A Friends Cat

Wedge Tailed Eagle floating over the salt pans yesterday. A little further south than normal. We pulled over to watch it until we were running late.

Four Horses, details from a 17th century Persian manuscript.

Working my way through the mending pile

so this morning i was playing with the slow-mo mode on my phone, hoping to get a majestic vid of a bumblebee taking off

but instead i found this dumbfuck

We were watching the glass blowing competition show on netflix because it's really cool to see those talented artists do their thing...

But I will NEVER forgive the judges for eliminating an amazing artist who's concept was that plastic hamster tubes are actually dangerous for hamsters yet they are normalized in our society so they made a beautiful glass rendition of an endless loop of colorful hamster tubes as an expression of how we can be trapped by society in a loop of behavior that is normalized but actually killing us

And the judges were like "this isnt DEEP ENOUGH" because they dont care enough about hamsters to learn and interpret the artist's statement at the level it was meant for.

They literally saw the glass renditions of colorful tubes that represent suffering and being trapped in a glossy predesigned hell and went "this is too normal and isnt saying anything important actually" Fuck them!!!!

Anyways Gemma should have won and I'm so happy to see that she didn't let it stop her amazing concept and she continued with it outside of the time constraints of the show. Fuck yes Gemma

My new fox skull made my painting look finished. My house is so lush and bright this time of year. And things feel more finished than they did in December.

Yes! I need breakfast gum because sometimes it’s too early or I’m too sad for mint. There’s only so much jerky can do

They need to create a gum that tastes like Vegemite on toast. I've had enough of mint.

The Silver Swan, built by John Joseph Merlin and James Cox, 1773.

Source: Mechanical Marvels, Clockwork Dreams (BBC)