This is one of my favourite Greek vases, known as ‘the tuna seller’. It paints a delightful scene that resonates through the ages to today - two old boys having a chat while one, the fishmonger, prepares tuna steaks for the other.
🏛️ Museo Mandralisca, Cefalu
📷 mine
#AncientBlueSky #Art #Archaeology
A package of KFC “colonel’s favorite jellybeans” with fried chicken, sweet corn, and gravy flavors
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
Over 250 years old, the 'Silver Swan' is an automaton exhibited at the Bowes Museum in England. The life-sized swan is a device powered by a clockwork mechanism that includes a music box.
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Can't belive me said cloaca.
Neil Young, painted by Joni Mitchell
Neil Young, painted by Joni Mitchell.
50 years ago today, cameras started rolling on Star Wars.
At that moment, no one could have imagined that this was a turning point for pop culture and for all of our lives. A journey to a galaxy far, far away that changed everything forever.
A Moche stirrup-spout bottle with the form of a Tyto alba, the western barn owl. Orangish in color, with faded white stripes on the deep feathered tufting around its eyes, the owl looks down and slightly to its right. Incredibly realistic.
The goddess Athena herself would have coveted this stirrup-spout bottle in the shape of an owl. Created thousands of miles across the ocean from Greece, this bottle is typical of the work of Moche ceramicists of Peru’s North Coast. #MetMuseum 🏺 1/
200-500 CE. 📸 me
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Crazy day deserves a crazy type video. Makes us smile ..
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Brass (7th March 1983). George, recovering in hospital, receives a visit from Bradley Hardacre.
Still one of the coolest covers ever.
Top of the Pops (4th March 1982). Currently sitting at number 15 in the hit parade, ABC perform Poison Arrow.
#DavidBowie
#NicolasRoeg
#CandyClark
The Man Who Fell to Earth
"Television. The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything. It *shows* you everything about life on Earth, but the true mysteries remain. Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space."
The first edition of Fingerbobs was broadcast on this day in 1972. Devised by Joanne and Michael Cole (the creators of Bod) and presented by Rick Jones, the thirteen episodes made were regularly repeated until the mid 1980's.
It definitely does feel very much like a soap at the moment, rather than a ongoing tale of rural folk.
If I win the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs
The first episode of Bagpuss was originally broadcast on this day in 1974. Created by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate, the series ran for just 13 episodes (with voices provided by Postgate, Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner).
ITV Play of the Week - A Midsummer Night's Dream (7th February 1965). Benny Hill gives his Bottom an airing with the likes of Patrick Allen, Peter Wyngarde, Alfie Bass and Bernard Bresslaw also appearing.
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Zircon crystals are nearly indestructible, and are some of the only things to survive the hellish pressure and heat of the Haldean Eon, when the earth was formed. The oldest zircons are found in Jack Hills, Australia, where our specimen was found. It may be small, but it's 4.4 billion years old!
Zircon crystals are nearly indestructible, and are some of the only things to survive the hellish pressure and heat of the Haldean Eon, when the earth was formed. The oldest zircons are found in Jack Hills, Australia, where our specimen was found. It may be small, but it's 4.4 billion years old!
Do we think the farm will be the wedding gift?
Yes. Who would want an engagement ring that had been...
Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV (1st February 1985). "My mother gave birth to twins in an unheated washhouse and then got straight up and continued the mangling, so think on".
The fact that Lego went from being the most amazing, creative, cheap toy brand to the most expensive, uncreative but insanely popular junk needs to be studied.
A trailer for 'Panzer Front' on the PlayStation.
David Bowie's album Station To Station came out 50 years ago today. #MusicSky
My grown children always tease me that porridge made with water is my favourite food because it's all they saw me eat. I hate porridge. I only ate it because it was 50p for a bag and I didn't want to let them know we were poor as shit. The 'proper food' was for them
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Would so like to be there!
I found out today that one of the forces pushing Trump the hardest for this Greenland shit is… the owner of Estée Lauder.
Sharing this here because they own SO MANY makeup brands and I bet a lot of you might like to join me in not repurchasing anything from this makeup brand family!
