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roaming Upper Howling are amalgamations of flesh and bone, strung together by the hopes and dreams of their previous souls

That was the compromise?! ... I don't even know what to say.

Harrison Ford's characters in general seem to follow a pattern. There's Deckard, obvs, but noone even told me that in the Lost Ark Indiana Jones explicitly had a relationship with an underage girl, then hooks back up with her later on screen in a "romance" subplot. But people still love that film???

That's even if you only take it at face value, which everyone seems to do now. When it was popularised, it was a white nationalist dogwhistle. Normalising has made it an even better dogwhistle. When it was only fascists using it, it was obvious what they meant. Now they have plausible deniability.

Snowdrops illustrated by Frederick Edward Hulme for ‘The Garland of the Year, or, The Months: their poetry and flowers : with twelve chromographs of flowers, one for each month.’ London, 1873.

From my personal collection. ❄️

#FrederickEdwardHulme #LanguageofFlowers #chromolithograph #snowdrops

A poem for June illustrated with ox-eye daisies and a butterfly. The poem reads "On the fragrant mead, among the new-mown hay, we see the daisies tall, that bloomed but yesterday now with'ring with the grass- their transient glory gone, and in their lesson see the fate of everyone."

A poem for July illustrated with convolvulus flowers. The poem reads "In the dew of Summer morn, are thy varied blossoms born- born to meet the Sun's first ray, soon, too soon, to pass away. Look upon them, for they say- 'Do your duty while you may, lest you die, your work undone, and may se no morrow's sun.'"

Unexpectedly, while most months have joyful & hopeful poems, the chromographs for the heights of Summer, June & July, have 'momento mori'. ☠️

The garland of the year : or, the months: their poetry and flowers : Hulme, F. Edward : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 104 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : 17 cm

Beautiful! There's a digital copy on the Internet Archive. Not quite as nice as having the actual book, but here's a link if anyone else is curious about the other flowers:
archive.org/details/garl...

A rustic floral still life painting in progress. It's a dark room, run down, perhaps a potting shed. On a bench is a Crown brand glass jar with a cut flower arrangement, orange rose, pink fancy tulip, a white rose, & other flowers. To the right of the flowers are 3 cut pink roses and a lit candle. Some foxglove, a fern frond, daisies, a pear & work gloves are on the bench. The back wall has peeling burgundy wallpaper over crumbling plaster. The light of a window is cast on the back wall. A mouse is reaching for a raspberry, a hummingbird is hovering near a red monarda & 3 fireflies are aglow in the top right.

A closer look at the floral display, the hummingbird, snail, butterflies & the mouse.

A close-up of the candles, shears, gloves, daisies & fruit on the right side of the painting.

"Old Garden Shed (small acts of magic)" (+details), oil on canvas, 24x36", 2025 (gift). After 2 months this will finally leave the easel tomorrow.

Close-up photo showing flattened iris petals in ice.

Close-up photo showing flattened flowers with rounded pink and yellow gradient petals and green leaves, all frozen in ice.

Close-up photo showing flattened flowers including a central sunflower and some marigolds, all frozen in ice.

Close-up photo showing flattened flowers with green, yellow, and red petals, all frozen in ice.

Works from the "Ice Gardens" series by American artist Mary Kocol, 2010s, capturing flowers frozen in ice.

Black and white portrait photo of a English village street scene in the fog. Dark walls and silhouettes of trees and bushes on either side, with old stone buildings on the right disappearing into the fog. At the back some more trees and further back the outline of a gothic pointy tower just about visible in the fog.

A foggy stroll over the solstice last week. If you like fog, gloom, and old graveyards you might want to stick around.

Death's head hawkmoth from “The Genera of British Moths. Popularly Described and Arranged According to the System now Adopted in the British Museum” by Henry Noel Humphreys, London, undated, c1860.

I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections Library.

#naturalhistory #sciart #animalart

watercolor of DNA gel

#ArtAdventCalendar Gel Electrophoresis in Green and Blue, watercolor, 2023 #sciart

Ein Aquarell zeigt eine nächtliche Szene mit Nordlichtern. Im Vordergrund eine dunkle Schneelandschaft mit einigen Tannen auf denen Schnee liegt. Den größten Teil des Bildes nimmt der nachtblaue Himmel ein, an dem leuchtend grüne Nordlichter und vereinzelte Sterne zu sehen sind.

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Nolan does seem like a weird guy so maybe he was out of touch like that, but then why were audiences into it? Only thing I can think of is anxiety about the "war on terror", but terrorism is only one of several themes in the trilogy. Doesn't explain why the other themes were also well received. Idk.

NFB has just released a series of behind-the-scenes videos for "Madame Tutli-Putli", an incredible stop-motion short film directed by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski in 2007 (Clyde Henry Productions, National Film Board of Canada).
>> www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It was especially weird because the timing. Why Nolan felt the need to put out a film with a strong antirevolutionary message in 2012 is beyond me. It's not like that year was some big revolutionary moment. Like was he that afraid of the Occupy movement? Why? It was nonviolent, not insurrectionary.

I'm not usually a film contrarian, but I fucking hated these films. Pretentious, drag on, & their political message is extremely conservative. The last film is nakedly right wing propaganda. I was so confused watching them when they were coming out, seeing everyone praising these films & Nolan.

Toad Lily, 2025
Mixed media on canvas
10x14
#art #painting

Photograph of a pair of red, pointed high heel boots with a steel angle and chunky block heels against a neutral white background.

High heels with a wizard's robe is a bold look for a gnome. He may not be in full armour, but he has my respect regardless.

Lilies ❀₊˚⊹

It really is. Most days I actually feel worse after sleeping than before. The lack of control is almost worse than the stress itself. Can't stop my brain ruminating on anxieties/intrusive thoughts/bad memories if I'm not conscious.

Feel like this is a symptom of depression that doesn't get discussed enough. Whenever sleep is mentioned, like on a PHQ9, it's always about whether you're sleeping too much or not enough. No therapist has ever asked me directly about sleep quality until I mention it myself.

Was surprised that's a literal verbatim quote. Reads exactly like quote from book that might be published by Verso, but he said it like it's self-evidently a good thing & not a grim read of the current direction of society. We're really are running out of quiet parts to say out loud at this point.

Oil painting of the interior of a ruined Gothic cloister in winter, with tall pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and stone columns. Snow covers the floor and drifts in from the open archways. Daylight illuminates the structure through the broken walls. Scattered stones lie across the ground. There's a door to right, with a painting hanging over it. To the left, there's statue of a saint on the wall next to a doorway.

'Die Ruine des Klosters Walkenried im Winter' (The Ruins of Walkenried Abbey in Winter)

Carl Hasenpflug 1843

#art #painting #gothic #winter #snow

"Niccolo", the 2nd 2025 graduation short film from french Gobelins school, is online.
Directed by Clémentine Di Prizio, David Florian, Axelle Granet, Sirui Liu, Hugo Michalet & Njolai Pachomius.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=O515...

From "Vorace", a very short indie film by Pauline Mauvière & Charles Ouvrard (France).
>> www.catsuka.com/news/2025-12...

“Night's black Mantle covers all alike.”

(Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas)

🎨 Benjamin Rabier

#owlishmonday

More than half a century before the Cubists supposedly “invented” collage, the sensational “blood collages” of Victorian businessman John Bingley Garland, ca. 1850–1860: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/garland-blood-collages

#pixelart

Two tiny beige mushrooms on a green mossy log with a blurry pink background

A cluster of light brown mushrooms protruding from a mossy log

A cluster of beige mushrooms snaking around fronds of green moss

A light brown mushroom with other similar mushrooms in the background emerging from a woodland floor littered with moss and twigs

Fungi, but make them teeny tiny 🍄

Thank you to Kathryn for spotting these storybook specimens at Alderley Edge.