Los Angeles based artist Jeff Nishinaka constructs highly intricate monochromatic paper sculptures featuring animals, urban landscapesand other whimsical scenes.
“To paint human beings, and paint them well—that’s the really difficult thing.” —Gustave Courbet
Courbet’s female nudes shocked critics. He depicted a modern woman in a style referencing classical poses.
The inscription translated reads, “Old man, here’s one to send Saint Beuve if he gives us a hard time!,” a reference to literary historian and critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, known for his conservative opinions.
i learned that Willie, a parrot, alerted its owner, Megan Howard, when the toddler she was babysitting began to choke. Megan was in the bathroom, the parrot began screaming “mama, baby” while flapping its wings as the child turned blue. Megan rushed over and performed the Heimlich, saving the girls life (x)
Homeobox mutations! If you’ve dipped your toes into developmental bio you might’ve heard of Hox genes—those are a type of homeobox gene that control head-to-tail body order. The coloring on the flies represents a rough Hox map.
Jerboas are the fucking stupidest god damn animals I love them so much.
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when i was a little kid i had a book about a boy who heard his friend had a ‘baby kangaroo’ and the boy went bicycling off to see it but there was a storm coming in and he almost got swept out to sea, and he got really sick and never got there, but then his friend came to visit him and showed him the ‘baby kangaroo‘ and it was one of these. i have a really vivid image of the kid lying in bed with a jerboa standing on his chest, and he’s looking poleaxed with delight. i loved that book. but i can’t remember the name or the author or anything specific enough that i could look it up. alas.
Preserved within a small tin canister, the cream was discovered during excavations by Pre-Construct Archaeology of a Roman temple precinct on Tabard Street, Southwark in 2003. The main constituent of the cream was animal fat mixed with starch and tin oxide.
