[beautifulabsurdities]

The Henderson by Zaha Hadid Architects

©️Esme Ngan 2025

[neshamama]

martine canneel, "terrestrial egg," 1981, mixed media

[highbrow-hepcat]

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[theoddsideofme]

[themakeupbrush]

Ronald Van Der Kemp Fall 2026 Couture

[70sscifiart]

Taglines from science fiction covers

[jeeook]

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Peggy Gou’s label, Gudu 003 From Maurice Fulton! 

[shelbyblueeyes]

[eatthekidsfirst]

I will never understand why people upload cropped, low-res, uncredited art. Here's the full piece, originally created for a collaboration with watchmaker Ulysse Nardin:

Milo Manara, 2019, Ulysse Nardin, 2, mixed technique on paper

[pleasestopthese]

maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan i’m so happy for rich lesbians rn

[itscolossal]

Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World’s Largest Pop-Up Book

[ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi]

Lynd Ward illustrations for Beowulf  (Heritage Press, 1939; text is William Ellery Leonard’s 1923 verse translation)

Grendel

The East-dark falls and I, shadow-walker, awake. I come to this hated house, mead-hall of mylord-no-more.

With Blood-moon, tide-moon or none I, pride-beast, across the moor, in cold-quiet, come.

I bring no rings for your glory, I was king and come to kill history. Dream-cleaver, I reduce your ranks in red murder. Fang –tooth For my father, became your perfect enemy.

I have turned my tongue crystal, transformed into your opposite philosophy.

You will worship the sun and winter-hunger. Depleted every morning; your vacant bench grows longer.

Your men fall like wheat, sword-arms weak. I speak a storm of words,  javelins and revenge.

[xanaxfarts]

Bob Ross and Peapod the Pocket squirrel (1984)

[lostinhistory]

Watch an orca ram a sunfish so hard that the fish explodes | CNN

Scientists captured video of orcas ramming into sunfish with such force that the fish exploded. The behavior may be for fun as well as for f

Barreling into large, heavy fish with enough force to blast them into instant chum is a previously unknown collaborative feeding strategy among orcas, scientifically called Orcinus orca, also known as killer whales. But in 2024 and 2025, divers captured underwater video of two such events in the Mexican Pacific Ocean and in the Gulf of California. The footage suggests that the brutal body slamming may be in service of a meal — or perhaps a form of play for the orcas. “They had already consumed the sunfish’s internal organs, which are the most nutrient-rich parts of the prey,” Ayres told CNN in an email. “This suggests that causing the sunfish to explode may not have served an immediate feeding purpose and could have just been for fun.”

[baejax-the-great]

Somewhere out there on a planet very far away is a civilization that has included our sun in a beloved constellation of some animal we couldn't dream up if we tried

[fofoqueirah]

Polar opposite outfits next but both from times when Marius needed help and support - Marius at this most "Phantom of the Opera" moment after he's burned and summons Bianca to help him and Marius in Rio, coping hard or hardly coping with Daniel as his sole reason to carry on. 🥹

[desimonewayland]

Mummy portrait of a man

Roman, 2nd century A.D.

To create this man’s likeness, the artist painted a thin piece of wood with encaustic, or pigmented wax, a medium that not only gave the impression of three-dimensionality but also resisted fading and deterioration in the dry climate of Egypt.

Art Institute of Chicago

[burntpink]

Królewna Kotka (Cat Princess), circa 1928 by Konstanty Laszczka