Take the Snow Train

Name's Kim. I'm hella gay. I make art too yeah.

[magical-mikuri]

It’s been a ride guys!

This is gonna be my last post on this site before I log off forever. I just wanna say I appreciate every single note and follow I’ve received on here and I thank you guys greatly! You can follow me any on these social media sites:

Twitter (most active)

Instagram

Pixiv

I just wanna thank every single one of my followers and I will definitely try to follow you guys back! I will keep any blog of mine that doesn’t get shut down up for archival purposes.

I miss yous and I hope you have a great holiday!

Magical-Mikuri (aka Glitter-Clams)

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[lansane]

[magical-mikuri]

So I will abandoning this account on December 17th and keeping it up only for archival use

Here’s my other social media:

Twitter (most active)

Instagram

Pixiv

I also have a PokeFarm account if anyone plays that!

[magical-mikuri]

So I will abandoning this account on December 17th and keeping it up only for archival use

Here’s my other social media:

Twitter (most active)

Instagram

Pixiv

I also have a PokeFarm account if anyone plays that!

[bland-pokemon-headcanons]

Porygon need to be vaccinated against computer viruses on a regular basis.

Porygon who spend a lot of time on the Internet have a significantly lower metabolism than ones that spend more time in the “real world.” Great care must be taken to prevent them from becoming overweight.

Porygon cannot walk quickly. However, many enjoy being carried. Special backpacks with buckles allow trainers to give the Pokémon piggy-back rides.

[inthetags]

reblog with the last song you listened to in the tags

[legoisland]

I hate you.

[legoisland]

every time this goes around I age 10 years

[esperlesbian]

[esmemarion]

@magical-mikuri

[realmsss]

[bummass]

Dove chocolate and Dove soap are two different companies who havent sued each other because they have different trademarks lol

[gaycism]

Damn and I really all this time just thought dove (the soap people) had a meeting one day and were just like “…. we might fuck around and make some chocolate”

[fatfreefiddlefaddle-deactivated]

^literally what I thought

[timbllr]

[uwmspeccoll]

Greek Ornament in The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles 

Today we are featuring Greek decorative plates from The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles, Part I: Antiquity by Alexander Speltz, published in Leipzig, Germany in 1915 by Baumgärtner. The multi volume portfolio was produced with three color and four color printing based on Speltz’s original watercolor paintings.

In a preface to the Part I, Spetz wrote:

“In accomplishing this work special attention has been paid to the possibility of easily finding the text belonging to each figure, and to a classification according to the chronology of art history and archeology, for this work is not merely intended to be a standard for the polychromatic ornament, but also a resource for the study of history of art and archaeology.

If this work, whose first part herewith published and whose further parts Medieval Period, Renaissance, and Rococo Style, Classicism will follow as soon as possible, contributes to revive that sense of colours lost in this our prosaic time and helps to restore to our generation that delightful rejoicing in beautiful forms and colours, the writer’s end has been achieved.”  

View more posts about decorative arts and pattern books.

–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Assistant

[nojillnolife]

[suddenlysomewherethatsgreen]

Look at this! Look at this fucking thing! This was done in 1986, and used absolutely no CGI whatsoever. It was ALL practical, and ALL done through puppetry. Look at the last gif. Over a dozen vines are moving at once along with its head, lips, and tongue! In interviews Rick Moranis has stated he often forgot he was working with a puppet, as opposed to a really ugly guy. Even today it looks so real. Audrey ii is nothing short of miraculous

[diamogeddon-likes]

IM SORRY WHAT

[imtoobiforyou]

WHAT

[midnightsylph1]

It took over 60 puppeteers to operate Audrey II’s final form in the film. You can read more about the puppet’s creation and operation here.

[inthenameofpeacewemakewar-deact]

The practical effects of Little Shop of Horrors was fucking astounding.  It’s worth it to mention that, in the scenes where the plant is moving, the filming was slowed to 12 to 16 frames a second, so that the film could be sped up to give the Audrey II a more lifelike appearance.  In such scenes where actors like Rick Moranis had to speak with the plant, he had to mouth his lines at a slower-than-normal speed while still looking convincing, only to have his voice added in post. 

It’s also worth mentioning that a crew of 60+ puppeteers were needed to operate the plant, as the entire puppet weighed over a ton. 

[bogleech]

It’s so strangely entertaining to see people finding out with shock that these movies didn’t use computer effects. This movie came out when I was little and still feels like a recent phenomenon to me. I’d never even personally seen a computer outside of a cartoon at the time, nobody else I knew had, and computer generated images just weren’t a concept the average person ever even imagined. I mean, I was there when THIS was considered the most jaw-dropping cutting edge of video game graphics, some time after Little Shop of Horrors would have come out:

CG effects didn’t go mainstream until Jurassic Park, and even that still used gigantic puppets and animatronics for many of its scenes.

Puppetry by the late 80′s had been refined to the point of really looking like a flesh and blood creature, but then Hollywood became enamored with computer effects and started all over again. It feels like CG here in 2018 is only just now managing to look as real as 1989′s latex puppet work, but still looks really off to me. There’s still no perfect replacement for a real, physical on-set object.

[artsy-theo]

Lapras under the aurora!

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[pitbulljpeg]

my brother’s bday is coming up so i drew his favorite pokemon :)