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#scooby doo #scooby gang #scooby movies #scooby doo and the samurai sword #shaggy rogers #velma dinkley #daphne blake #fred jones #poor fred #best line in the movie

irfrenchfries

@forduary week 2, finally. Prompt is, obviously, observation. Tap to zoom. Tumblr devastated the resolution. Have fun, kids! (Let me know if you find them, but don't say where!)

If you need a further challenge, there are ten posters for Robbie's band (as seen in Fight Fighters) hidden as well, and ten anomalies: stomach faced duck, a gnome, a portal potty, an eye bat, a liliputtian, some beard cubs, a question quail, a squash with the face of a person, a cowl, and the hidebehind.

Lastly, just in case anyone needs it, I’ve cut it up into smaller pieces that are a little bit easier to see. Those are below the cut.

#art #stanford pines #stanley pines #dipper pines #mabel pines #gravity falls #it's like #where's waldo

thestuffedalligator

I’m going to level with you. I have listened to The Devil Went Down to Georgia for most of my life. We were a country music household, this was a staple of my childhood along with Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, and that one Chipmunks country album.

I have no idea what “Fire on the mountain run boys run/The Devil's in the house of the rising sun/Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough/Granny does your dog bite no child no” means and at this point I’m too scared to ask.

dementian

For once I can be of assistance.

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

Mountain Whippoorwill (aka How Hillbilly Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize)

impossiblepackage

this is the key part of the song, that a lot of people miss. people have this misconception that the contest between Johnny and The Devil is about who is the better fiddle player. but it isn't. its about who is the better fiddler.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

but Johnny wins because the contest is about being the best fiddler. the song uses these lines mentioned above as a shorthand for saying that Johnny is playing these songs. Johnny launches into a set of the most popular songs, played well, and that's what gives him his big win. A good fiddler knows all the hits, and can read the room to know what to play next. The Devil loses because he completely fails to read the room, and doesn't know the right songs.

#huh #devil went down to georgia #music

eldamaranquendi

MiddleEarth by LastStudio

#lotr #travel posters #fan art

grickle14

Canine kaiju.

#grickledoodle #godzilla #dog #monsters #drawing #cartoon

introsquirrel

County roads

Full of holes

On the route

I need to go

Road construction

Lane obstruction

Let me go

County roads

#funny #country road #john denver #parody

as-warm-as-choco

Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves !

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

the-time-goddess-of-221b-deacti

exCUSE ME?!?!!??!??! TheYRE PAINTINGS?!??!!?!

starsintheskysandsontheshore

SHUT UP I thought they were miniatures!!!!

sodeartomyheart

It’s too beautiful. I could cry.

firey-rising-demon-deactivated2

I love this because I’ll be watching a movie and think “how did they do that? Is that a building they built for this movie? Was it there beforehand? Is it cardboard or CGI? Is that actually some place on Earth that they’re filming?” And the answer to all of these now is “nope, that’s a painting”. I can’t believe some of the most iconic, familiar shots were paintings!

#starwars #star wars #paintings #original trilogy #background

grickle14

Drac-hund.

#grickledoodle #cartoon #horror #drawing #art #funny #humor #dashund #vampire #dracula

grickle14

Made for the job.

#grickledoodle #plaguedoctor #work #cartoon #drawing #funny #art #humor #jobs

anxietyproblem

#memes #meme #same #relatable #humor

ducissatenebrarum

The “Pillar-biter” (Dutch: pilaarbijter), 1509–1517 — a rare late-Gothic satire carved on the lower choir/rood screen of St. Bavo Church in Haarlem.

The figure grips the column framing him and literally bites into it, his face twisted into a grimace, while a rosary on his belt hints at the message: a warning against excessive, performative piety and hypocrisy, looking devout in public, but acting differently at home.

#art #history