a couple years ago the eric carle museum of picture book art had an exhibit on diane & leo dillon who are responsible for so many iconic illustrations. i went back twice just to see the collection again. this is a sliver of their work— it’s hard to find high res images.
Ok. Thank you. Carry on.
Sitting cross legged keeps your blood pressure steady? I’ve run low my entire life but rarely have issues because I sit cross legged no matter what. When I do have issues it’s because I was lying down and got up way too quickly
It's kind of a joke in the dysautonomia community that we all sit like pretzels and didn't know why until we got diagnosed -- we were unknowlingly keeping our blood up in our core.
Another fun thing I learned is that jaw clenching can be attributed to subcocious vestibular regulation. This has now led to a rather chicken or egg discussion in both the vestibular and TMJ medical communities because some people believe untreated TMJ leads to vertigo, while others are arguing it's the vertigo causing the TMJ.
Bodies are neat. Confounding. But neat!
does this also include just generally sitting with your legs up on the chair with you?
Oh yeah, it’s not just cross legged it’s more just it’s too uncomfortable to sit “normally.”
If you’re always propping your legs up or pulling them close to your core, you might be unknowingly trying to prevent blood pooling.
on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport the first person on the moon went there by accident and promptly died. The next dozen or so people also went by accident, and also died. Number 14 figured out that people who go to the moon die and very cleverly brought a sword and six weeks of travel rations. This did not help.
No one on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport ever figured out why people die in space because they don’t need airplanes and never found it particularly interesting to climb tall mountains. Astronomers use telescopes to take pictures of the ever-growing pile of corpses on the moon.
“why don’t they teleport back” because they’re not on the planet where everyone can teleport anymore. try to keep up dumbass
the moral of the story is that a breathable atmosphere is important to one’s general well-being
Grand Duchess (Euthalia patala), family Nymphalidae, Chiang Mai, Thailand
photograph by Antonio Giudici
Errol Le Cain - illustration of ‘Thorn Rose’, a version of Sleeping Beauty.
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.
tea painting dump
Frans de Waal in The Bonobo and the Atheist:
[a chimp whom I had taught to bottle-feed a baby] had lost several offspring because of deficient lactation and was eager to adopt. Her previous losses had caused deep depressions, during which she’d isolate herself and scream for no apparent reason. Apart from raising this young chimp, she was able to keep her own infants in subsequent years thanks to her special skill. For a tool-using animal, giving the bottle is really not that hard. The rest of her life, this female was always insanely excited to see me, which happened only once every couple of years, as if I was a long-lost family member. It seemed related to my having helped her start a family.
Historically, famous and powerful people were very removed from the public eye, which allowed them to cultivate a certain mystique that was essential their prestige. In a sense this was win-win, because even though the public wants to know about its stars and leaders, they want even more to believe in them, to believe in that cultivated ideal. These days, though, there's pressure to be "on" all the time, to be constantly engaging with fans and followers, and it creates unsustainable demands on public figures which ultimately leave everyone worse off.
Like, just a specific example that's been on my mind lately: it used to be that if you were a dark lord, you'd spend most of your time in your fortress, and people mostly encountered you indirectly through your forts, your minions, the blighted land, whatever. People really only saw you personally at ceremonies, war marches, and public executions, so they could fill in the blanks with the kind of dread sovereign they wanted to have, and everyone was happy. With social media and paparazzi, though, there's this expectation to actually be that guy all the time, on tap, and it's just not feasible. No matter how much work you put in, eventually you'll have a bad day, someone will destroy your amulet or something, and the next day everyone's going to be sharing a phonecam video of you recoiling and saying "This cannot be!" and it doesn't even matter how much terror you struck in the hearts of the people, now you're the guy from the shocked wizard meme.
And the problem is that the skills that get you to that position don't really train you to deal with it. The first instinct is always to think "this is all a big mistake", and just get out there and start impaling people to shore up confidence, but that just makes it worse -- you can't impale your way out of problems in a global media landscape. It feels bad, but all you can really do is lock your account and take some space away from your work until it blows over.
thinking about anastasia trusova paintings again
CAN ANYONE HEAR ME
y’all hand sanitizer is GREAT but it doesn’t kill everything. not even most harsh household cleaners kill norovirus—which btw can survive on surfaces for TWO WEEKS. there’s a reason entire states experience noro outbreaks at a time. Please wash your hands with soap and water when you come home to keep yourself healthy 😭 you don’t have to be obsessive or scared or anything. Just 20 seconds with soap and warm water to have your own back
there’s this thing that keeps happening where a novel is called something like “The Merry Wives Of Doctor Dogshit” and then it gets adapted into a movie with the title “Defecation Point: Chronicle”
No there isn’t. That’s not true
im sorry
It’s okay. But do me a favor and tell me something real?
Wire gauge just means the diameter of the wire
say it again
Wire gauge just means the diameter of the wire
