here is a manatee named Ayurami who lives at the Dallas World Aquarium with her best friend, a log

digital drawing of a hare/rabbit framed with snowdrops

the first signs of spring ⚘

[ #art #creatureart ]

Inside of a wide black kylix (drinking cup) is a red-figure tondo decoration depicting a balding cobbler sitting at a table, cutting leather. His torso is bare and muscular, and he has a black beard and a fringe of black hair, but is bald on the top of his head. He leans over and uses a crescent knife to cut the leather on the cutting board. A basket at his feet has a pale yellow inscription, 'KALOS' ('beautiful', 'good', 'handsome'). Hanging behind him are two cut pieces of leather, one for the sole, the other for the upper part of a boot. Above him hangs a hammer, a completed boot, completed sandal, and another crescent knife. The tondo is bordered by a 'Greek key' meander.

Some of my favorite works of art from the ancient world depict humble craftspeople plying their trade. In this red-figure kylix, we see a cobbler cutting leather, using a crescent knife. To his left are strips for the sole and upper part of a boot, and above a boot, sandal and knife. 🏺 1/

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Moongazer.

🎨 Judith Yates

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

The Epstein Files, everybody!

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
~ Aldous Huxley

The Tow Path at Argenteuil
🎨 Claude Monet (1875)

Jonathan the Tortoise (left) and friend

Happy Birthday (Observed) to the uncontested KING Jonathan The Tortoise, estimated to be 192 years old

192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!

A museum display case with small white clay figurines arranged in a circle: several birds and two seated dogs on grey plinths surround a slightly taller nude female figure standing on a red pedestal at the back, with a few pottery fragments and a coin laid flat in the center on a grey surface against a neutral background.

Some 1,900 years ago a child was buried with an array of terracotta figurines in the #Roman town of Arae Flaviae, #Rottweil: 2 pigeons, 2 dogs, 2 roosters, a chicken, a duck, and a female figure, commonly identified as Iuventas, the personification of youth. Rather than....🧵1/2

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Friends, vikings, countrymen: lend me your eyes. May I present what just happened an hour ago in Iceland?

It was an early, short substorm, but it was a good one. Literal space weather!
#northernlights #aurora

A bay on Crete in Greece with inviting aqua sea. Small hills and mountains jet along the coast which is green with trees. God is shining a spotlight through the middle of the picture as if to say, “you are small and inconsequential, even if you think your shit don’t smell.”

Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. - George Harrison

Pic of the day
#photography

This Brooklyn Museum photo shows a sketch made in black ink on a stone-coloured limestone flake (known as an ostracon by Egyptologists). The sketch depicts a scene with a cat and a mouse imitating human behaviour. On the right, a tabby cat is drawn in profile with pointed ears, standing on its hind legs in front of a large mouse seated on a folding stool on the left of the scene. The cat is depicted as a servant; in one paw it holds a fan, and offers a plucked duck, in the other paw it holds a piece of linen cloth. The mouse has drooping breasts, wears a long skirt, has a lotus flower on its forehead, and its long tail hangs down over the back of the stool. The mouse holds a dish, a flower, and cloth (often held by pharaohs). Dimensions 8.9 x 17.3 x 1.1 cm. Dated c. 1295–1075 BC. Animals imitating human behaviour are well-known in Egyptian art. Their meaning is uncertain. Perhaps this sketch is a caricature or illustration of a long-lost fable, perhaps a satire of the royal family, or maybe just a sketch for fun!

To bring a smile to your face, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a tabby cat serving a mouse! 😁

The artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad to draw this comic scene some 3,200 years ago.

📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object...

#Archaeology

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

Disinformation

Take a break from doomscrolling.

#birds #art #timelinecleanse #painting #kingfisher #icon #peace

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'

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The Rehumanist

Diving into Nature's masterpiece.

Kitahama Beach, Kashima Island

Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more.

📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.

A brown bunny curiously peeks through white railing bars, its head slightly tilted.

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.

🇺🇦 Ours are home! 🇺🇦

Virginia Lee Burton

Virginia Lee Burton

Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26  and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.