Owl in a box

Just stuff I do, see, think and try to spell correctly.

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[koiagain]

[thetursithan]

Ah these children who always create problems for poor mothers....

[purlturtle]

Let's hold up traffic with mama!

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Came across this art installation, Liza Lou's Kitchen, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. It's a kitchen made of tiny glass beads, that artist Liza Lou did, taking 5 yrs. to complete, from 1991 - 1996.

My favorite part is the sink.

Details of a recipe book.

All the details in tiny glass beads.

Love the pie in the oven.

Love this so much.

No wonder it took 5 yrs.

https://whitney.org/collection/works/34855?

[the-big-mood]

[wizardshark]

How do I explain Plato's allegory of the cave to my cat?

[sexshopshenanigans]

gato’s allegory of the fishtank

[himynamesisnotemail]

[punchspeedchunk]

prev tags are not staying in the tags: #The humble ambulance

[blumineck]

Archery x flower arranging

This was actually really fun!

Anyway, don’t forget I’m still raising money to test a bunch of things in a suit of armour:

The Bluminarmour Project

Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

Wizards (1977)

[definitelynotindecisive]

[bogleech]

Oh are there people who don't know this mess of a movie has the all time most spectacular final wizard battle in the fantasy genre??

[distinguishedbaloney]

[eilooxara]

Non cooking spray stick

[eilooxara]

Non spray stick cooking

[that-house]

Non cooking stick spray

[20thcenturystarlet]

New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

[thepeelingrenoir]

The fact this isn't a painting is a testament to one of the greatest feats of set design and production I've ever seen.

[thepeelingrenoir]

My god just look at this! The lighting, set design, photography... I've just never seen anything like it.

[sisaloofafump]

This is from 1966 and you can see over a hundred photos on the NYPL digital collections website. It is absolutely gorgeous. These are just a few of my favourites.

Plus Puck's face here:

[calamitys-child]

I always say that the thing which sets Sargent apart as a portrait artist is that he draws/paints literally every subject - no matter their gender, social position, life vs representational drawing etc - like he is right that minute realising he's desperately in love with them. And it rules every single time.

[calamitys-child]

Examples pulled just from his Wikipedia page most popular works. Absolutely devastating scenes for bisexuals for over a century

[shorthistorian]

Don't forget the ALLIGATORS. He loves them too.

[tiktoksforlosers]

[jenroses]

I... I was not prepared. 

[escuerzoresucitado]

[typhus-andronicus]

[slorty]

The fact that this is completely incomprehensible to me makes it funnier than if I could understand it

[silver-tongues-blog]

skill issue. i understand it completely

[fallout-lou-begas]

it's finally that time of the year again for the clinically depressed newscaster describing february with disco elysium music

[fallout-lou-begas]

what is the single best line in this video

it's a month that doesn't hold up life any better than it really is

something great happened here but it's over with and that's the way february is

like the desperate flinging off of something that's not true anymore

the expedition is getting desperate. people are throwing things aside

this looks like a place where people who are being punished are sent

nobody is tap dancing or breaking into a rogers and hammerstein song

theyre just barely able to get across the street and hunker over a bowl of chili

most of the birds who can afford it have flown to florida

it's as if there's some awful truth out there in the trees

something that's been bothering you for a long time is out there. what is it?

to hide the bleakness of feb., man invented valentine's day. also mardi gras.

what other month can host a holiday designed to remind us we're all gonna die?

Voting ended onFeb 11

character limit forced me to paraphrase

[craymor1]

yeah,

[lackadaisycats]

February in St. Louis. (And in our hearts.)

[stevelieber]

I was talking shop with an artist in the studio today and I shared this page from Andrew Loomis, which might be the single most valuable page I've ever encountered in a how-to-draw book. I can't BEGIN to say how many hours this "hanging figures on the horizon" technique has saved me.

(EDIT: Over on another site, someone said they didn’t understand how to read this pic, so maybe adding a second pic and some explanation will help?)

Let’s say I want to draw “Joe” standing further back. I need to know where to place him so he looks like he's the same height, even though he's further away. If I get it wrong, he’ll look giant or tiny.

I can do that by making sure that the horizon cuts thru Joe AT THE SAME HEIGHT, no matter how close or far away he is. In the original picture, it cuts thru the original Joe at the waist.

So let’s look at three different Joes.

A: Wrong. Horizon goes thru his knees. In this context, he’s a giant.

B: Correct. Horizon goes thru his waist, just like the original Joe!

C: Wrong. Horizon goes thru his head. In this context, he’s tiny.

[stevelieber]

Reblogging because it's been 75 years and Loomis is still right.

[alphalesbian]

awow. awow. awow. Awow. awowAwowawowAwow awow awow awow. bup bup bupbup bup bup bup bup bup. if you even care

[alphalesbian]

btw. if you even care btw. btw

[pipebombgf]

[mysteriouslyhopefulstranger]

@aroyalbirb

[aroyalbirb]

Love them sm

[jabberding0]

Drawing table from the 1930s

[theabigailthorn]

i love guys: a friend lent me his entire box set of The World At War to get over a breakup, classic guy behaviour. it's 22 hours long so it'll be the perfect distraction, so far i'm at the point where this Hitler fellow has some bold new ideas and by the time the red army take berlin i'll be feeling fine

[theabigailthorn]

Paris (my bestie) called to say she's sorry about the breakup. Paris (France) has surrendered to the Nazis

[theabigailthorn]

Japan has launched a surprise attack on Singapore leaving British morale devastated,, just as my morale was devastated,, by a surprise text message

[theabigailthorn]

the Soviets are refusing to give up in Stalingrad..., just as I am refusing to give up... on the possibility of being loved

[theabigailthorn]

Admiral Dönitz has sunk hundreds of allied supply ships in the mid-Atlantic by pioneering new forms of U-boat warfare, just as my ship... was also sunk... my relationship

[theabigailthorn]

allied bombers flew alone, at night, and often missed their targets, similarly when I'm alone, at night, I often miss my ex

[theabigailthorn]

the American Air Force has been engaged by enemy fighters over Japan

my American bestie has become engaged to her girlfriend on vacation to Japan

[theabigailthorn]

(thank you to the people earnestly checking in but I am genuinely having a laugh writing these and it is helping me feel better lol)

June 6th was D-Day however I have not had D in several days