烏夔居士

A pixel art set of sprites showcasing a Dogu-like construct: its head can magically detach and fire two laserbeams from its eyes.

Itsa firin' its lazor
Ancestral automated memetic battle construct Dogu?
#pixelart WIP

Gilt bronze inlaid turquoise, coral and lapis lazuli inkstone box in the form of a toad with dragon's horns and two wings and curled tail, Western Han dynasty, 2nd century BCE. Unearthed from Tushan in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. Collection of Nanjing Museum.

It has occurred to me that y'all might not know who Mayor Ras Baraka is. So I'm going to take a moment out of grading to do my duty as a Jersey girl and teach you a thing. Mayor Baraka is the 40th mayor of the Newark, NJ, the city that will forever be Jersey's heartbeat.

Phobos, the larger and inner of the two Martian moons, is the darkest moon in the entire Solar System. Its unusual orbit and color indicate that it may be a captured asteroid composed of a mixture of ice and dark rock. The featured assigned-color picture of Phobos near the edge of Mars was captured in late 2021 by ESA's robot spacecraft Mars Express, currently orbiting Mars. Phobos is a heavily cratered and barren moon, with its largest crater located on the far side. From images like this, Phobos has been determined to be covered by perhaps a meter of loose dust. Phobos orbits so close to Mars that from some places it would appear to rise and set twice a day, while from other places it would not be visible at all. Phobos' orbit around Mars is continually decaying -- it will likely break up with pieces crashing to the Martian surface in about 50 million years.

Here's the other Mars moon -- Phobos, a bit larger and closer, but still not much more than a space potato.

The Mars Express orbiter captured Phobos circling over the Martian surface, looking like a rock just hanging out in space. (Which is basically what it is.) 🧪

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23073...

Painted Wooden Weapon Rack, Han dynasty, 2nd century BCE. Unearthed from Mawangdui in Changsha, Hu'nan Province. Collection of Hu'nan Museum.

“Cut Shot/Jungle Ball” is currently being displayed with Night Gallery.

They’ll be hosting my first gallery display in LA this September.

this is the face of a man who is about to end the bird flu epidemic by eating every infected bird

Bronze Prong with Snake Design, Western Han dynasty (202 BC–9 AD). Unearthed from Shizhaishan in Jinning, Yun'nan Province. Collection of Yun'nan Museum.

Black Dynamite: I’m declaring Babylon must fall Pimp: But Black Dynamite I live in Babylon

this hits so hard rn

🐍🐍🐍

patinated bronze statue of the Buddha lying in the lower left corner of the screen on a bed of clouds in a magenta sky; a crane flies in the distance; on the upper left corner a Japanese phrase that translates to "all things are impermanent"

screenshot from 地獄めぐり aka. 'Bonze Adventure', a video game from 1988

YouTube video by placereel The Commercials of David Lynch

A collection of David Lynch's commercial work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoCY...

The Louis E. Stern Collection

Brise marine (Sea Breeze) (plate, page 43) from Poésies (Poems), 1932

https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1141616

hmmmmmmmmff 🍷

I really gotta stop putting off grading until the last minute.

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.

➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

Dieter Roth good at art

Jun, Gatchaman

when I was a kid I heard another kid arguing about why he had to do service for others in the gurudwara and his parent was like "if you won't help others what is the point of you" and I've never forgotten that line.

monumental Chinese calligraphic inscription in adapted (contemporary) running/cursive script, wild-style (狂草), on Greco-Roman facade; still from Metropolitan Museum youtube video.

Kind of jealous that they got this in New York.
Tong Yang-Tze 董陽孜 "Stones from other mountains can refine our jade" 他山之石，可以攻玉.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gACV...

Bequeathed by Montague Shearman through the Contemporary Art Society 1940

Henri Matisse, The Inattentive Reader, 1919
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113963

Sumo Stabilio Pencil Notebook #37, page 7 2022 March, Day 3 Ishiura Shikanosuke 石浦.

🎵 It's getting cold in here...
So cold!
So put on all your clothes!
I am getting so cold,
I wanna put more clothes on... 🎵

Borobudur corner; maybe I should have blurred out the random dude at the bottom of the picture, but he's pretty anonymous-looking

Borobudur

Taotie 饕餮 aren't supposed to look like that.

this wild bronze from the late Shang dynasty (c. 1000 BCE)

mixed media tapestry and painting, very large

Pacita Abad at SFMOMA; I think this is "Pulang Buli off Batangas"

hell yeah

One of the best things I got to see in person this year is Ed Ruscha's "Norms on Fire," from his LACMA show.