@charlayn.eurosky.social
Sculptor, lapsed academic I use assemblage to create contemporary art based on the compositional strategies of Archaic Greek oral-formulaic poetry. https://charlaynvonsolms.com/link-in-bio
I did not have room for the complete citation so here it is: Timothy Gantz, 1993 "Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Volume 1". The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Here it is in the Open Library:
openlibrary.org/books/OL1722...
This version by Douris echoes two early Corinthian pots depicting men emerging from the mouths of serpentine monsters (Bonn 860 and Samos: VM frr). Possibly a version where Jason is swallowed by the dragon before slaying it dates at least as far back as the 7th Century. (See T. Gantz 1993, 359-60)
I enjoy your use of colour in these. Have you seen this one by Mondrian?
bsky.app/profile/mlob...
With fronds like these, who needs anemones?
Voetstappe snags in jou kombuis is dus of 'n muis, of 'n hond, of 'n muishond?
Very serpentine. Looks like the type who'll steal your heart and your wealthy boss' son's trust fund.
Like fast food, fast fashion, chatbots, etc. things designed to be accessed and consumed as quickly and easily as possible generally provide little substance (with the most persistently damaging after-effects). Putting in the effort to get to the good stuff is what makes the good stuff worth getting
Also Instagram: "We know you chose to follow this specific group of people, but their posts don't conform to this week's algorithmically favoured format, so we're going to show you other things you never asked for instead."
crackling air-of-butter
That's because dead people provide all the nutrients and stories the average wildflower needs.
Screenshot of the BlueSky feed of a person with impeccable taste showing Charlayn von Solms under the category "e.g. Great Posters"
She takes no prisoners. But she does like getting chin scritches for exactly 34.596 seconds before ripping off the hand that gave them
When we finally create a functioning African Union, this can be the anthem 😂
Soylent Green. That film used to scare the bejeezus out of me. Now we're feeding our farmland, water, and habitable-climate-destroying energy-generating capacity to machines we don't actually need, all while creating what will probably be the one of the most destructive financial bubbles in history.
Chart produced by Anthropic showing the vast difference between the theoretical capability of language models compared to actual observed Claude usage. Source: https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-new-study-shows-ai-is-nowhere-near-its-theoretical-job-disruption-potential/
My grandmother used to say that paper is patient. You can theorize to your little heart's content, but that does not make it real.
Nee ons het nie 😉
Lttleviathan 😂
@stoopalu.bsky.social!
the wages of Calvinisin
on the snowdrifts oh so white,
what immortal hand or eye
could frame thy fearful squeakatry
I had an uncle who was a line fisherman, and he had a lure in his collection that looked like a little silver fish. It was articulated throughout, just like your armour, and the motion of water made it wriggle like a real fish. I spent hours obsessing over that magical thing.
I think he was a very immoral tiger in a previous life and this is his punishment.
OK. Full confession. Back in the 80's some friends and I were fooling around with an old Ouija board when "I'm into Something Good" came on. Someone asked "who sings that?" I started to say "Herman's Hermits" when all of a sudden Herman Melville's ghost pops up.
He's been hanging around ever since.
😂 this little guy will have Ahab longing for the tender mercies of the whale
