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Beer and pizza and mushy stuff with @donutsdevitt loving that post-comp diet #lifeboatswhoarestackingiton (at Forester's Beer & Music Hall)

#lifeboatswhoarestackingiton

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Two Medieval Monks Invent Bestiaries

By Mallory Ortberg on The Toast

MONK #1: do birds have meetings MONK #2: absolutely they have a Meeting Hat and everything MONK #1: what do they have meetings about MONK #2: mostly who gets to wear the meeting hat

MONK #1: do human women sleep in beds or– MONK #2: no that’s dogs you’re thinking of MONK #1: right right

MONK #1: what part of the knight do fish go on MONK #2: the head MONK #1: thanks MONK #2: oh absolutely no problem at all MONK #1: both lying flatwise across the head, or…? MONK #2: no one on each side like ears MONK #1: ok great

MONK #1: so when a dog and a bird make out MONK #2: right MONK #1: it’s usually the bird that’s on top right? MONK #2: yeah usually MONK #1: great

MONK #1: hey is it owls or people that live in caves and build fires? MONK #2: owls

MONK #1: hey roughly what size are sparrows MONK #2: mm it kind of depends MONK #1: like AS big as a tree or not quite as big as a tree? MONK #2: oh pretty much the same size as a tree

MONK #1: can cows sail boats? MONK #2: hahaha no common misconception they have to put wheels on the boat and roll it over land

MONK #1: what do birds eat MONK #2: other birds mostly MONK #1: like different kinds of birds, or something else MONK #2: no birds only eat exactly the same kind of birds that they are

MONK #1: what kind of bird tucks people into bed at night usually I mean MONK #2: any bird any kind of walking bird MONK #1: and when it tucks you in, people usually look… MONK #2: incredibly worried it’s incredibly worrying when the bedbird tucks you in

MONK #1: ugh sorry to bother you again MONK #2: no no its fine this is what i’m here for what is it MONK #1: what part of a goat is a snail again like the front end or the back end MONK #2: what part do you feel like should be the snail part MONK #1: the back part? MONK #2: you shouldnt doubt yourself you know more about goats than you give yourself credit for

MONK #1: what usually rides horses like people or– MONK #2: fire

effington

Tbh this is the funniest post on this dumb website

rhiannonmcgavin

new texting lingo

omfh- o, my frail heart!

ftss- fetch the smelling salts

iatwbb- i await thee with bated breath

fw- forsooth, wherefore?!

aml- ay, my liege

notmodernart

I support this

huariqueje

Jeunes filles avec des roses ,Girl With Roses (Detail) - T.Mazzoni 1877

inspirationfeed

Accidental art… http://ift.tt/1EriFax

irakalan

STUNNING MINIATURE SCULPTURES BY JOE FIG

Joe Fig is an artist born and raised in Long Island, New York. Fig’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Joe Fig’s naturalism and attention to detail are astounding, his sculptures (Table Sculptures / Artist at work), paintings and photographs have garnered critical acclaim and can be found in numerous museums and private collections. In his new book, ‘Inside the Painter’s Studio’, artist Joe Fig documents the day-to-day lives of 24 contemporary artists with photos of their studios, notes on their work habits, and interviews about where and how they make art.

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This week something adorable will be posted: fluorescence thermochromism!

During the last few weeks I have prepared ~25 new, not yet described compound that have a weak or strong fluorescence thermochromism. This means they emit an other color under UV lamp at a different temperatures. Most of these compounds work at -195 °C where liquid nitrogen boils, but some of them show some effect at -100 to -70 °C.

How do these work? Depending on the temperature the bonds in these molecules change a lot what means they can absorb and emit different wavelength. As seen on the pictures, on the first there are the compounds, each ampule contains 100 mg. When irradiated with UV light at room temperature (second pics) few of them emit some visible light, but when they are cooled down with liquid nitrogen (last pics) most of the compounds emit a different wavelength light with a different intensity.

thegetty

Paints & Pigments 101

Color vocab from Victoria Finlay’s book The Brilliant History of Color (PS! join us over on the twitters at 10am PST / 1pm ET / 6pm GMT today to hang out with three awesome women who are experts in all things color).

BINDER—Material that holds pigment particles together, such as glue, oil, egg, or acrylic, enabling the creation of paint.

DYE—Colored material that dissolves in a binder; mostly used for coloring fabrics.

FUGITIVE—Adjective to describe pigment that darkens, changes color, or (especially) fades with exposure to light.

LAKE—A type of paint made from dye by fixing it with a mordant onto a white mineral powder, such as clay, crushed bone, or salt.

MORDANT—Substance such as metals, urine, alum, or even smoke that is mixed with dyes to “fix” them (prevent them from washing out). From the Latin for “biting,” because it causes color to get its teeth into fibers and not let go!

PAINT—Pigment suspended in a binder.

PIGMENT—Colored powder that can be suspended in a binder to make paint. From the Latin pingere, meaning “to paint.” Samples from the manuscripts conservation studio at the Getty Museum. From top: fugitive dye; cochineal insects; Brazil wood.

flyartproductions

New slaves

Spoliarium (1884), Juan Luna / Haunted, Beyoncé

notmodernart

I saw this work when I worked at the National Museum of the Phillipines in August

doe-antlers-blog

*artist paints a woman who's not upper class*

Art Historians: “She’s a prostitute”

nightlifemingus

renaissance painters: what is a baby? a small man?

laughingsquid

The Remarkable 18-Month Effort to Repair an $11 Million Monet Painting After a Man Punched a Hole in It

kelskicksass

notmodernart I’m sure you’ve seen this but it still reminded me of you

notmodernart

Thanks kelskicksass There's a game online too where you can punch the Monet. I've done a heiber thread by thread tear repair too (that they would have done to this) (see my profile pic actually!) and it was one of the most stressful experiences of my life. But so worth it

conservethis

The blue and gold braided beard on the burial mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with epoxy, damaging the relic after it was knocked during cleaning, conservators at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo said on Wednesday.

The museum is one of the city’s main tourist sites, but in some areas, ancient wooden sarcophagi lay unprotected from the public, while pharaonic burial shrouds, mounted on walls, crumble from behind open panels of glass. Tutankhamun’s mask, over 3,300 years old, and other contents of his tomb are its top exhibits.

Three of the museum’s conservators reached by telephone gave differing accounts of when the incident occurred last year, and whether the beard was knocked off by accident while the mask’s case was being cleaned, or was removed because it was loose.

They agree however that orders came from above to fix it quickly and that an inappropriate adhesive was used. All spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisals.

"Unfortunately he used a very irreversible material - epoxy has a very high property for attaching and is used on metal or stone but I think it wasn’t suitable for an outstanding object like Tutankhamun’s golden mask," said one conservator.

File this under “what not to do”.