Embittered Raisin Won’t Shut Up About How It Could Have Been Wine https://theonion.com/embittered-raisin-won-t-shut-up-about-how-it-could-have-1827840677/
Andréa Gates
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Supporting creative professionals with websites, apps, editing, research, and any excuse to go to the library. https://sitelines-studio.co.uk
Shigeo Anzai / Isamu Noguchi’s grave in Mure, Shikoku, Japan, 1989
Concept art by Maurice Noble for What's Opera, Doc? (1957), dir. Chuck Jones, Warner Bros. Cartoons
Utagawa Hiroshige, 19th century master of Japanese woodblock prints, created this guide to making shadow puppets for children (or children at heart) (1842) www.openculture.com/2021/07/hiro...
Dear Seattle: It'd be a real shame if this happened to, say, streets around Fremont and Ballard
tyler@tylergscott.com · 5d agoin portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
Beautiful 18th-century botanical models in wax from the Museo della Specola in Florence (source: www.finestresullarte.info/opere-e-arti...)
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... Daniel Malikar's pictures of Afghanistan are among the best photography I've ever seen. I want to know more about everyone in every one of his photos
Snowy valleys, balloon bikes and a wild game of buzkashi: a different view of Afghanistan – in pictures
As the son of Afghan refugees, Daniel Malikyar wanted to paint a picture of the country he knew, rather than the one he read about in news headlines
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Silverpoint. No hesitation nor repetition of line, and necessarily no 'erasing'. Just joy and love
Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social · 7d agoRembrandt, Portrait of Saskia in a straw hat, 1633, Silverpoint on vellum, 185 x 107 mm (Staatliche Museen, Berlin). Inscription, added later, reads, "This was drawn after my wife, when she was 21 years old, the third day after we were engaged 8 June 1633."
Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
This day in history. 1439. In response to the Black Death king Henry VI banned kissing in England. "Go straight to third base," he said, "you're all going to die anyway."
Matt Damon Defends Dunkin’ Product Placement In Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ https://theonion.com/matt-damon-defends-dunkin-product-placement-in-nolans-odyssey/
One of the quiet bright moments of lockdown was Sam Neill serenading us on the ukulele. This type of tenderness feels rare nowadays, how lucky we were. Thank you for everything. ❤️❤️❤️
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
defector.com/is-it-mitch-... Yeah, but seriously, is "an 84-year-old sociopath who dedicated his four-decade Senate career to his preference that society should die altogether if the alternative were for it to become one iota more just and equitable," in fact, dead?
Is It Mitch McConnell Or Your Own Sense Of Possibility That Has Been Dead For Weeks? | Defector
Nobody has seen Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell in public in a while. Is that because the 84-year-old former majority leader is dead? Well now, that is an interesting question. What is death? A man w...
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Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.
It may be difficult for audiences to appreciate just how much of Jim Henson’s output/focus in the 60s revolved around The Muppets as pitchmen for various products. Before they became household names, they were known for ads & variety show appearances. BONUS FUN: Count the use of the word “American”
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... "There’s a better part to the American personality, but you wouldn’t want to rely on it. The horrible reality [...] is that this is the anniversary which America deserves." Amen brother, and I'm American
Ice, Ice Baby: America's national decline
The 250th anniversary is corrupt, embarrassing and an utter failure. It's the perfect encapsulation of Trump's US.
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'View of Rhenen.' (1908) Around 1895, the Dutch painter Ferdinand Nibbrig began experimenting with divisionism to help him capture heat and light; how he has succeeded here with a painting that has the composed grandeur of a fresco.
My latest for @hyperallergic.com is a new study which found DNA preserved in Paleolithic wall pigments in caves in Spain & Portugal 🎨 Art is an archive! Thanks so much to Dr. @monicamedhist.bsky.social for speaking to me about the present and future of paleogenetics. Thanks for reading!
Human DNA in Cave Paintings Can Survive For Millennia, Study Finds
The discovery points to the future potential of archaeogenetics in recovering the identities of ancient artists from thousands of years ago.
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youtu.be/P6CT24rRbfA?... Seriously, how is this not a thing??
Spray-On Socks (Eugene Levy & John Candy) | SCTV
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Not sure why (and as a metaphor for corruption it is WAY too on the nose) but I find the whole reflection pool fiasco just ... endlessly amusing Okay, not to waterfowl...
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2mo agoJohn Quincey Adams used to swim nude in the Potomac when he was president. Someone needs to write a screenplay in which a time traveling JQA swims in the polluted Potomac and is transformed into a democracy avenging super hero.
Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now
Day 3: Pulp - Sunrise (2001) Pulp. And a choir. And an orchestra. And Richard Hawley on lap steel. And Scott Walker producing. And Peter Saville on design duties. Were we dreaming?! song.link/y/fx3wNADacjg #THEN0UGHTIE5
Sunrise by Pulp
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This tremendous Roman statuette of a hippopotamus is made from a single piece of red marble which eggheads have determined was quarried at Cape Tainaron in the Peloponnese. Those gaping jaws, sharp teeth & aggressive pose portray a dangerous animal. 🏛️📷 Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen 🇩🇰
www.theguardian.com/science/2026... Prof. Breuil also documented and published the Paleolithic parietal art rediscovered in 1905 at the Pileta caves in Benajoan, Andalucia. The Pileta images, which date back between 15,000 and 30,000 yrs are also marked throughout by 'counting lines'.
Striped rock dismissed as natural in 1928 reclassified as UK’s oldest cave art
Scientific dating proves streaks on walls of Bacon Hole, near the Mumbles in south Wales, is Palaeolithic rock art
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