the idea of Merlin being the Seer

Thank you for the idea and for your support!

[lucienballard]

Prince's handwritten lyrics to "Purple Rain."