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[otiksimr]

Poorly drawn Pokemon of Myth

[nikosonn]

what if…

[historyisntboring]

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos

The woman, aged about 50, was buried in a Siberian ice cave and discovered millennia later.

She was a 50 y.o. Siberian woman from 2500 years ago, living a nomadic lifestyle, and look at her tattoos...

Look...

I'm going to cry

[burins]

here is the full open access article from the researchers! one big takeaway for me is that almost every mummy we've found from the Pazyryk culture has had these intricate tattoos (although these are a particularly beautiful example.) the older the person, the more tattoos they tend to have. so this was a widespread cultural practice, not just one rad grandma! highly recommend giving the article a read - there's a ton of really neat details about how the researchers (including a modern tattoo artist) analyzed the art styles and techniques (relatively similar to modern stick and poke, but with a multi-pointed implement for all but the smallest details)

The absence of overlapping images or compositions in the corpus of preserved examples suggests that the construction of tattooed bodies in Pazyryk culture was approached in a structured and deliberate manner throughout an individual’s lifetime. This implies both planning and intentionality in tattoo placement and design. The confirmed use of multiple tools and stylistic variations on a single body also reveals that tattooing in Pazyryk culture was associated with a high degree of craft specialisation and was probably performed by multiple individuals. In this regard, the collaboration between modern tattooists and archaeological researchers has been invaluable in not only illuminating the techniques used by ancient tattooists but also in fostering a deeper appreciation for their artistry and skills, enriching our understanding of past societies and their intricate relationship with body modification.

the whole thing just kind of made me emotional about the great continuity of artistry across space and time. humans love to change our bodies and we put time and effort into making those changes meaningful and beautiful to us! a modern tattoo artist was instrumental in helping understand what some of the finer marks might signify about methods and practice!

also don't sleep on her rooster thumb tattoo

[catadromously]

séance

[mellific]

i’ve been doing some illustrations for @YearOnEarth over on twitter, who is tweeting the history of the earth compressed into one calendar year. now’s a great time to tune in–dinosaurs went extinct yesterday, and the first dogs* just appeared! (*caniforms)

1.  True Sauropods, like Vulcanodons, emerge from the mass extinction at the start of the Jurassic. (x)

2. Snakes begin to appear during the Cretaceous. (x)

3. An explosion in the complexity of plant life covers the planet in greenery. (x)

4. A sudden decrease in CO2 corresponds with a massive growth of the Azolla fern in the arctic. (x)

5. Placoderms (armoured fish), become extinct along with most jawless fish. (x)

6. The continent of Laurasia collides with several smaller continents forming the super continent, Rodinia. (x)

7. Anomolacaris, the Cambrian super predator, munches its way around the seabed. (x)

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

@catadromously this seems like your speed, friendy 

[abz-j-harding]

Drew the unicorn.

(Spinosaurus mirabilis)

[doodlemancy]

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)

✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈

[kroovv]

Creatures 🌿

[xanaxfarts]

Hadal: 'love language' robe with an Arabic love poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish embroidered onto the sleeve.

The poem reads:

قالوا: تموت بها حبـاًً، فقلـت لهـم. ألا اذكروها علـى قبـري فتحيينـي

English translation: They asked "Do you love her to death?" | said "Speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life."

[most-sane-classicist]

chained up to the mountain, straight up "losing it" and by "it" , haha, well, let's justr say, my liver

[faithschaffer]

Sharing my end credit illustrations for Knights of Guinevere to celebrate the premiere! 🥳🥳🥳 The pilot is up now on YouTube, please go check it out. Everyone brought their A game for this and it really shows. ;_;

I'll share some of the background layouts I did for the pilot soon but in the meantime, shhhh…. 🤫 They're dreaming 💙

[natequarter]

nosferatu? non. VOSferatu. c'est pas mon problême

[stsebastiens]

finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

[kaijutegu]

It was stupid good. So good in fact that the bbc filmed a version and put it on dvd when it debuted. I bought that dvd after I saw the show and put it up on the Internet Archive. The audio is not great but the dancing is spectacular. Ever see a pas de deux around an anatomical dissection? You will.

[podcastwizard]

if you're in the throes of cosmic despair i cannot recommend museums enough. art or science or history it doesn't matter. oh we're all connected, all of us and everything, throughout all time and space, and no one, no one, no one is alone? awesome. that's what i thought i just wanted to make sure.

[naamahdarling]

If you are in th USA and on SNAP and can't afford museum prices, check out Museums For All, which offers free or reduced admission to a LOT of museums, zoos, etc. to families on SNAP.

Museums for All

PLEASE use this service. People using it helps make sure funding for it remains available!

It reduced our cost getting into our local INCREDIBLE art museum from $30 to $1. We still had to pay for the special traveling exhibit, but the reduced price meant we COULD see the traveling exhibit!!!

And spread this link as often as you can. Email it to friends on SNAP right now. It is so important that lower income people get to see things like animals and art, too. It should not be limited to the rich. Thanks to this program, in many places, it isn't.

Go! Go go go!

[the-real-seebs]

Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum - Wikipedia

There is so much amazing about this. It's an archeological museum in 530 BCE or so. Also, the exhibits are labeled in three languages. Also they apparently had replicas on display for some things, much like modern museums do.

Humanity has not really changed that much, and some of the ways in which we haven't changed are really good.

[starsong-dragonheart]

Y'all, I am BEGGING you to click through and read that short Wikipedia article. It's the earliest museum we've ever discovered. It was part of the state of Ur.

This is the Ur-Museum!

[vigilantsycamore]

Some of the artifacts in this museum date as far back as the 20th century BCE, which would have been as long ago to Ennigaldi-Nanna as the fall of the western roman empire is for us

[penseesduncookie]

[cuartosol]

stormblessed?