"Now when I speak of a web of illusion and feigned illusion in the work of Max Ernst, I refer to the means he used to preserve a state of ambiguity between his own manipulations and the material he took from other sources."
Werner Spies, Max Ernst- Loplop: The Artist in the Third Person.
Totally off-topic, but did y'all the know the Free State of Florida's citrus industry is basically dead??
This is quite a story:
slate.com/business/202...
he world’s top biodiversity scientists just said it plainly: biodiversity loss is now a macroeconomic and national security threat. Not a tree-hugger talking point. An economic and security one. Nature isn’t a cost center. It’s infrastructure. #Biodiversity #NatureEconomy
Saw it at my theater last week and it was DELIGHTFUL. Laughter, tears, warmth, and pain I was glowing when it finished. I have to watch the Apu Trilogy asap
Mind-boggling amounts of Billionaire-backed and Dark Money $$$ in the KY GOP Primary
Painting of flying birds in different colours and flying in different directions against a white background
'Les courants (the currents)' series by Montreal artist Dominique Fortin #WomensArt
Now would certainly be the time for Joe to cash in his first goal😅
Paul's Klee 1919 self-portrait, titled "Lost In Thought"
A female polar bear feeds on a sperm whale carcass in the polar pack ice north of the Norwegian archipelago, Svalbard. © Roie Galitz The 69th annual World Press Photo Contest
Metal as ffff
“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.”
Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.
The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable.
The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back.
We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.
The longer I live, the more I become convinced that the only thing that matters in literature is the (more or less less irrational) shamanism of a book, i.e. that the writer is first of all an enchanter.
- Nabokov to Edmund Wilson, 27 Nov. 1946
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.
Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).
An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.
An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.
'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!
Came across baby eels in the river! Apparently these have been newly connected to the New Forest water ways by a tunnel system. Amazing to stumble across in the wild.
Working-class Kentucky residents are being forced to leave their mobile home park within 90 days because a Fortune 50 company wants to build a data center next door.
They don't know where they'll go.
Video: Lex18News
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
dear god make me a moth I want to be invisible among dead leaves
Wenzel Hablik (1881–1934)
“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”
The Bat Conservation Trust’s Nocturnal Garden at #RHS Chelsea Flower Show www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events...
The same cassowary dad sculpture as the original post but now complete with a shiny layer of varnish.
The cassowary chick on its own in the palm of my hand, about the size of or an olive.
Different angle of cassowary dad.
Cassowary dad now glazed and glamorous.
Little Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga, with his pet birds. Hope they get along with his pet cats. Painted in 1788 by Francisco de Goya, born OTD 1746.
On his birthday, remembering Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997). A regular in my reading ever since I read Closely Watched Trains and Too Loud a Solitude two decades ago.
A computer can never pack a bowl therefore a computer must never make a playlist
An intensely crafted Lutyens detail at Tigbourne Court, Surrey (1899-1901)
also my favorite
a figure ambles across a colorful, pointillist almost surreal landscape of fields and trees
'Glowing Sky' (1988)
Viktor Zaretsky
Strike has begun, 3,800 meat packing workers in Colorado have walked off the job
