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Research: Design in Nature

Today we are featuring insect plates from Research: Design in Nature, edited by John Gilbert Wilkins, published by the Field Museum of Natural History and the School of the Art Institute Chicago in 1924. The portfolio features over 200 leaves of plates that were printed in the Field Museum pressroom. The drawings featured in the plates were created by many different artists, including some of Wilkins’ students. The plates are photogravures, and Wilkins notes that “it is possibly the best method of reproducing the soft pleasing effects of the pencil renderings.”

Research: Design in Nature includes a wide variety of plant and animal drawings, highlighting the design elements that can be found in nature. Today we are focusing on insects because they show both the horrifying and beautiful aspects of the natural world.

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–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Assistant

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what's your best meme Claudia?? I wanna see what you got.

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[id: tweet by buffalocialism reading “if you have so many prisoners that you have to deny them the right to vote because they would significantly impact election results, the main substantive problem is that you live in a police state”]

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By: Tao Wu

[rabbitinthemeadow]

The resting mist in the witch’s wood // Part 7

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Alien world

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Agnieszka Lepka - Human vs Nature

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pet dragon 

edit: I DREW THIS I did not glue fur onto my snake fhdjskgfk

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For most of human history, Vehicles had automatic collision avoidance and could even take you home when you were sleeping or drunk. Then we got rid of the horse.

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

you complete moron. you stupid fucking idiot. “cars would be better if they could bite and shit” that was you just now, dumbass

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“Wouldn’t it but cool if cars could piss? Wouldn’t it be cool if cars could fuck?”

Fuck off.

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it would be cool if cars could fuck

[elodieunderglass]

We. We still have horses

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this post was the pitch meeting for the Cars movies universe

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@ other folks with depression. Listen. As someone who was diagnosed with it 16 years ago, and who’s gone through some real rough patches;

If you ever feel like there’s no point trying to improve anything or trying to get better because it won’t work and there’s no point, why even bother to try, that is your Depression Brain fucking lying to you.

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something a therapist told me years ago that has helped me was to try and think of those depressive thoughts as coming from someone else.

would you be ok with a random, separate person telling you “you’re worthless, you’re useless, you’re garbage, you’ll never get better,” or would that just piss you off?

you might be tempted to think “yes, of course I’d be okay with it because they’d be right,” but no. imagine if it were someone irl you didn’t like: a rude relative, a coworker you can’t stand, some random person on the street - if you wouldn’t tolerate it from them then don’t tolerate it from yourself.

it’s easier said than done, i know, but you can do it. accept that rejecting those thoughts will be difficult and uncomfortable and then do it anyway. next time you feel up to it, write out a list of things you like about yourself and keep it handy. when you’re sad and start having mean thoughts, read one compliment for every bad thing you say to yourself. do that over and over, don’t let those bad thoughts win.

you can do this.

[wetwareproblem]

To add to that (and yes, it’s an extremely good tip that is a huge part of my recovery), there’s a simple phrase that people with depressed loved ones can learn to help reinforce this:

“Please don’t talk about my friend like that.”

It’s gentle, and conveys “you are loved” and “you deserve better” in one breath, and drives home that it’s Not Cool.

Hat tip to @chemipedia, who is relentless in using this on me even when I make self-deprecating jokes, and made it part of my toolkit.

[kyidyl]

“it’s easier said than done, i know, but you can do it. accept that rejecting those thoughts will be difficult and uncomfortable and then do it anyway.” This is something people don’t talk about enough when discussing recovery and coping with mental illness. I don’t have depression, but I do have anxiety & adhd. Now, you don’t really recover from adhd…it’s a difference in thinking much the way that autism is. But my anxiety manifests as a panic disorder not as GAD. Which means like most of the time I’m ok…unless I try to leave the house or unless I’m thinking about something that for some reason I have feels about and my brain hasn’t processed those feels. And you know what happens? My guts cramp up painfully. It feels like a fist in my intestines. My skin tingles like I’m being bitten all over. My heart races. The temperature in the room goes up 38374657382991 degrees. It’s *physically uncomfortable*. And this happens a lot before I go to leave the house because my brain is like “let’s think of every uncomfortable thing while we’re attempting to leave”. A couple of times I’ve barfed my entire guts up before even getting downstairs. Like mental illness can be very, very physical. But you know what? There is a difference between not being able to do something and not being able to do something *comfortably*. And before you can do something comfortably you have to be able to do it uncomfortably. And here’s the thing…when you are deeeeeeep in the throes of your mental illness EVERYTHING is uncomfortable but unless you power through the discomfort you’re never going to get better. You cannot skip over it, it’s part of recovery. It’s part of facing down your brain. Because you have two choices: you either face down the discomfort and live your life, or you stay miserable. That’s it, those are the only two choices in front of you, and each of them leads to a different place. So you can either suck it up and be uncomfortable and power through and eventually feel better.

And for the love of god, eat and sleep. The process of doing all this is goddamned exhausting and you can’t do it if you’re tired and have no fuel. I once told my therapist that I was exhausted all the time even though I wasn’t really doing anything. Rather than just be like “yeah that’s how it is”, she was like “no but you are doing something. You’re fighting your anxiety every day. You’re dealing with it every day, and that’s exhausting”. And I don’t mean mentally, it’s physically exhausting. Your brain uses more calories than anything else in your body. Like I have literally studied so hard before that I’ve made myself hungry. You can do the same thing while deep in the depression pit or deep in the anxiety pit. Your brain is going all the time with no rest and that makes you tired and sucks up calories. So if you give your body what it needs to get better then you will have an easier time of it. Sleep, friend, and eat, and learn to live with discomfort and pain because it’s an important part of getting better. It’s part of living.

[galaf]

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How I draw skin Part 2: DON”T DRAW NATIVE PEOPLE WITH RED SKIN!!!! A tutorial

For the first tutorial on how I draw skin, see the post here.

But seriously, I’ve seen too many drawings of Native characters with literal red/pink skin to count so just in case some of you are having troubles with drawing Native people, I’ve provided a guide for you. Please take my swatches if it helps!! and no more red skinned people, please <0<

Disclaimer: this tutorial is mainly about the artistic depictions of Indigenous Peoples in North America, where the slur and redskin caricature originated, but it would still be racist to draw other non-North/Central/South American Indigenous groups like this so…..don’t.

[archaeos]

Hi

Please look at this bowl, made in Egypt almost 6000 years ago. Look at it.

I love it. Thank you for your time.

[elodieunderglass]

Yeah!!

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