Venus, being born. Not from the sea.
It's a quite literal birth.
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Venus, being born. Not from the sea.
It's a quite literal birth.
Look again :) Takes everyone forever to notice, and then you can't unsee it.
Eine Person mit schulterlangen dunklen Haaren sitzt in einem langen schwarzen Kleidungsstück auf einer niedrigen Betonmauer am Meer, die Beine baumeln über der Kante. Links und rechts ragen bewaldete Inselberge aus dem hellblauen Wasser, der Himmel ist weit und leicht bewölkt. Auf der rechten Betonkante sitzt eine schwarze Katze und blickt zur Person hinüber, unten im Durchgang zwischen den Mauern sitzt eine weiß-grau getigerte Katze und schaut nach vorn. Die Szene wirkt ruhig und minimalistisch, mit viel freier Fläche und sanften Pastellfarben.
View across lichen-covered roofs, some red tile, some slate, and past the upper storeys of old red-brick buildings, to the sea. The sea is calm and the sky is blue and there is a clear winter light.
Horizon
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHs 📷 #photography
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Brian Froud - Troll Witch.
Oil on canvas.
A low-angle, eye-level perspective looking through a large, weathered stone archway of the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris. The ground is paved with uneven cobblestones, and to the left, a small portion of the Seine river is visible. In the distance, through the arch, a single person walks along a path lined with green trees. The overall atmosphere is historic and serene, captured under a pale sky.
Pont Neuf, Paris.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed
Is it socially acceptable to ask her agency? According to her website:
Frances is represented by the Wylie Agency. Contact mail[at]wylieagency.co.uk.
A black pen (in a crosshatch technique) and black printing ink (applied with a roller) illustration on off white paper of a Signalman and his box. The man stands at the foot of the stairs to his signalbox which is situated at the bottom of a rocky and wooded ravine. The box is illuminated from within, its light casts shadows of the man onto a railway track, the track runs into a dark and damp tunnel. Outside of the mouth of the tunnel stands a ghostly figure waving its arms, one across its face the other in the air. A gloomy and atmospheric scene.
I’m making my originals for The Signalman available to purchase. I doubt they’ll ever be published and they’re just sitting in a drawer, I’d like to think that they’re on a wall somewhere (and that I’ve got some brass for them!).
Soon…watch this space.
New painting! "Midsummer Procession", 33"x 21", Oil on Linen.
The leading expert on the subject is Kate Wiles, senior editor at History Today, who wrote this: solongasitswords.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/o...
A white blossom just about half open on a dark twig. Leaf buds opening around it. The rest of the tree is blurry in the background. Bright spring sunshine.
Spring is coming. Apricots are blooming. 🍑
#BloomScrolling #Spring #Puglia
Un personnage à trouvé la lune et pense la remettre à sa place
Street-art comme j'aime. Bonne soirée à tous et à toutes.
I'm originally from the same latitudes as you. Moved waaay south specifically because I really, really hate cold weather, but of course now it's freezing here as well 🥶 It's so annoying that after five weeks of this I'm looking for someone to pin the blame on 😄
A historical weather chart from meteocentre.co.uk, showing that we've barely had any snow these past two weeks
In fact we've been buried under snow since Xmas.
Sigh.
The tiny cupid aiming right at those multiple eyes is wildly determined. Love this mood.
@dolcepaganne.bsky.social "HYPNOS" (2025) 'inspired by the Greek god of sleep Hypnos'
Soft pastels and colored pencils on paper, 50x50 cm
#beautifulbizarre #popsurrealism #coloredpencils #mythology #fineart
Blue monochrome oil painting of a woman sitting surrounded and covered in blue ivy. Part of secret garden series.
Hello! Finally the good part of painting multiples, finishing them almost at the same time. Completed the third one this week. 5th painting for the secret garden series.🍃
#secretgarden #oilpainting #BlueSkyArt #art #BRart #traditionalart #blueart #trueref
Say what you will about the Anglo-Irish gentry, they did have a talent for names. Today I came across Middleton Westrena Biddulph of Rathrobin, Mountbolus, and his brother Assheton of Moneyguyneen House, Kinnitty.
The Migraine Trust website says it happens, and it's called 'silent migraine.' Hope you feel better in no time! 🌹
Ugh. All this prominence, and still can't afford to choose your bedfellows?
Panel 1. A graveyard: the gravedigger sits on a pile of earth. Hamlet stands before him, holding a skull. Hamlet: “Alas, poor yorick! I knew him, professor Horatio.” He tis looking at a lab-coated figure. Prof. Horatio: “Actually, my analysis suggests this skull belonged to a young woman from the late Neolithic era.” Panel 2. Leaving the graveyard Hamlet: “Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing.” Prof. Horatio: “What’s that, my lord?” Hamlet (angrily): “Dost thou have to spoil everything.”
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
ornate building, high gothic in design. trams and people on a busy street,
Piazza del Duomo, Milano, Italy, c. 1900
Estatua que adorna, juntament amb una altra que no surt a la imatge, la façana de la casa Solà a Olot, d'estil modernista.
La dama del balcó. Casa Solà. Olot. Mirades profundes.
#Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Stunday #EastCoastKin
It could be used with intention, e.g. the singular to emphasise denial of personhood ('The staff is nice enough' = your character doesn't acknowledge them as individuals), but mostly it just needs to sound right. You're eloquent, even in mundane posts, so you can safely go with your gut 🥂
A judgment call, depends on whether the group, in this context and in your opinion, is individuals acting together or more of a single entity that contains multitudes.
'England have scored a goal,' but 'England is sending troops,' that sort of thing. A flock of birds is likely singular.
A lone jelly shot against the setting sun on a golden beach, waves coming in from the right. The jelly throws a long shadow towards the viewer, a streak of sun glare behind it.
Got a little lost 🪼
#BlueskyArtShow #One #Archive #IslandLife
Was it on Google? You know you can switch off all that nonsense, right? Append -ai to the query, et voilà. On duckduckgo, you can disable it all in the settings and forget about it altogether.
A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces “YOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREA” and below that in smaller letters “Make sure you know the rules.”
I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
A birch tree is covered in hoar frost beside a beautiful royal blue loch, from the cairngorms national park in Scotland. Captured by drone, this shows a very unique perspective of a tree backed by water. Captured by Chris Harrison
The magic of winter ❄️
Hoar frost covers this old birch beside a small lochen deep in the Scottish wilderness.
#winter #nature #woodland #photography
