Your Friendly Neighborhood Snail :o)

22 years old yee haw

[fravery]

“Two Cats” – Kiyoshi Saito 1955

[mountainsbutch]

someone: ahaha zoning out much? anyone home??? haha

me, dissociating: What

[lycheeb]

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[daddyfuckedme]

[beejayway]

[alisonzai]

me watchng how its made

there b some specific ass machines in this world

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[playtokens]

[fxckbro]

why are there so many different kinds of pasta they all taste the same tbh

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who hurt you

[gardenofgod]

Lop-Eared Rabbit Among Wood Anemones.

[loveshocks]

[steampunktendencies]

A remarkable Jacobean re-emergence after 200 years of yellowing varnish Courtesy Philip Mould

[beyoursledgehammer]

PAINT RESTORATION OF MESMERIZING

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I saw this on Twitter. He’s using acetone, but a cellulose ether has been added to make it into a gel (probably Klucel—this entire gel mixture is sometimes just called Klucel by restorers, but Klucel is specifically the stuff that makes the gel). 

Normally, acetone is too volatile for restoration, but when it’s a gel, it becomes very stable and a) stays on top of the porous surface of the painting, and b) won’t evaporate. So it can eat up the varnish.

It looks scary, but acetone has no effect on oils, and jelly acetone is even less interactive with the surface of the paint or canvas.

[ooh-sluggie]

Will someone PLEASE clean the mona lisa

[hustleerr]

I literally thought this is what paintings looked like back in those days, I didn’t know it was yellowing varnish 👀

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petition to make it illegal for men to yell

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