Giovanna Vitelli

Sam Bates, known as SMUG, Australian-born, realistic street #artist. This one is in Glasgow.

In the comments, I've included different views of this piece, as well as some other pieces of this hyper-realistic street artist.

#StreetArt #WallMural #murals #UrbanArt #art

A periodic reminder of the coolest thing in my life, the thing that makes me feel part of some greater (if flawed) historic flow: these baby Jovibara globifera plants are direct descendants of a plant given by Catherine the Great of Russia to Linnaeus.

Photo of a cream coloured lichen with orange, round apothecia. The lichen is growing on rose coloured rock.

A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca) on rose coloured rock. Northwest Territorie, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Small bronze figurine of a naked woman - a girl, really - sitting on the ground, mostly on her left thigh, as her legs are pulled back. She has her right hand on her right ankle, and her head is turned to her left and slightly upwards; her left hand is on the ground. This pose creates a great tension in the work. She wears a large torc around her neck, with bulbous terminals, and a bracelet on each wrist (which may have been gilded, as well as the torc). The bronze surface is heavily corroded from centuries in the river. A very affecting portrait of a conquered Gaulish woman. British Museum, London (1867,0508.748)

This small bronze figurine of a naked Gaulish woman projects great vulnerability - which was certainly the point, but not in a good way. She's identified by her torc and represents the eroticization of a conquered people. 🏺

Found in the River Seine, Paris. Roman, 100-200 CE. #BritishMuseum
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New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Found eight years apart on the Thames riverbank

Pris à hauteur de l’herbe, un arbre dénudé se dresse, solitaire, à côté d’une poubelle publique. Au‑dessus, le ciel nuageux oscille entre l’orange doux du matin et un bleu clair délicat.

Arbre et poubelle

Tom Stoppard was an inexhaustible fountain of ideas Britain’s most challenging playwright died on November 29th, aged 88

Britain’s most challenging playwright died on November 29th, aged 88

The number of very old stapled ceramics I have known (and owned) testify to their perceived value as objects of use or as heirlooms. They have passed from hand to hand and altered meaning as they go.

Orange Leaves in Fog
#ArtAdventCalendar #Day1
#Sweetgum #Leaves outside my window on a foggy day in Jan 2025.
#PNW #Photography

Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird

Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...

This face could tell a hundred different stories, depending on context.

Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.

Large rectangular section of a mosaic floor. It depicts a round wicker basket at the bottom, spilling out a variety of fish, eels, and crustaceans. At the top, a tube-like wicker basket is on its side, with an intricate diamond pattern around the rim - it holds masses of fruit, probably figs, as fig leaves stick out at the bottom). The background is made of white tesserae, and the scene is contained within a thick black border.

Abbondanza! This large mosaic emblema uses a limited palette of stone tesserae to depict baskets of fish and fruit, symbols of abundance from the sea and land. It probably once decorated the floor of a Roman villa's triclinium (dining room). 🏺

1st-2nd c. CE, Carthage. #BritishMuseum
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Thought this was worth ‘borrowing’ from another site (with credit).

A sandy beach store strewn with the rubble of Roman ruins

#RomanSiteSaturday Stumps of columns in the sand, the sad forgotten remains of the Roman port city of Meninx

📍 Djerba island, Tunisia

📸 Mine

#archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

Circular metal object on the ground, obscured by long grass.

One of countless unexploded bombs in north-eastern Laos, left by the US during the Secret War (1964–1973). Their presence creates 'exclusion zones' where the land is still unsafe for agriculture or habitation, showing the lasting impact of conflict.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar and writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us?

"If we're standing at this juncture between moving into a fascist world or moving into a decolonial world, for me that juncture runs through Palestine."

Photo of the blue, cup-shaped fruiting bodies of a blue stain fungus.

Blue stain fungus. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

The tragedy of the story of the Benin bronzes activated through the very materials and images we have become familiar with.

Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.

it used to be the economy was the way we provide people with food shelters and other necessities to keep them alive. now we are all supposed to die for the sake of the ecomy. What is this thing they are talking about. is it just code for rich people. class power, or what.

Why is the priority of the economy not to house the homeless and ensure everyone has good healthcare?

The TARDIS and Stonehenge

A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.

The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture.

🔍 Zoom in…

Just experienced a moving two minute silence at 11am in honour of the Armistice, in the middle of Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

Silence!

A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888

Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

Fascinating stuff.
A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire, this study claims to have identified thousands more miles of Roman roads than were previously known.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 69,000 as more bodies are exchanged, local health officials say

Framed design with blue shades over a mantle piece

Design for geometric scarf - Sonia Delaunay.
Women in Print - 150 years of Liberty Textiles exhibition.
William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, London E17

My photos show four ornate Visigothic bronze belt buckles arranged in a 2 x 2 grid. Each buckle has a rectangular plate decorated with colourful glass (red, blue, green) inlaid into metal cells using cloisonné technique, and a chunky curved metal loop and prong. They adorned leather belts which Visigothic women wore over a tunic (probably) as a status symbol. Excavated between 1942 and 1949 by Antonio Molinero from the necropolis of Duratón near Segovia, Spain. They are on display at the Casa del Sol Museum in Segovia.

Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s.

Which is your favourite?

From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me

#Archaeology