I’m making collages, sharing pictures of mushrooms and nature I take. Beers/comics❤️.https://substack.com/@ryanplaffertyI’ll add some Gonzo style google reviews
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It was not at all by chance that Christianity, which grew out of Mediterranean culture, had adopted as its own alimentary symbols bread, wine, and oil, of the Greco-Roman tradition. (The first two became Eucharistic symbols and the third an instrument of sacramental anointing.) - Albert Sonenfeld
Old Books look so cool
de Flers, Robert. Ilsée, Princesse de Tripoli. Illus. Alphonse Mucha, limited ed. Paris: Léon Gruel, 1897. source: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA (not on view)
Conspiracy theorists really don't understand the difference between media with genuine occult themes, and media that simply has occult aesthetic. Media with occult aesthetic is all over the place; media with actual occult themes is much less common. Most works that look occult are just using occult (or pseudo-occult!) aesthetic to tell a completely mundane narrative about coming of age or accepting responsibility or something.
if you often like or reblog my posts i 100% remember your username and mentally go “oh yes friend” every single time i see you in my notes or on my dash
Invasive Ice plants from Australia. California also has problems with eucalyptus trees from the same damn place. Filled with flammable oils… not only is it invasive it increases fire risk.
Took these in Big Sur California.
Here is what iNaturalist has to say:
Incredible
#Miniature Monday
Pandora's Box by Peter & Donna Thomas
This is part of a series focusing on a small fraction of the lovely artists books by Peter and Donna Thomas!
Today's item is a scroll on a wooden frame that the makers compare to Pandora's Box-easy to open, but harder to put back! (Don't worry- I got it rolled back up again safely.)
When unrolled, it features a quotation from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five, which begins: "I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres." The text is on a backdrop of green and blue linoleum cuts by Donna Thomas.
Peter and Donna Thomas are "book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books." They have made over 100 limited edition books, often with Peter making the paper, and Donna doing the illustrations.
Check out more of Donna and Peter's books at Uiowa here.
--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student
Jumy-M Let’s go for a drink / 酒呑んでけ
This is rad, its funny how they note it as a weed, something that grows in undesirable places.
Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/miniatures-from-a-12th-century-medical-and-herbal-collection
The Latin at the bottom reads: “Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing.”
Happy420 #fourtwenty #420day
Graffiti Zines of the 1990s. New Exhibition “Subscription to Mischief”, Letterform Archive.
Hard to swallow truth pills
Everyone you dislike is not a narcissist.
Every unpleasant experience is not trauma. Having needs does not make you codependent. Disagreement is not gaslighting. Conflict is not abuse. Taking offense is not being triggered.
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Purple edged bonnet, Mycena purpureofusca
