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This is my blog for my art and anything I like!

[bedupolker]

Some lesser seen rodents... & non-rodents

Striped grass mice (x3), lowland streaked tenrec, Luzon cloud rat, Paca, Eurasian hamster, European hedgehog

Originals on sale!

[horsesource]

“Pit ponies were savvy and mentally sharp, developing other instincts where their eyesight would be challenged in the darkness. Ponies rendered blind in one eye from injury would learn to rub their noses against hard stones to feel their way as to where to turn. [..]

Priest says the ponies could count. ‘When working, ponies pulled drams or tubs of coal. These tubs were on rails a little like railway carriages. Ponies could actually count! I have been told this hundreds of times by ex-miners. They listened for the click as each tub was attached. Three was acceptable, four was not. The pony would not move until the fourth was taken off.’

She recalls how the ponies saved lives. ‘Ponies often stopped in their tracks, refusing to move. The next minute, the roof [ahead of them] has fallen in. Ponies saved the lives of many miners this way.’”

[horsesource]

“Pit ponies usually had one person, often an adolescent boy, as their driver..Tales of men whose lights had gone out seizing a pony's tail or harness and being guided to the underground stable were commonplace.

Ponies often had to have their eyes covered before they were brought to the surface, since seeing the sunlight after so much darkness could send them into a frenzy.”

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[folklorespring]

Amazing

[busterkeatonsociety]

Throwback Thursday—Japanese Menko card sheet of Old Hollywood film stars (1948).

[overdoso]

Uma torre.... digo, família de tamanduás 🐾

[weirdlandtv]

Cartoon by John O'Brien for NEW YORKER magazine, 1991.

[nobrashfestivity]

David Hockney Rain, from The Weather Series (NGA/Gemini 23.4), 1973 Color lithograph and screenprint on Arches watermarked paper; signed 'David Hockney 73' in green pencil along the lower edge

[nobrashfestivity]

RIP David Hockney

[tomb-of-madeline]

Stories of Elf World

[normasshearer]

Katharine Hepburn in HOLIDAY (1938) dir. George Cukor

[archiveofphotography]

Ellsworth Kelly, “Black Curve I,” 1970.

[doomsdaymydear]

a little two-parter sneakret update has dropped at Doomsday, My Dear!

didn't wanna make a big ol production over what's essentially two panels, but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway :V

[cafiffle]

we're getting clooooserrrrr to the ennnnnd

[pigpenandpaper]

Colored sketch commission for VerdantSloth!

Won't you sacrifice your livestock to her?

[gregdotorg]

Today, critics—and maybe the art-viewing public, too—are still unable to prevent themselves from understanding blackness as, in the first order, political. This phenomenon has been exacerbated by writing that overstates the political significance and social power of art, and of the work of black artists in particular. In the past decade, the absence, and moreover the failure, of progressive and leftist political formations—membership organizations, political parties, mass-mobilization campaigns—has placed a great deal of pressure on cultural production and consumption. This has generated significant investments in representation as a meaningful and efficacious form of political activity. The work of black artists—and indigenous artists, other artists of color, and queer artists—has been asked to redeem audi­ences, institutions, and buyers, with its patronage, purchase, and display to serve as reparative gestures. This framework, which suggests that the consumption and assessment of black artists always carries political stakes, is not one that easily accommodates negative judgments.

from Black Block, by Rachel Hunter Himes, for Triple Canopy [via]

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la la la Jacinthe

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