radiodark

baltimore-based artist, acrobat, & puppeteer indexing my inspirations here. formerly milkcratetheft

[calvinanddune]

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience

[frostedmagnolias]

Grass and Beetle Wing Basket

early 20th century

made in India

Powerhouse Collection

[frostedmagnolias]

artwork by my father on paperbags ♡

[steelnail]

Are you free from your curse yet i miss you

[frostedmagnolias]

Ivory comb with hunting scene and dancers

c. 1440-1470

Netherlands

Victoria and Albert Museum

[nuclearbummer]

[wiigiwaamcore]

David Cusick was a Tuscarora (Haudenosaunee) artist who self-published the first known English-language record of Indigenous stories told BY an Indigenous writer-illustrator. His book is called David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations and you can read it for free online.

[frostedmagnolias]

Venetian Carnivale Poison Ring

c. 1760

gold, enamel, garnets, rose diamonds

maker unknown, Vienna, Austria

Powerhouse Collection

[yesterdaysprint]

The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 31, 1907

[cuties-in-codices]

gifts from above (miniature of the gathering of the manna; border illustration of men pouring out baskets of wild pansies with people gathering them)

page from a richly illuminated book of hours commissioned by an unknown member of the franciscan order and produced in flanders, late 15th c.

source: Munich, BSB, Clm 28345, fol. 89r

[tridentandtales]

Greek or Egyptian rhyton with griffins

3rd - 2nd century BCE

Walters Art Museum 48.368

[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Culturally significant forbidden candy

[hitmyvape]

did u kno... my group fruits of heaven has two singles out. take a gander if youd like.

[oneheadtoanother]

[acid-aholic]

remember that guy that had a single auditory hallucination that told him he had a brain tumor and the exact location and then he went to the doctor and it was fucking right

[penglue]

[evenlyevi]

Moonlight Dandelions (in color) - original bw ver!

[joeinct]

Mujer y máscara (Woman with Mask), Mexico, Photo by Kati Horna, 1963

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

thinking about when my friend found a book from the 70s in a church office with truly some of the most insane prayers I have ever heard