I found my family in a book

[strijkdesign]

Love this design I would need to work a bit on the proportions. But I'd love to play a bit more with the betafish mermaid concept

[beammeupplease]

Muratami Yutaka

[percyfraser]

Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace PROJECT HAIL MARY 2026 — dir. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

[miniangel]

miffy with a pearl earring i adore you

[snowbairdd]

Look, love is not something we wind up, something we set or control. Love is just like art: a force that comes into our lives without any rules, expectations or limitations. Love like art, must always be free.

SENSE8 (2015 - 2018) cr. Lana and Lilly Wachowski, J. Michael Straczynski

[luckykittycolor]

[neon-radish]

Guys I think I know how a plasma gun works now

[idislikethissite]

Shinzo abe kind of mechanism

[beifong-brainrot]

Vampire in the Garden is a devastating show, but I will admit that the scene where Momo's uncle breaks into the mansion and is like "I'm here to save you!" and her reaction is genuinely just "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU" is absolutely hysterical to me. And the fact that she hit him with a car almost immediately after is the cherry on top.

[ieafy]

I can’t stop drawing mantises I fear

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[usergambit]

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[owenhcrper]

I'm not an astronaut. I put the "not" in astronaut. Project Hail Mary

[bumblesteak]

A necromancer AND a gardener (5 year redesign) 🌸

[tikklil]

Coco see, Coco do

[nikki-rook]

I do have a question

[solar-sunnyside-up]

I feel like yall don't know bout earthships??

An earthship is a building that's built out of recycled materials (glass bottles, old tires, cans, etc..) and mostly Cob walls with solarpanels, wind turbines, greenhouses, and large water capture system to ensure all you need within the walls. All these components help regulate the temp for both plants and you creating a proper oasis from all of itnall

Here's a good dissection of one to give you an idea

The most famous one, and one of the first ones ever made back in the 1970s by a small off grid group working together is The Phoenix which was built as the model for how cool these guys could be its now a place you can take tours or rent-

But now there is so many different styles and cool ideas for it! Now some of these are merely concepts

But you can adapt them to any weather for your particular light/weather/energy conditions.

The main thing about Earthships is typically they are illegal to build as the US government considers them waste sites due to the materials their built out of.

[plantyhamchuk]

ok, so the good thing about Earthships is that they use passive solar design. passive solar design is wonderful and ideally ALL of our buildings - residential, commercial, industrial - would use it. passive solar designed structures use far less energy than conventional buildings, b/c it takes the sun and climate into account, and cleverly places materials to keep things a more moderate and comfortable climate indoors. great stuff! Passivhaus is one example of many when it comes to passive solar design. considering how much energy is used to heat/cool homes around the planet, this is a huge deal environmentally, not just economically.

the bad thing about Earthships is that they are often made with waste materials such as tires and tires are actually extremely filthy on multiple levels and used tires are even worse. there are numerous accounts of people getting sick from the tires and other used garbage offgassing inside their earthships. Even the guy who invented the earthship - a pretty controversial figure - no longer actually lives in one. he still promotes the hell out of them and makes money from building them to people who are either ignorant or just don't care.

There are many interesting and innovative ways to (re)build our spaces, what materials work best depends a great deal on climate. Researching traditional architecture for a given region can also reveal a ton of clever ideas for how to keep buildings comfortable, pre-industrial revolution. How do you keep a house cool in the Southern USA? Very tall ceilings, big open wrap around porches, houses situated in the direction of the prevailing winds with lots of windows to allow breezes to flow through, etc. etc. If you had access to electricity you could use fans, especially a fan at the highest point of the house to draw the heat up and out. That's one a few details out of one example out of countless options the world over.

Don't limit your thinking to just earthships, there's a whole world of out there.

[dramatic-dolphin]

a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.

my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.

[dramatic-dolphin]

okay I found it, it's The Best Policy by Randall Garrett

and it has other gems such as "I know beyond a shadow of a doubt what every member of my race thinks of you" (they don't know you exist) and "every human knows exactly as much about the location of your home planet as I do" (nothing)

[calyxaomphalos]

It's short, three pages, and it's free on line.

Read The Best Policy Page 1 by Randall Garrett online free high quality at Book Read Free.

[isuggestlandback]

If you ever wondered why they call tattoos and piercings "unprofessional" and "unsophisticated"

Source: Lainey Molnar