Northern Star (Adrian) 🍉🚂✨

[A screenshot of the Nintendo Australia website flash intro from 1998. A number of official artwork renders are used for the buttons. The Yoshi button is labeled "HELP" and is altered to have smaller pupils than usual.] Source: image: https://web.archive.org/web/19980530120304fw_/http://www.nintendo.com.au/flash_index.html, info: Bluesky user @vghistory.bsky.social

The 1998 official site for Nintendo Australia had a deliberately silly aesthetic with small animations and edits to official renders. For the "HELP" button, Yoshi's pupils were made smaller than usual to give him a "concerned" expression, as though in need of help.

Beautiful job!😊

A watercolour painting of Caerphilly Castle in South Wales

Something different today. This is my local castle, about a 12-15 min walk from my house, it even has a moat! You can also get married there :)

In other news, I've packaged up all 32 weekend orders and they're being dropped at the sorting office tomorrow morning 🥰

#watercolours #castle #welshart

Vasilij Kandinskij.

Akhtyrka. Entrada principal a la dacha. 1917

Lots of love from me and Steve!

Happy International Women's Day!

Post your favorite female character!

Argenteuil, Seen from the Small Arm of the Seine - 1872
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7762

Ink sketch of the garden with watercolour (and a gardener in a hat). The object just off centre at the bottom is a driftwood sculpture which is slowly decaying

This is a sketch of the garden at the front of the studio. Includes twisted hazel which I really like to draw.

A couple of garden sketches from last summer, ink and watercolour. Already planting seeds for this year including some sunflowers which look great in a busy mixed flowerbed.

Orange and white cat, 100% good

Behaviores Report: 100% goode!

Gettng grooovey (flashing lites warning)

Love this😍

A LNER K2 locomotive in blue livery is pulling a train of green-and-cream LMS coaches.

Janet taking a passenger train along the NWR mainline. #STMY #TTTE

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

My sister rescued a new pom. He's inbred and his name is Sandwich

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

My cat Otis tucked into a blanket

He's tucked in

Rare aesthetic: Building the Nant Gwernol extension 😮‍💨

This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the extension's opening!

📸 TR Collection, David Mitchell

#HeartofGold #RailwayAdventure

I'm home in my bed and I didnt have to post a day 10 update. Having heat and hot water is fantastic. Thank you for following this saga. Here's my cat tax.

Round two fighting a "bumblefoot" infection on Xander. He's such a good sport about his Epsom soaks!
💜🐔

#chicken #rooster #kaporossurvivors #veganfortheanimals #starlandsanctuary

A collage of images from #Nosferatu of 1922 - on the left a dramatic poster portraying Count Orlok, on the top right the iconic scene of his shadow ascending a staircase, and in the lower right Orlok is fatally exposed to the sun.

On this day in 1922, German director #FWMurnau released the iconic expressionist silent movie #Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror).

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

Gray and white tuxedo cat, Mina Harker, licking a dilute tortie kitten (Clover) in front of an opened, screened deck door.

It's blurry, but cute. Mina and little Clover enjoying the warm weather, fresh air, and birdcalls.

Built by King Kasyapa, Lion Rock in Sri Lanka is a a 5th-century fortress.

It features ancient frescoes, a mirrored wall, water gardens, and a summit palace, accessible via 1,200 steps, taking about 1–1.5 hours to reach the top.

► FunHouseRadio.com <- TUNE IN

I'm sorry that I had to move my leg one inch...geez!

Not long until the Statfold Spectale of Steam! A whopping 14 narrow gauge locos in steam across the weekend! I'll be back this year supporting the GVT Trust. Profits from my kits will be going to help the tramway. It's going to be a great event, I hope to see some of you there!