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[Video Description: An individual opens a rusty door in what appears to be an old stone wall, revealing a area so filled with fog one cannot see the walls, ceiling, floor, if they're even within range to be seen. Rising from out of and going off into the fog is a crisscrossing of worn metal walkways. A caption at the top of the video reads "Bro said he knew a spot" with a skull emoji. /End description]

@artemispanthar

are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

this is not just "look out the window and sigh" longing. i'm talking you're at the grocery store and you're suddenly hit w a wave of grief bc you don't have it. you don't have whatever it is you ache so badly to have. you go about your everyday life and yet it throbs under your skin moment by moment, almost as though it has a life of its own. that's the kind of longing i mean.

this encounter seems very intimate and magical, like a moment in a dream

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen. The end of it omfg

It should also be noted that in the original post of this that I saw on FB, it’s remarked upon that the cat is stealing this stuffed tiger from the neighbor’s house. This is not his stuffed animal. He has stolen it multiple times apparently.

hobbes going on a trip

VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.

Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)

I just looked, and there are 170 other people on there, also checking to see if there are fish waiting.

Please remember, if ever you are tempted to make a sweeping statement about human nature, that on this night in March, 2024, while war rages, there are 171 of us looking to see if a fish needs us to ring a doorbell.

Plenty else is going on, but also that.

(PS, the site says that the busiest times for fish are sunrise and sunset, which for now are at about 6:30, AM and PM, local time. Local time in Utrecht is 1 hour ahead of GMT, 5 hours ahead of EST, if that helps. I'm going to try to remember to check back again around 2 AM my time, when it will be morning for the fish!)

i’m such a “i want your attention” but “won’t bother you” kinda person

sometimes the moral of the story really is just "you cannot go back and what happened to you is going to be with you for the rest of your life. but it's still going to be okay" huh

kinda want to be held for 5 hours straight

Andrey Zakirzyanov - The aquarium / Life on mars (detail). Oil on canvas, 150x70 cm (2009)

Rembrandt

“Rembrandt ”

by Andrey Zakirzyanov

2007

200x150cm

oil on canvas

https://www.flickr.com/photos/art_by_andrey_zakirzyanov/3612430522/

'It often seems to me that the night is even more richly coloured than the day, coloured in the most intense violets, blues and greens.’

~ Vincent van Gogh wrote to his sister, Willemien (1888).

This animation of 'Terrace of a Café at Night (Place du Forum)' is made by @andrey.zakirzyanov.

🎶 by @a_surotdinov

🖼️ in the collection of the lKröller Müller Museum, Netherlands.

Andrey Zakirzyanov, 3D Animation.

Vincent van Gogh, “Café Terrace at Night” on the Place du Forum, Arles (1888).

All animations were created without AI, but making use of various 3D software through careful texturing, modeling and conversion of two-dimensional images. The result is a realistic-looking reproduction perceptible as three-dimensional, thanks to the accurate calculation of perspective and the addition of colors, lights and shadows.

Music by Andrey Surotdinov.

Early in 1888, Van Gogh travelled to the fishing village of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He lived in Arles, and had never seen the Mediterranean Sea. He had to travel for hours in a coach to get there. But after the trip, he was greeted by the Mediterranean. Van Gogh stayed a while in Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. In barely a week, he made nine drawings and three paintings in and around the village.

This animation of 'Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer', (1888) is made by Andrey Zakirzyanov.

Florence and The Machine, from 100 Years Mary Oliver, from Sleeping In The Forest

Vincent Van Gogh, The Sower (detail)