Art by Maruša Gorjup
Gustav Klimt, The Park, 1909
cigarettes and list of maritime disasters on wikipedia on a cool summer night
All this discourse over who does "painting with light"
Hiroshi Nagai's paintings need sunglasses to look at.
They look like how it feels to walk across a parking lot on a 98° summer day without a speck of shade in sight.
They look like heaven but also like you'd burn your bare feet on the ground.
Even when you can see shade you know it's not enough and the minute you step out you'll be burnt to a crisp like a vampire.
And it's BEAUTIFUL
We are approaching the maximum of images you can post here so I thought it was time I make a little showcase of all the formation pieces we covered so far on the streams.
For people who don't know: for several months now I draw one formation or fossil locality every Saturday. The next place we visit is chosen by a wheel of names, which we also constantly fill up again when a new formation is picked.
I try to make it as interesting as possible in my composition and choice of animals and I can tell you this series has been a great training when it comes to constructing these, how I call them, Menageries.
I have to thank a team of friends and colleagues who help behind the scenes with research, creation of size charts and conversation partners when it comes to deciding on the compositions of these pieces. Their help has been invaluable!
Can we get around the 30 image limit by reposting with a new image to the thread each week? We shall see. Mazon Creek now, Toolebuc formation this Saturday.
Adding Toolebuc formation
Adding the Cleveland Shale of the Ohio formation.
Adding the Consthum quarry
Adding the Ermaying formation
Adding the Bahariya formation!
Adding the Whitewater formation!
Btw. this was the last formation piece of the year, I would love to know what has been your favorite so far!
Adding the Bugti hills member of the Chitarwata formation.
First formation stream of the year!
Adding the Gigantopithecus fauna of Pleistocene China!
Adding the Hell Creek formation from the latest Cretaceous of North America! Our 1 year anniversary for this series!
Adding the Rio do Rasto formation from the middle Permian of Brazil!
Adding the Corral Bluffs from the early Paleocene of the Denver formation.
Adding the Fossil Butte member of the Eocene Green River formation.
Adding the Soom Shale, member of the Cederberg Formation in South Africa. A late Ordovician world of oddities.
Adding the Miocene St. Bathans fauna from New Zealand! A spark of life after this fauna island nearly drowned in the Oligocene!
Adding the Candeleros formation from the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Argentina. Home of Giganotosaurus and many sauropods.
The Words You Say
A commune of Homo floresiensis on the beach of Flores island 75.000 years ago.
twenty years across the sea
thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)
like yeah thats how it feels. thats what it feels like to exist sometimes. he gets it
Also very big! Takes up two stories!
The Alpilles with Olive Trees in the Foreground (1889) by Vincent van Gogh
Mt. Etna - Sicily, Italy (2025)