One Tough Nut

People give these hard working pillars of the community shit? For shame!

Do people in the USA not normally have street sellers?

No we do the problem is cunts usually call the cops on them to get them shut down for no reason other than to be cunts.

specifically white people call the cops on Latinos and poc in general because they think it’s either trashy or that all poc are secretly lacing food with heroin or whatever for sport. I don’t care if it’s an FDA violation sometimes give me the churro and fresh corn merchants.

why would they be lacing food with heroin that shit's expensive

Affluent white people think poc can spawn illicit drugs once per long rest to poison white children as a free action.

Inuit warms his wife’s feet, Robert E. Peary (1890s)

#oh no!! #his LUNCH

Austin Powers adaptation that focuses on Austin's emotional reaction to being frozen for over 50 years. He tries to go find old friends and loved ones from his time, but they're all very old now and many of them no longer believe in the radical projects of the counterculture movement and are now actively working against the very things they fought for during the 60s. Meanwhile, he sees all around him people still fighting for the very same things against states that have become more and more effective at suppressing the radical leftist ideas that he holds dear. He becomes disillusioned with the cat and mouse game between himself and Dr. Evil, where an evil capitalist supported by the systems of the state fights against representatives of that same state. His dreams of a better world dashed by suppression, subversion, and apathy. Austin Powers then goes rogue, fighting against not only Dr. Evil, but the same secret government agencies he once allied himself with in an attempt to affect real change from outside the system. And also he fucks a woman named Peg Ingyu or some shit.

#okay but we're going to call it Shagfall or something

Embroideries works by Tran Hung

Snuffbox

c.1740

France

MFA Boston

I have never in my life seen an objet d'art that qualified for the Tiffany Paradox, but here we are. It looks like it fell off a middle school girls bedroom desk circa 1987.

I love this.

also I went and looked it up on the MFA website and as I suspected, it’s made of mother-of-pearl! the rainbow parts are probably from iridescent blacklip shells, and the rest is carved white oyster shell.

There are some Chinese porcelains which are definitely worthy of the Tiffany paradox - I mean, sure, it was made in the 1300s but it’s a lemon yellow tea bowl - but honestly this one really epitomizes the matter.

Hey, check out these funky Chico’s necklaces from my Jewish grandmother’s collection:

SIKE they are 1400 YEARS OLD

ooh, I’ve got some more! Look at this painting.

A Caricature Group by John Hamilton Mortimer, c. 1766.

This does not look like an 18th century oil painting, it looks more like something out of Mad magazine, but nope. 1760’s.

I made a pinterest board for 18th century pottery just to save all the Weird Stuff to it, like this horrible bear jug, which is just one of many similarly horrible 18th century bear jugs! It’s hideous and I love it.

Mugs shaped like people’s heads was also A Thing, here’s one from c. 1782.

And I LOVE this teapot with fossil decoration c. 1760-65. It’s amazing. Perfect. I would so dearly love to have a replica and feature it prominently in a photoshoot with some of my 18th century costumes.

This one is also c. 1760’s.

And one more, also c. 1760!

I love pretty historical dishes with delicate floral patterns as much as the next guy, but seeing weird and bright and tacky stuff from over 2 centuries ago makes me happy.

Honourable mention to these c. 1788-93 stockings with little knitted portraits in between the brightly coloured stripes.

I discovered, when investigating what 1840s pearl earrings looked like for a ball outfit, that they look

EXTREMELY 1980s

seriously I was able to buy something from the Fancy Section of Claire’s that looked almost exactly like the top example

I can’t believe I forgot to add the 1840’s 8-bit foxes!!

This embroidered waistcoat is one of 3 I’ve seen with the same design, so it must have been published in a magazine or something. It’s so weird knowing that it’s 1840’s because it looks so pixel-y, especially with that bright blue background. (And yes, I’ve seen plenty of other pixel-y looking old needlepoint and and such, but they’re usually floral.)

Also, wow, those do look very 1980’s! Very convenient for costumers when things repeat like that!

There’s also a surprising amount of historical jewelry that looks exactly like something my middle school classmates would wear.

Necklace, 1861-67, V&A.

Ring, 1730-60, V&A.

Ring, c. 1780, V&A.

Turns out people have liked heart shaped jewelry for a very long time! …I’ll try not to reblog this a 3rd time when I inevitably think of even more stuff, because a post like this could go on forever.

@jamiebythesea

It’s funny that people picture Victorian fashion as dull an steampunkish in colour, when in reality, bright garish colours were super fashionable thanks to the invention on new dyes.

@thebibliosphere

The Evolution of Mutant political thought

Chaitanya Deshpande

Old God.  Crowned.

The landscape of my dreams

“If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day; if you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime,” but you have done neither. You have stood before us and eaten fish after fish, and chided us for our greed as you have done so. You have cast aside their offal and simultaneously chided us for our waste. You then told us that, coincidentally, you owned the river, and our parents should have gotten us the same if we wanted fish. You gave a man a fish to murder us if we step too close to the river, or speak too loud, or eat a fish from another river. You’ve copyrighted the fishing net. It costs us fish to leave.

Playful Seniors Wear Organic Materials to Personify Nature

Millennials are always talking about disappearing into the woods and becoming one with the moss, meanwhile our elders are out there living our dreams. #directaction

I lost it entirely at the rhubarb.   I didn’t know I needed this, and it is beautiful beyond words.

made jaime & brienne in artbreeder (o:

Oh, I like this a lot.  Most people tend to make Brienne’s eyes a much richer, darker blue, but this works for me. 

It was kind to omit the broken nose though.  But yeah, this works.

@chunkita Don’t mean to expose your tags but this was spot on

Matthew Simmonds, an art historian and architectural stone carver based in Italy, has created a collection of exceptionally beautiful miniature spaces carved from stone. Having worked on a number of restoration projects in the UK – from Westminster Abbey to Ely Cathedral - his skills have been transferred into work of a much smaller, if not more intricate, scale. Hewn from large stone blocks (some of marble), the level of intricacy Simmonds has achieved in the architectural detailing is almost incredible. Capitals, vaults and surfaces all distort and reflect light in a very beguiling way.