The Phoenix

“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.” ― Nikolai Gogol

[avadcniels]

[joethejohnston]

[visionary010]

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[mattelektras]

misery mirrors misery

[rufftoon]

“Old Hills”

“Is nature a conscious thing or a set of circumstances” (from the documentary “The End Of Time”)

Finally finished this one. Posted the WIP a few months ago. Also edited it down a lot to keep it simpler. Still got carried away with it though.

Trying to imagine a world that was starting to empty of spirits just as Jack arrived. How not all spirits have human shapes (note to self- never make it a whole environment AGAIN! Had to slap colors on the whole thing! Gah!). How hard it was, from the beginning, for Jack to have interactions even with others of his kind.

Looks like non-humanoid spirits have terrible communications skills. I’m looking at you, moon!

Might have to disappear for a few weeks-months (?), due to work. Possibly mostly just reblogs for a while.

[cpericardium]

parried three bait posts in a row

[fairexy78]

I'M CRYING LMAO

[toastbutteregg]

[helenvaughans]

[pangur-and-grim]

in front of my salad??

[pangur-and-grim]

you people ask too many questions

[spreadassholesdotorg]

[desidesidesi]

Big!!! Steppy!!!

[redfagdiver]

Taking her job very seriously

[bunjywunjy]

she can very much guard this grain from ANY potentates!

[everythingfox]

State of the art roomba

[taylorswift]

Tonight all these lives converge here The mosaics of laughter and cocktails of tears Where fraternal souls sing identical things And it’s beautiful  It’s rapturous. It is frightening. ____

I can’t tell you how proud I am to share this with you, an album that just feels so right. A forever thank you goes out to my mentors and friends Max and Shellback for helping me paint this self portrait.

If you thought the big show was wild, perhaps you should come and take a look behind the curtain… 

The Life of a Showgirl is out now.

https://taylor.lnk.to/TSTheLifeofaShowgirl

Album Producers: Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift

📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott 

[dazeddoodles]

Frankie finally got a Guinevere!

[dazeddoodles]

FRANKIE'S VOICE ACTOR COMMENTED???

Update: SHE VOICED IT TOO

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Michaela Laws (@vamichaelalaws)

[burgertv]

[blahblah3482]

[octavio-world]

reblog to survive

[rubylis]

@thebibliosphere

[beadyeyes]

Bugdozer

[beadyeyes]

Another bugdozer

[jameelaillustration]

One of the coolest things to remember is that because prey animals have eyes on the side of their head, they are looking at you when they're in profile, not facing you! Hot tip for artists and animal lovers!

[actuallycuteanimals]

Okay not really. The thing about animals with eyes on the side of their head: they DO in fact look directly at things and they CAN use binocular vision. I am going to use horse examples because horses are what I know best.

A horse uses binocular vision when it is trying to see something better - monocular vision gives a wider field of view but no depth perception and is not very clear.

When alert, the horse will look directly at something, facing it, using binocular vision to determine what it is and whether it is a threat.

A general rule of thumb with horses is that whatever their ears are pointed at is what they are looking at.

In the first image, the horse is looking at me. In the second, she is not.

In this set of images, she is investigating that blanket. You can clearly see her head pointed at the object and she examines with her binocular vision and nose.

Now, in this case, the horse is looking at me without his head facing me. You can tell he's looking at me with his monocular vision by how he has one ear facing me.

In most of the professionally done horse reference pics you see, the horses are going to have their ears pricked up and alert and be using their binocular vision. Why? Because it just looks better. How? Either the horse is investigating/curious about the camera or person holding the camera OR someone standing where they want the horse to look has just snapped their fingers or whistled or waved an umbrella or something to get the horses attention.

I just find it silly to say that the prey animals are not looking at you when facing head on, when the examples you gave do not seem to demonstrate that. To me, all of the squirrel and bird pictures look as if they are looking at the viewer - with the side view being a more 'relaxed/trusting' sort of look while the front view is a tenser investigation. The horse does not look like its looking at the view in either drawing - the first looks relaxed and looking somewhat to the side, the second looks alert and gazing directly in front of it.

[kedreeva]

I will add on for (at least some) birds.

This bird is not looking at you.

This bird is intensely looking at you

Many animals move their pupils. In both photos you can see her pupils, but they're only facing forward in the second.

Here she is intensely examining a chip in front of her face.

She is not looking at me- actually she's not really looking at anything she's listening to something she heard outside.

Peas most often look at things sideways when they need a wide field of view, too- like when they are scanning the sky for hawks, they will walk puffed up with their head tilted to the side to look up.

But when they want to actually look at something or someone, they will look head on as well. It's just that unlike animals with forward facing eyes, they don't HAVE to look at you head on.

[eleclya]

This is partly true, they can't see the fence as they are actually jumping it! The blind spot directly in front of them is a cone about 3-4 feet long, and the ideal take-off point for a jump is around 4-6 feet in front of the obstacle, so right on the edge of that blind spot. But the exact position of that cone varies with the horse's head position, so if you look at the whole phase of a jump (approach, take off, flight, landing) they will change the height and angle of their head to put the obstacle into their field of vision at the most important points in the run up.

As they approach the fence from a distance they will raise their head so that it is clear in their binocular vision, where they can properly judge the distance and height. Then as they reach the take-off point, the obstacle disappears from view and they lower their head. While they're in the air they should have a rounded arch to their back, which both engages their core so they can raise their centre of mass to clear the jump, but also angles their head slightly further down so they can see the landing point.

Pics of me and my good chonky boy below show the difference, photo one we're cantering across the field heading towards a jump in the distance; head is raised slightly, nose forward in front of the vertical, focus point is far distant, he knows where that jump is and he's taking me to it:

Photo two he's reached a jump, he already knows where it is and how high it is because he made all those judgements well in advance, he's an overachiever so he's jumped it with an extra foot of clearance; head is lowered, back rounded, nose back on the vertical, focus point is short distance so he can see where he's landing:

My focus point on the other hand is straight ahead, looking for the next jump so that as soon as he lands I can pick his focus up and point him towards his next obstacle. Once we reach the take off point neither of us are looking at the thing we're jumping anymore, we're already thinking about what happens next.

And to prove it's not me putting his head in that position, here he is a few years later free jumping, same body shape and head position:

Also anyone saying horses don't look straight ahead, look at this absolute muppet and tell me he's not looking at me