[archatlas]

Jason Anderson

British artist Jason Anderson creates colorful abstract paintings composed of pixelated swatches of pastel-toned oil paint. Up-close, the artist’s paintings look like blocky layers of shapes and color; but, from afar, his scenes—featuring cityscapes, roads, trains, and marinas—are revealed.

Anderson began his career as a stained glass apprentice, where he worked on restoring the windows of cathedrals. He soon progressed onto designing the glass murals himself, where he learned how to break down subject matter into “jigsaws” of colored sections. This approach still shines through in his paintings today—complex scenes are brought to life with simple shapes and careful consideration to hue and tone.

[tami-taylors-hair]

Oh?? My?? GAWD???

[mariacallous]

[mac-rants]

[everythingfox]

No take only throw

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[justcatposts]

Little girl teaching her cats how to draw a flower 

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[hottiewitabloggie]

they’re? just? sitting there ???

[ladycavalier]

it makes it 100% better that i can’t understand her, i feel like i’m hearing what cats hear

[socialistexan]

[crtter]

Heh, she’s speaking Portuguese! Here’s what she’s saying:

*baby voice* “… and if you have any questions, just ask me! And now… yeah. And now you draw the roots. You draw them all twisted up! Got it? A flower? Now draw it. Did you get it, Luis Roberto? Did you get it, Jurandir? Look. Did you get it? That’s how you draw a flower.”

Luis Roberto and Jurandir are people names (Jurandir is especially a name associated with older men) so it’s extra funny that the cats are named that, heh.

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[guooey]

[slushyseals]

Unmute!

[undercover-witch]

this seems like something that would legit happen in an abandoned fjord in Norway where the border between humans and the old gods is thin.

[itskobold]

ma'am its clear that this seal is a christian

[trying-to-fight-it]

[thevioletsunflower]

[video description: a seal lying on a beach with its head resting on the edge of the grass. As the camera approaches, the seal opens its mouth, presumably to make seal sounds, but instead of seal sounds the videographer has edited in the sounds of a men’s choir singing etherial music]

[kaijuno]

He’s not catholic that’s the Halo theme. He is a gamer smh

[blognotfound]

pls don’t let this flop

[nilesfreeman]

doofenshmirtz’s mental process i think

[absolutelynothingitellyou]

Mans was literally so respectful he never assumed every turquoise platypus he met wasn't automatically going to be the one and only turquoise platypus he's ever met 😂😂😂

[nbcnightlynews]

WATCH: The Oregon Zoo in Portland was closed to the public today due to heavy snow – but the zoo’s residents had a blast.

[i-hate-vegans-deactivated201910]

Oh my GODD THE POLAR BEAR GOT SOME SNOW HE MUST FEEL SO REFRESHED

[xenosaurus]

relatable seals at the end there

[followmetoyourdoom]

“Hey Joe! Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe look!!! It’s snow!”

[epicwalrus-deactivated20210127]

I need more of this shit!

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Those happy elephant sounds cleared my skin and watered my crops.

[dlvlotus]

The polar bear “hell nahhhh. This ain’t that fake shit ! THIS AINT THAT FAKE SHIT. THIS THAT REAL SHIT!!!”

[imposterogers]

thor ragnarok is literally 18x funnier when u realize the grandmaster knows what’s going on the entire time. he is telepathic and can read minds so he legit just let shit go down just for fun bc he’s such a drama hoe

[thecryptkeeper]

loki, thinking they’ve sleezed their way out of another mess: oh ill totally bring those traitors back to you oh great powerful grandmaster

the grandmaster, knowing damn well that’s not going to happen: haha yeah

[the-memedaddy]

Me_irl

[finitetwilight]

You have been warned

[oh-my-fancan]

i was wondering what was wrong with this picture.... then I realized there was no blue filter

[finitetwilight]

can't believe I forget the tint™

[illbeintheattic]

the signs were everywhere

[justnoodlefishthings]

I wish there was less of a push for organic animal products and more of a push for humanely raised

[justnoodlefishthings]

like I could care less if the animal had to have antibiotics at some point

I care more if chickens had access to pasture and if a cow had access to enrichment

[justnoodlefishthings]

[nevver]

[banzai-jinto]

but tell me you wouldnt wear at least one of these

[fsthhdwefg-deactivated20180515]

Is this the equivalent of americans wearing poorly-translated Chinese/Japanese t-shirts around the early 2000’s? And can i please have every single shirt up there?

[over-the-linne]

WHO THE FUCK IS JESUS

[copperbadge]

My undergrad alma mater had an exchange program where we had an entire class of Japanese university students spend a year at our school studying in English immersion each year. Which was awesome, they were really cool and they loved to socialize with the American kids. 

One of my best friends had one of the exchange students as her roommate; she was about four foot eleven and maybe ninety pounds, and she had a passion for huge platform boots and shirts with English slogans on them. She explained exactly that – it was cool to wear shirts with English lettering on them, even if you didn’t exactly know what it meant (this was in the late 90s/early 00s).

Her absolute favorite shirt was black with BITCH picked out in enormous rhinestones. She’d worn it three times before I asked her if she knew what it meant, and she said she’d been told it meant “Like a baby dog, the cutest dog? A really cute girl puppy.” 

So I explained to her that it wasn’t quite an accurate translation, and as I elaborated on what it meant, from “female dog” on up to “a name you call a woman you don’t like” and all the reasons you might call someone that, her eyes got wider and wider until finally she yelled “THAT’S BETTER, THAT’S THE BEST! BITCH IS EVEN BETTER THAN CUTE!”

I loved her to bits, she was amazing. 

[blackness-by-your-side]

I am fed up with the media nowadays

[milkpeu]

beginning and end

[terriblepersona]

THEY WERE MISSING FOR FUCKING YEARS OMG, THIS ALWAYS UPSETS ME SO MUCH

[maltedmilkchocolate]

I always see the discussion that many days, months, years have passed during this story. 

I present to you a different idea.

There’s several themes behind Spirited Away: Capitalism’s effect on Japan, Environmental issues, and notably, Chihiro’s coming of age story.

From what I know, the idea of time passing differently in spirit worlds, is more based on western stories of the fae. 

But something more common in Japanese folklore is spirit trickery/deception. Or more accurately. What you see, isn’t always what’s actually there.  Chihiro starts this story as a young child, before her coming-of-age arc, that more or less forces her to become ‘an adult’. More accurately. The challenges she faces makes her mature as a person. What’s the most common thing in folklore? Children see what’s actually there.

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[rackletang]

#resist (at Tacoma, Washington)