(Source: cattygal, via tallwhitney)
Dark Oils by Jeff Christensen
It’s a dark, Guillermo del Toro-esque world that Jeff’s macabre denizens inhabit, living out tormented existences or living to torment others. His oil paintings reflect an underworld of impossible anatomies and wretched landscapes while still possessing an almost innocent, Alice in Wonderland-style whimsy.
Artist: Deviantart / Facebook
Balloon Arts by Michael Abrahamson
I’ve seen plenty of balloon voodoo in my time following clowns around, but Michael’s balloon-fu is stronger and geekier than most. Aside from balloon-twisted T-Rex skeletons and iconic video game characters like Cloud and Mario, Michael’s air-bending masterpiece has go to be his Balloon Xenomorph, a meticulously folded tribute to H.R. Giger’s grotesque alien anatomies.
Artist: DeviantArt
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Hey, Internet friends!
I was looking through my queue of webcomics, and there is a startling lack of diversity in the creators that I follow. Sure, I follow plenty of women creators, and even a fair amount from the LGBTQ community. However, the list is so white that I’d be embarrassed to wear it…
Minimal Posters - Six Women Who Changed Science. And The World.
Take a look at the sequence of images below (I recommend clicking through to enlarge, Tumblr Dashboard folks). Works best if you stare at the dot:
Color? Or black and white?
The rods and cones of your retina respond to the illumination (black-white) and color of a scene, respectively….
Caterpillars
plate 24 fromHistoire naturelle de la France: Papillons. (1884).12e Partie. Jean Étienne Bercé.
(via: Vintage Printable)
(via scientificillustration)
Healthy lung vs. Smoker’s lung, 2013
Reason #2387 I quit smoking. Best decision I’ve ever made. Hardest to follow through.
(via scientificillustration)
"the first word I teach my daughter will be “no”
she will sing it to me and scream it at me
and I will never tell her to quiet down
she will say it when I tell her to go to bed
when I tell her she can’t have anymore candy
or watch anymore television
“no” will be my daughter’s favorite word
not only will I teach her how to say it
but I will teach her to repeat it over and over
again until every single atom in her tiny little body
hums with it
If it makes her less soft than the other girls
I will take her to museums and show her
what marble and stone can become
I will brush her hair and let her wear whatever
she wants
whatever that makes her
she will know
that the world has been built upon “no’s”
upon rejections and refusals and swords
if this makes her a warrior in a field of
flowers, then she will walk without fear
of being trampled on
the first word I teach my daughter will be
“no”
and when she grows up
in a world that tells her
she can’t walk down the street by herself
that “no” will be heard
it will roar and echo down the block
and she will never be told to keep
silent
she will not know the meaning of the word."
she will sing it to me and scream it at me
and I will never tell her to quiet down
she will say it when I tell her to go to bed
when I tell her she can’t have anymore candy
or watch anymore television
“no” will be my daughter’s favorite word
not only will I teach her how to say it
but I will teach her to repeat it over and over
again until every single atom in her tiny little body
hums with it
If it makes her less soft than the other girls
I will take her to museums and show her
what marble and stone can become
I will brush her hair and let her wear whatever
she wants
whatever that makes her
she will know
that the world has been built upon “no’s”
upon rejections and refusals and swords
if this makes her a warrior in a field of
flowers, then she will walk without fear
of being trampled on
the first word I teach my daughter will be
“no”
and when she grows up
in a world that tells her
she can’t walk down the street by herself
that “no” will be heard
it will roar and echo down the block
and she will never be told to keep
silent
she will not know the meaning of the word."
— The First Word I Teach My Daughter (via girl-violence)
(via thefeministpress)
