nothing/much

[dreamstormed]

Song of the Sea (2014)

[mysterytheater]

Satyr with Ram’s Head  by Arthur Rackham

[archaeos]

Hi

Please look at this bowl, made in Egypt almost 6000 years ago. Look at it.

I love it. Thank you for your time.

[elodieunderglass]

Yeah!!

[dedorongolas]

@thatlittleegyptologist @rudjedet but why tho?

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I’m gonna go with that absolutely classic Archaeological hit song:

“Ritual purposes, but in the sense that we know it’s definitely some sort of ritual but not what the fuck the ritual was but likely the act of ‘bringing’ since feet indicate movement in later hieroglyphs for the word ‘to bring’ which also incidentally is a pot on two legs, but this cannot be considered a direct correlation. *20 second instrumental* So yeah, ritual purposes because none of us know what the fuck Pre Dynastic Egypt was doing but it was definitely ritualistic in the same sense that some people having a preferred coffee mug is ritualistic. It’s not spooky we just don’t quite know why they did it.” 

Sometimes you just don’t know why, and that’s history for you.

[centuriespast]

MINIATURIST, French Medical Miscellany 11th century Manuscript (MS Lat. 7028) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

[archivings]

Chloe Fall/Winter 1983

[casbean]

My nature documentary obsession: Life, season 1 episode 2

“The pebble toad can’t hop, but it has a different defence. It tenses its muscles, becomes rigid and turns itself into a rubber ball. It’s so tiny and weights so little that bouncing doesn’t hurt it at all.”

[maundrette]

Pebble toad throws itself off the cliff to avoid predatory tarantula. I’ve been thinking about this toad for months now.

[99percentinvisible]

These are some of the last women practicing the art of free-diving in South Korea. Known as the Haenyeo, they would dive to the seafloor for hundreds of years, fishing for fresh shellfish. The dying off Haenyeo represent the semi-matriarchal familiy structure of the Korean province of Jeju. For the majority of their incomes, the women would be the heads of their households. Seoul-born Photographer Hyung S. Kim portrayed the proud Haenyeo women. Some are already in their nineties, still diving for fresh fish.

[maundrette]

Forthcoming glossary of urban spaces by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, founder of Holes of Matter (x), via Harvard GSD lecture, “Things as Holes” (x).

[maundrette]

From Style Sheet: a conversation with my copy editor - interview by Edan Lepucki with Susan Brandanini Betz for The Millions.

Creating style sheets is the secret to catching small errors. I am obsessed with my style sheets. I keep a word list, a character list, a list of places (fictional and real), a chronology, a general style sheet, a list of hyphenated modifiers, and any other list that helps me keep track of everything. I usually fact check as I go, although when I’m pressed for time I make a list of items to look up later, sometimes after I’ve returned the manuscript to the publisher. In those cases, I send a list of corrections that can be added by the production editor to the first pass. (Ha-ha, if someone else wrote this paragraph, I’d query the repeat of “list” — I used it seven times in five sentences.)

[maundrette]

Detail of illuminated "A" for Bible of Sweetheart Abbey, 1260-1270. Judith: slaying Holofernes -- In tent, Judith, wearing berbette, with sword in right hand cuts off crowned head of Holofernes reclining asleep on draped mattress.

[maundrette]

"Beheading of John the Baptist." Detail fromThe Gospel of Mark as a Picture Gallery, Johann Ulrich Kraus (1655-1719), 1705.