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Monday, August 31, 2015
nubbsgalore: european ground squirrels photographed by julian...
european ground squirrels photographed by julian rad in vienna, who explains, “you have to be at eye level with the squirrels. that means you have to lay on your stomach for quite a few hours in order to get them in front of your lens. you have to make yourself invisible. it is important that they have no indication you are there.“
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Sunday, August 30, 2015
fuck-yeah-aquascaping: The full gallery of the top 127...
The full gallery of the top 127 aquariums of 2015
get inspired!
ugh, so pretty.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2015-8-30)
Saturday, August 29, 2015
geek-art: Misha Petrick & Mazok Pixels – Mad Max Fury Road...
Misha Petrick & Mazok Pixels – Mad Max Fury Road Animated Pixels
Génial travail d’équipe entre Misha Petrick (illustration) et Mazok Pixels (animation), pour cette merveilleuse série de gifs animés des véhicules de Mad Max Fury Road pixelisés ! Gardez un oeil sur leur Behance, 3 véhicules sont encore à pixeliser…
Awesome team work between Misha Petrick (illustration) and Mazok Pixels (animation) on this glorious series of Mad Max Fury Road pixelized vehicles. Stay tuned for more vehicles to come on their Behance page !
Via Be Street
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brainsforbabyjesus: darksnowfalling: warpedellipsis: quasi-normalcy: meariver: huntokar: quasi-...
No, I’m serious, if women all got together and went into electrical engineering or automotive repair en masse, then ten years later people would be talking about how it was a “soft field” and it would pay proportionately less than other fields.
Likewise, if men moved en masse to bedeck themselves in sparkles and make-up, then suddenly you’d get a bunch of editorials talking about how classy they look.
None of these things are inherently masculine or feminine; none of these things inherently elevate you or drag you down. But whatever women are seen to do is automatically seen as being inherently more frivolous than anything men do. And shaming women for not pigeonholing themselves into a narrow range of acceptable “masculine” behaviours is just going to result in the goalposts getting moved once again.
This is literally what happened to basically every field women have entered. The opposite happens when men enter. Computers used to be a “woman thing” until the guys who did it got really mad about how badly their job was viewed and realized they could fix it by forcing out women.
Also happened/ is happening with the fields of biology and psychology….
I honestly wonder how much of the backlash against public education in the last generation has been due to teaching becoming a woman-dominated profession.
Fashion used to be a men’s thing. Then women got involved in the late 17/1800’s, so men went the other way because it came to be seen as “frivolous” and “anti-intellectual” to care about how you looked. Add in the homophobia that arose around that time, bam, staid bland dress. Ditto leggings/tights, that are now called attention-whoring when on men they were required to show you cared about your figure and had the money to pay for such a fitted item.
People want to say misogyny doesn’t exist, that male privilege doesn’t exist. Look beyond “living memory” and you’ll find that’s what drives the “inexplicable reversals” society seems to make on many things. Hell, just look beyond your own society, and you’ll find out that what’s considered “for men” elsewhere is held in high esteem while here it’s scoffed at purely because it’s “for women”:
- Skinny jeans are the height of masculinity in several east Asian societies, rather than being seen as “gay” in the USA because of their association with femininity.
- Medical fields in Russia are valued like kindergarten teachers are here, because it’s women who are the doctors instead of men.
- Love and romance are highly valued in eastern countries, because men are interested in it too—of course they would be, surely you want to share your life with someone? Here, it’s strictly a women’s subject.
The field of anthropology as a whole illustrates this.
Significantly higher proportions of females compared to males are currently entering the fields of archaeology and biological anthropology, and as this occurs, the prestige, funding, acceptance as valid kinds of science, etc, are fading quickly.
This has already occurred with linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology in particular went VERY quickly from being seen as a manly, scientific discipline (e.g., Franz Boas, Bronisław Malinowski) to being seen as a touchy-feely female thing.
What I get from this is that we should equally distribute ourselves among all fields until we’ve ruined absolutely everything.
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ms-qualia: Hannibal’s aesthetic intentionally invokes...
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Still Life with Fruit, Dead Game, Vegetables, a Live Monkey, Squirrel and Cat-- Franz Snyders
Hannibal’s aesthetic intentionally invokes “vanitas,” both the concept and the style of painting. I especially see Hannibal’s cinematography and food porn in the work of Pieter Claesz. The cinematography leans more blue than golden, though. Appropriate in that we no longer live by candle light.
Vanitas is the old school concept of “vanity,” which is closer what we’d call “nihilism” or “futility.” 16th century Dutch still lifes were commissioned by extremely wealthy and tasteful people who wanted to show off they could afford the luxuries in the painting, but also wanted to exhibit a proper Calvinist sense of their place in the world. So, e-v-e-r-ything in these still lifes is a reminder that you will one day die. It is intentionally lush, unsettling, and evocative of death. Food is half eaten or rotting, flowers are wilted, cups are overturned, the animals wild and either dead or struggling to survive. Very Hannibal.
I particularly think the still life with dead game sub-theme in the vanitas genre captures the “things come apart”/ Second Coming feel of the show. Don’t you think?
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2015-8-29)
- Apocalyptica (1000)
- Between the Buried and Me (707)
- Korpiklaani (727)
- Katatonia (943)
- Anathema (728)
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scienceisbeauty: Dancing Droplets A puzzling observation,...
Dancing Droplets
A puzzling observation, pursued through hundreds of experiments, has led Stanford researchers to a simple yet profound discovery: Under certain circumstances, droplets of fluid will move like performers in a dance choreographed by molecular physics.
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kateordie: ginhix: angelrin89: rocket-prose: Classic...
Classic animators doing reference poses for their own drawings. I’m in love with these images.
This makes me really happy
How it’s done
Show me the women too
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Friday, August 28, 2015
staff: skunkbear: One of my favorite animals, inexpertly...
One of my favorite animals, inexpertly rendered by centuries of European artists. That one from the Netherlands looks like a high school mascot.
If you’re in the mood to learn about some other giant animals, check out Skunk Bear’s latest video.
We missed elephant day but NPR’s science Tumblr is called skunkbear and that’s what’s important here.
I have always loved medieval bestiaries and their attempts to draw elephants
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clubjade: Star Wars is not here for your armor...
Star Wars is not here for your armor misconceptions. In a response that’s getting some digital ink, the official Star Wars page’s reply to a clueless comment on Phasma’s armor. Just say no to actually dangerous boob-plates!
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2015-8-28)
Thursday, August 27, 2015
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2015-8-27)
matthen: 8 Earth years are roughly equal to 13 Venus years,...
8 Earth years are roughly equal to 13 Venus years, meaning the two planets approximately trace out this pattern with 5-fold symmetry as they orbit the Sun. [more] [code]
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