I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Al Ahmadi oil field, Kuwait — Steve McCurry, 1991

Going to Xiu Xiu Eraserhead later. I watched the film again last night and to see all this again after everything that followed especially Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series, well there's something inexplicably magical about the coherence & abiding notes of Lynch's language & vibes, exceptional 🖤

There's always a Don't Invent The Torment Nexus. In the early 60s JG Ballard wrote a story called Studio 5, The Stars, in which creatives put prompts into the "Verse Transcriber" to get a tickertape of poetry or other writings. They live in a very comfortable dystopia: privileged but bored.

Cualquier recorte es una delicia, las capacidades del #JWST se hacen extraordinariamente evidentes. James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST Imaging dust knots in a planetary nebula TARG: #NGC7293 #Helix Nebula 2024-10-24 PI: Garcia Marin, Macarena NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

Please be briefly cheered up by this perfume bottle (Greek; c. 600BCE) from the Burrell Collection.

Wonderful rabbit hole #metaphor

May these possums shouting in Werner Herzog's voice bring comfort to your day.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to p 42, post the second sentence. "Le thym est encore un merveilleux antiseptique dont on peut dire qu'il agit "en conscience", mettant entrave au développement de ce qui est nuisible au bon fonctionnement de l'organisme, tout en préservant ce qui lui est favorable."

the woman behind it internationaltimes.it/the-woman-be... By Heathcote Williams

Frostnacht

Worth reading/watching in full.

The Creation of Land https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/the-creation-of-land-1924

participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.

Experiments in ferrous oak gall ink making. The standard ink used in Europe for 1,400 odd years because of its permanence and water resistance. Quite addictive and I will be making more. Boiling oak gall smells faintly of caramel, and the final ink smells similar to blood (high iron content).

A remixed Bridget Riley collage using pages from Studio International (July-August 1971)

Another apposite Jill McDonald Puffin Post illustration

ten years ago I was on this same beach when the starman departed; this morning, as I got out of the water, a meteor streaked across the sky

*There is gonna be a surge of slopjects and slopject-adjacent things this year *I need to figure out how much mental attention I want to give to slopjects, as opposed to, like, filing and sawing ancient Roman Swiss Army Knives in the garden medium.com/@bruces/anci...

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

JG Ballard kinda called it already, in 1973. This is the first *paragraph* of the introduction to CRASH.

the original Readymade. makes you think.

'Stone animal along the approach to the imperial mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty.' The religious system of China. 1892 archive.org/details/reli...

Thirty years ago today. The most beautiful, hopeful farewell.

Today's research into pioneering astronauts has led me to this: The Silver Snoopy award is a special honour awarded to NASA employees for outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success. The award consists of a sterling silver lapel pin, worn during a mission.

This is a photo of the surface of an asteroid It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox (1/2)

Today in 1964, Rod Serling’s “Carol for Another Christmas,” one of the most unusual versions of Charles Dickens’ classic story ever shown on television, was broadcast for the first and only time on ABC, the first in a series of programs fully underwritten by Xerox to support the United Nations.

Jean-Paul Jérôme, contemporary Canadian painter, designer and sculptor who was a co-founder of Les Plasticiens, a group of painters who founded the pictorial movement in Quebec in 1955. Les photophores chanteurs, 1976 #Jean-PaulJérôme #ContemporaryArt

Swimmers #13 — Emma Hartvig, 2017

This 1974 photo shows, with startling immediacy, a group of freshly-excavated 2,000 year-old Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an, China, with their original vibrant colours. Once exposed to air & sunlight during excavation, the colours started to disappear almost immediately www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

A Wake for Samuel Beckett with Harold Pinter (1990) 🖤 youtu.be/YBXgSKG84Zg?...

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

Happy 21st December evening everyone. May the Great Veiled Bear pass over you house tonight and not present you with one of his cursed Christmas cookies.

Thomas Wright. Plate XXI, Milky Way, from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe, 1750 "founded upon the laws of nature, and solving by mathematical principles the general phaenomena of the visible creation" archive.org/details/orig...

Recent Power Lines Drawings by me Two from Pearl Beach, Michigan, and two from Ypsilanti #136 (Ypsilanti, MI) #138 (Pearl Beach, MI) #139 (Pearl Beach, MI) #140 (Ypsilanti, MI) marcusjmerritt.com/power-lines-...

“What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.” [St. Augustine, Confessions]

Playing around with a close-up B&W edit of the best footage I have ever captured on this Earth. Hoping compression doesn't prevent y'all from seeing the incredible rain of debris. Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala (March 2023)

‘The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret’ fantastic new acquisition at the National Gallery in London. Absolutely worth it. Just look at that fella.

Amazing. Not an easy thing to describe to someone who's never experienced migraines but some of these images really resonate 🖤

Martin Parr (1952-2025) has passed away. He was the most recognizable name in contemporary photography, a former president of Magnum and an inspiration for millions. On this very sad occasion, I'm sharing with you some of his earlier, and a bit lesser known black&white work.

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3 Don’t stand on the outside looking in, stand on the outside looking further out 🖤🖤🖤

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The birth of our solar system - at last, closing up the penultimate page of this mammoth chapter exploring the origin of the universe in all its swirls of different sorts... It's been a long trip. And there is, to be sure, a lot going on on this page :) Onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2

just at the end of a snow squall you'll see for maybe ten seconds the weirdest and most beautiful light on earth. thats what you tell an old person when they ask you why you always have your phone

Chris Riddell @chrisriddell50 on #KeirStarmer #RachelReeves #Budget – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind