uh oh, new british show only cyril and i are going to watch in our social circles

some things are eternal

as an amateur photographer i sometimes get a little jealous of the way great painters can guide attention 😭 maybe one day i’ll manage it…

always amazes me when an artist captures something the way a lens might. this one is like the narrow focus plane was set all the way back at those trees, making them super sharp and leaving the rest of the scene evocatively blurry

Edward Middleton Manigault - The Rocket, 1909

Houses form a dense pattern yet this back street in some city fails to feel lively. Because it's by Jacob Vrel, painter of stillness. Today has been his day.

lol

surprised reading this to see so little of the metaphorical connection between the sheep and bud. 2d animator dropped into the world of 3d computer animation who manages to find his feet… is it too obvious to comment on? or did i miss it in the piece? either way a heartwarming read

can’t imagine why!

article headline that reads: PepsiCo Enters Booming Meat Stick Space with Good Warrior

PepsiCo Enters Booming Meat Stick Space with Good Warrior

The small drama of rushing water: two watermills with open sluice, 1653. Beautiful work by Jacob van Ruisdael, who died (alas!) on this day in 1682.

wow did sargent have range!

ridiculous that one still has to cook dinner every night. (but also kind of grounding maybe?)

agreed, it’s eye-opening. here were their influences and here is how they chose to strike off on their own. really noticed this at the helene schjerfbeck exhibit currently at the met in nyc!

don’t often see his less mind-bendy stuff. pretty amazing!

lmfao

sekiro parries go craaaazy

that’s the spirit!

baden powell heads rise up!!

this is fucking awesome

genuinely thought this would be Green Room, but then like 6 months later i was like “damn you know what would go crazy right now?”

"the sun is a ball of superheated gas" well, that's good to know. but it doesn't explain everything.

screenshot of NYT notification reading FILMMAKER DIES: Frederick Wiseman, who directed documentaries exposing how American public institutions operate, has died at 96.

rip to one of the greatest to ever do it 😭

sense of scale is so magical (almost scary) here

Died (alas!) on this day in 1538, in his home town of Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer. Here, Alexander the Great & Persian king Darius clash in the Battle of Issus, painted by Altdorfer in 1529.