This is art

A little behind the scenes video of the puppet build for Small Prophets. You even get to see my hands! 👋

#SmallProphets #BehindTheScenes

just the sweetest little pangolin you ever saw

fun fact: no pangolin has ever done a single thing wrong in the entire history of the world

On beefin with the Pope and the infamous Dr. Jesus H Trump picture

A collection of a dozen cupcakes decorated to look like flowers in the yellow part of the spectrum. There are two daffodils, two roses, three dahlias, two ranunculus and three daisies. They have been set up dark blue background to show off their colour better.

A collection of a dozen cupcakes decorated to look like flowers in the yellow part of the spectrum. There are two daffodils, two roses, three dahlias, two ranunculus and three daisies. They have been set up dark blue background to show off their colour better.

I had the lighting and the energy to do a proper photo shoot of my cupcakes from last night. Now that I’ve had some distance from the project, I am quite pleased with how they turned out. They are lemon cupcakes with lemon curd filling and vanilla buttercream. I made them for my sister’s birthday.

This is basically the plot of Doctor Who.

Watercolour of single red phone box, set in grass on the edge of a road. A picnic table is behind and to the right and behind the grass is the sea, and low mountains rise up behind.

#ArtDD2026
Lonely phone box

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Detailed image of the Moon from Earth

Detailed image of the Moon from Artemis

This is so neat - check out the side of the Moon we don't normally see!

Left - me, taken from my backyard (the face we all always see)

Right - taken from #ArtemisII ... note how the mare have shifted left and the right is showing more of the far side!

(note - rotated to match perspective)

The muted colours of this scene, and the flat light, really feel like an Atlantic morning. Behind the solitary railway van a decaying fishing vessel and a smaller rowing boat sit at the top of the beach, between two sheds. The backdrop is painted, but it's impossible to tell where things become two dimensional.

Photographs don't really capture it, but this layout drops away before the backdrop, so it looks like there's really a beach there.

If she was feeling mischievous the exhibitor would tell somebody it was all modelled perfectly and watch them jump up and down to try and see it...

"Do you want me to run a train?"
"Nah, I'm happy just watching the wildlife."

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

if we lived in a society that wanted to function we'd make being an air traffic controller the job with the best support in the world with plenty of rest time and deep coverage for every role

instead we have underpaid people
working 60+ hour weeks

the controller was caught up managing a plane that needed a gate for an emergency and lost track, and there's zero reason the same person should ever be doing both those jobs

🫧 Smoke trapped in a bubble on water: surface tension, soap film physics and fluid mechanics in action

Ripon Cathedral is a permeated by the most delightful combination of accumulated openings - so much so that the light show at certain times is spectacular 📸 is mine.

An Atkinson Grimshaw sky!!

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

He dances in a way I have only seen horses dance. He possesses a power and majesty we will never know.

Good morning, here’s a little photo collage of details taken from a variety of my embroideries for you today. Hope it’s the pop of colour you may need… 😉🪡🌿🌺 #stitchedart #embroideryartist #thesewingsongbird

A split screen: on the left is a crested Roman helmet in the foreground with a tunic of scale armour (lorica squamata) in the background. On the right is a close up of the tunic and the scales are practically indistinguishable from the scales of a pangolin (but there again we're on our third coffee).

We're marking World Pangolin Day by remembering that Roman soldiers would routinely dress as pangolins before going into battle.

Shit I didn't include the link. Maybe you shouldn't trust me. Draw your horse here:

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Jim Henson and The Muppets Visit The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - 03/18/1975 YouTube video by Johnny Carson

If you watch old interviews of Jim Henson, you realize that Kermit and Ernie have something close to his natural speaking voice. It really is Henson's voice that I miss.

A screenshot of Lala and Po from the teletubbies. The screenshot is clearly taken from someone's phone, as the borders of the tv can be seen, as well as glimpses into the apartment behind them. Po is in bed wrapped up in a blanket. The text below them reads "I know you were high at my mother-in-laws funeral..."

More screenshots from the Teletubbies. Lala seems to be upset with a terrified Po. the text below reads "Did you kill the dog? Why would you do that?!"

A third screenshot from the Teletubbies, this time the same scene as before. Po is wearing an apron while Lala seems to still be upset at him. The text below reads "You're nothing but a failure of a man."

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.

I have translated some of the highlights

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

England's First Bespectacled Scholar?

This gargoyle on Great Ponton's church tower (1519) may be one of the earliest representations of spectacles in English sculpture. Our scholarly figure peers through his glasses while holding pen and parchment - perhaps immortalising a real person.

an ocean streches off into the distance, as shadow are cast on a sandy beach

Franco Fontana, Baia delle Zagare, 1970

backlit line of trees a fence with a figure almost hidden in the shadows stood by the fence.

John Atkinson Grimshaw, Figure in the Moonlight, 1861