#Springstone

[artparks-sculpture]

A sculpture titled 'My Treasure (Carved Springstone African statue)' by sculptor Crispen Manyika. In a medium of Springstone.

[clairity-org]

Nicholas Mukomber Anwa and Son, Looking into the Wind, 2002, springstone, 7/6/23 #mnarboretum by Sharon Mollerus

[planetbeanie]

March 19

You share a birthday with Springston the Bear!

[helluvatimes]

Village Ladies And A Baobab

Village ladies seemingly discussing the girth of a Baobab or bottle tree. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

This was captured with the exposure biased darker by 2/3 stop which left the image originally a little dark. In raw conversion, highlights and shadows were brightened a tad and contrast was given a tweak to get this final image.

[bunny-kisser]

OMG AAA these are perfect, thank you!! 🥺💜

Reblog with a picture of your f/o and I'll assign them a Beanie Baby!

[theweirdcobrakaifan]

Okay Been thinking about a Bruce springston silverusso au where terry sings and dances like Bruce with the song dancing in the dark and Courtney cox the girl that Bruce brought on stage in the official video terry would do the same with Daniel like he can buy a concert to preform and I feel like Daniel would be so happy to recreate that scene

[lemons-and-art]

Daphnis Springston ref sheet! my flower enby!!

[sharpestlives]

i love my grandmothers dedication to saying things wrong. 50 years of insisting that bruce springsteen’s name is bruce springstone

[artparks-sculpture]

A sculpture titled 'Rainmaker (Abstract Carved Springstone statue)' by sculptor Crispen Manyika. In a medium of Springstone.

[goddamnwebcomics]

*Desert Fox

It’s a fantasy adventure webcomic by Matt Springston (AKA SageStrike2).

*Note: Because there are three (or technically two, as both share connections with the prequel story) versions of this comic, I’ll have to summarize each of them as clearly as possible.

Desert Fox Origins is a prequel story existing to explain events prior to the start of the pre-reboot and reboot of the comic (which the latter version quickly summarizes). It focuses on Des being kidnapped and experimented on by a scientist named Denkou, who wants to strip the boy’s magical talents from him to further the mad doctor’s dangerous experiments. Needless to say, he gets stopped by Des’ friends and releases one of the scientist’s experimented subjects, named Fulvus, in the process, who will probably become a problem in the future (she doesn’t).

It’s a pretty basic and vague start to the series, with less than stellar writing and below-average to mediocre writing to boot. The most I can say is that it at least does an okay job setting up the story prior to introducing the real main conflict.

The pre-reboot version of Desert Fox (which can be read here or on DeviantArt when you want access to all of the pages) takes place six months after the origin story, where Des and the gang are charged with scouting and getting information on a crisis with the wolves. The reason being that the guild hasn’t received an envoy from them for weeks, and since Eld’Eari (anthropomorphic animal people) like them aren’t comfortable speaking directly with humans, sending a group with an Eld’Eari of their own as a representative, like Des, could make the negotiations more peaceful. He also has to deal with having his magic suppressed due to him using his abilities irresponsibly too many times as a way to be closely monitored and controlled by the guild and the city council. A possibly terrible decision considering the mission the group will be going on, especially with some darker plots and characters happening in the background unnoticed. We also see a side story with Fulvus meeting and interacting with a troublesome but friendly girl named Dea, just hanging out and getting the tiger-fox girl acquainted with human civilization.

The writing and story are okay, while the art looks like this refined version of Thomas Fischbach’s TwoKinds art style from 2011–2014. Many of these ideas and characters are recycled for the reboot, with very minor differences slapped together.

In the reboot version of Desert Fox, it starts 52 years ago, when the humans and the Eld’Eari lived in relative peace together. It all changed when the humans decided to go to war with the Eld’Eari for some unexplained reason, and when the humans were backed into a corner by the Eld’Eari’s growing resistance, they decided to build a dangerous weapon to use on their animal enemies as a contingency plan known as the “Change Protocol”. 

It predictably goes wrong, as expected.

When the weapon blew up, it spread recycled radiation and magical energy across the land called “Change Energy”, which ended up poisoning and killing the Eld’Eari by the dozens while giving humans growing magical and mutated talents, which somehow ended their conflicts with each other. The humans even decided to make up for their transgression by promising to develop a cure for the Eld'Eari, which, while not being effective outside of basic treatment, caused the animal race to slowly come out of their borders and settle around human borders and its guild to the point of developing a community.

In the present, we meet Des, a young Eld’Eari fox kid who works for the human guild in Shyder City. He’s got some special powers, such as being the only Eld’Eari that’s immune to the effects of Change Energy, being the first of his kind to have a naturally grown talent, and having the ability to essentially cure any mental corruptions or insanities caused by side effects from failed experiments to make some Eld’Eari test subjects, such as one subject named Fulvus, immune to Change Energy.

Now it’s up to Des, his team, and the rest of the guild to find a permanent cure for the Eld’Eari, save any of the troubled test subjects affected by these failed experiments, stop any other evil machinations from a millennium ago that are happening in the background, and maybe figure out more information on Des’ abilities and how he’s connected to those sinister background plots happening around everything.

I won’t lie to you. The story is weirdly convoluted and annoyingly spackled together. As I said, it uses many characters, ideas, and parts of the origin story (summarized and shortened down) for its premise, but adds some noticeable differences. The art looks like a mixture of Chalo and Mastergodai’s art styles, the overarching conflict is more defined in the story than the pre-reboot ever could offer originally, and Fulvus gets more screen time and connection to the story compared to before. It does, however, suffer from similar tropes and problems you’ve most likely dealt with before: stock and sometimes mediocre to basic backgrounds, fanservice, that one medical professional with a questionable sense of responsibilities, occasional chibi visual gags, and comedy sometimes clashing with the tone in certain moments of the story. These issues aren’t as major, but they do lead to a pretty dull reading experience, personally.

You’ll probably find more to talk about in this comic than I ever could whenever you get to it.

Well, I certainly won’t make a post THIS long about it!

I think this is another flawed furry comic with some good ideas and a lot of bad ideas, half of those bad ideas having to do with comic’s presentation and other half having to do with the same goddamn “animals become another race for humans to worry about” premise. So it’s perfect for this blog. I’m probably gonna riff it in the order you suggested, with Origins -> Pre-Reboot -> Reboot.

[crissonandhind]

Exploring the ‘Fat Mommas and Babies’ Sculpture at Crisson & Hind Sculpture Gallery

The Crisson & Hind African Gallery stands as a gateway to the world of African sculpture, focusing on the masterful works of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. With a close connection to the Fine Artists within the Shona art movement, the gallery carefully selects sculptures from approximately 40 true masters out of the few hundred artists in the movement. Regular visits to Zimbabwe allow the gallery to acquire works directly from the artists, handpicking high-quality stones from mines and quarries. This meticulous process enables the gallery to offer exceptional sculptures at prices lower than those found in North America and Europe. The collection at the Crisson & Hind Sculpture Gallery showcases works carved from 12 indigenous Zimbabwean stones, including Verdite, Springstone, Butter Jade, and Leopard Stone.

[anyawinget]

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[helluvatimes]

In The Eye Of A Warrior

A Zimbabwean springstone sculpture in the Flower Dome. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

Spotted this warrior head sculpture among Aloe plants in the conservatory here. The original capture had looked brighter than this despite having been given a 2-stop underexposure. My copy of the Leica Digilux 3 had been having this metering issue for a while now. But this exposure issue could be easily fixed in post as the image was recorded in raw.

[driko]

Liked on YouTube: Bruce Springstone, Take Me Out to the Ball Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D3PqhHx5eM