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The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

Round the back of some newly installed public toilets modern builds and a blue wave cut fence, yellow defib on the wall. Bollard and red gate in the foreground Hornsea seafront

Mid 2020’s repurposed hydrowave civic convenienceism

The “GORDON BENNETT MEMORIAL HALL” long reflective windows, decorated for Christmas, under a blue sky with wispy clouds

Gordon Bennett

Stream: https://bfan.link/change-into-one-another Change into One Another is a collaborative single by Jonathan Jarzyna (John Moods) and JJ Weihl (Discovery Zone). Written and recorded during a time… Discovery Zone & John Moods - Change Into One Another (Official Video)

Anspieltipp: Discovery Zone & John Moods - Change Into One Another

Gable end of a red bricked house with a kindly restored ghost sign for your ‘BOOT REPAIRS’ and on the other side another of Hull’s lovely K8 kiosks & a lamppost splitting up the space. The house also has three evenly spaced chimney stacks. The joy of street furniture Chatsworth Street, Hull

Hull is so cool I wish it were real

#ghostsign #wallsonwednesday

A pair of still functional K8 telephone kiosks in the wild. More recently many of the remaining ones of this design have been granted grade II listed status Cream, modernist phone boxes, scattered golden leaves on the ground, a graffitied wall under a bright blue sky Princes Avenue, Hull

#TelephoneBoxTuesday

And if my grandmother had wheels

‘SAUSAGE MEAT SUPPLIES’ A modest flat roof building with a red barred doorway

Hull

On platform 2 a framed poster that says ‘SHEFFIELD’ above some sort of high speed metropolis scene. Silver equipment cabinet on the right

Can’t help feeling you’d be a bit confused if you did visit Sheffield based on these images alone. Especially this one

On the red brick station walls, a sign for ‘Beverley’ and, ‘visit Sheffield’ poster featuring a stylised drawing of the town hall(?)

Another poster reads ‘Sheffield welcomes you’, also with an image of the town hall, appearing through a leafy clearing Nice fancy ferrous grate cover above

Out this way again

there’s some Visit Sheffield propaganda going on at Beverley station

I’ve been trying to get away, truth be told..

Fetish / Spooky Vicious Pink 12” 1985 Duo wearing with big hair wearing quite a lot of eyeliner & black lace

Favourite 80’s vampires

Fetish / Spooky
Vicious Pink

(spook𝑒𝑒𝑒)

Une femme passe devant une affiche avec une tulipe sur le quai d’un métro aux murs de céramiques.

Métro / Paris
La tulipe

#BlueSkyArtShow #Inside
#EastCostKin

The Lo Yo Yo FFO thé raincoats, the slits, Brenda Ray and of course Family Fodder, Officer, etcc namesake is also a capt beefheart track (Low Yo Yo Stuff). What more is there to say

Been obsessing over some dubby, effervescent, 8 track bedroom fun from 1984. Soo catchy

The Lo Yo Yo
Concentric Circles
(1984/2025)

I also saw what is surely the best sign ever made:

Abandoned silos and a barn, covered in graffiti.

In Icelandic, this is called súrheysturn. It means sour hay tower, which is nice and descriptive.

#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay #graffiti #concrete

Bedroom scene, teak furniture w/ gold hardware, mirrors and cream and black floral wall decoration. Séamus the cat is snoozing away in bed

You’re too cozy to leave for a morning this cold, mate

They really are! V glad they left their etchings and that people can enjoy wondering about them hundreds of years later

Love to think about what their lives might’ve been when they immortalised themselves in stone & wood
(End)

More panels of graffito in Beverley Minster, many of which are 16th & 17th century #graffiti #graffito #historicalgraffiti #16thcentury #beverley #

9. Saving the best til last, more intricate panels of graffito, with 1584 in the centre. The oldest (dated) I have found so far, and on wood too

Names, dates, family crest designs & initals at Beverley Minster

8. Large collection of graffito, sigils, initials & dates carved between intricate wood panels, (behind the retroquire in Beverley Minster) a historic place of sanctuary where it was common practise to leave your mark as a sort of ‘log book’. 1586 dated in the centre

‘JR’ but also ‘Robo’ ‘SAM’ above

7. A historic ‘JR’ 
commandeered, possibly centuries later, by Robo

‘M • 1661’ ‘SH’ Lots from this year in various places / around the time of the monarchy Restoration init

6. M • 1661 SH
Does the job

‘ROJER BETHEL’ ‘MAKE HERE /OF’ ‘1631 THE 30 day’

5. Rojer Bethel ? make/here 1631 the 30th day

In a sunnier spot & a bit more weathered ‘RoBERT DVK’ & ‘RICHARD REMINGTON 1645’

4. ROBERT DVK and can just about make out ‘Richard Remington 1645’ below

‘10 : T O U N S’ ‘10 : T O (?) N S’ I like how you can see the writing lines they etched etched to guide them ‘Richard SteeL 1696’ and triangular shield design with lines

3. Richard Steel 1696, and some sort of triangular shield with lines
‘10: to(?)ns’ maybe 10 commandments? This one is in Beverley Minster

‘J Bof 1755’ ‘J’ often looked like a modern day ‘I’ with a line through as the two were used interchangeably + a design above of concentric ovals, not done with a compass, possibly some kind of flower/petals (but I am just guessing) There are a few from this person in various corners of the Minster (likely a choir boy) with lots of time on his hands

2. J. Bof (Both?) 1755, 
and some kind of sigil, possibly older, in the left corner above

‘John Marsh 1771’ etched neatly in stone various other more modern inscriptions such as ‘maggie + daddy xxxx’ ‘lomax 2014’ and larger artists impression of possible be Homer Simpson Sutton Scarsdale Hall #historicalgraffiti #graffiti #18thcentury

1. John Marsh 1771 - who was wonderfully neat, and even considerate enough to have a few practise goes before committing

Historical graffiti collecting

bit of a thread (🧵)

#historicalgraffiti

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - Soft Cell. 1981, Some Bizarre. More evidence of how the weirdos brought up on northen soul, glam and punk invaded the charts with synths #NowPlaying #5debutalbums8084

and the source of one of the finest documentaries of all time