#collectable plates

[shiftythrifting]

At goodwill in SF. I absolutely took it home.

[alisonzai]

[vintagehomecollection]

Country Kitchens, 1991

[aristoteliancomplacency]

I have died and am dead.

[littler0b1n]

Emmet is willing to do anything to find his brother, and some things start to seem a bit more flexible than they seemed to be before… who cares if a few plates go missing?

[sun-e-chips]

Waterpark au Sun and Moon now in color!!!

I still need to finish their ref sheets for art-fight but I’m so so happy to finally have them colored!

Moon’s platings are colored and textured to mimic wood grains, over that he is “painted” with varying tones of blues and teals.

Sun’s platings resemble painted Aztec stone with vibrant cool and warm colors, some of the “stone” remains bare.

Up close, guests can see that both animatronics designs have intentional weathering to really sell their imagined materials.

[fuckyeahcoelacanths]

Today in coelacanth collecting!

I've just picked up this amazing full-sized plate created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the coelacanth!

It's from the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, named after J.L.B. Smith, who was the ichthyologist that identified Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer's mysterious fish as a coelacanth. The JLB Smith Institute is now the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, and has the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme Marine Platform, a collection of equipment and boats to help scientists study coelacanths.

This is much bigger than my Wedgwood coelacanth plate, but since it was under £10 from eBay, I am not complaining.

Just look at that little face!

And is this a coelacanth coat of arms? Amazing!

[thinkingimages]

plate B2312 (1888) showing Orion's belt and the horsehead nebula. Harvard College Observatory's Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection 

[shiftythrifting]

what is this dog plate even for

[redbean-nom]

some designs for tusken era boba :)

unarmored/pre krayt hunt armored/post krayt hunt

alternative lighting style and flat colors

[thorough-witness-enjoyer]

I actually think we were WAY too nice to the Witness in Excision. As someone who has lost so much to the effects of its ideology, I think we should of fed it Popeyes‘ biscuits with peanut butter and heated Hawaiian Punch through a small coffee stirrer for all of eternity.

[aristoteliancomplacency]

I present to you the work of another painter of fish plates. Y’know how you use ‘scare quotes’ for various purposes, including indicating that you’re not actually sure about The Thing?

Well, this guy was so bad at whatever he was painting that we call him…

The ‘tadpole’ painter:

Here’s another example:

This one was sold as part of the Graham Geddes collection at Bonham’s auction house in 2008 for £2,040.

They describe it as ‘three fish including a wrasse with dorsal spines, an angler-fish, the rounded body with multiple black dots, two large round eyes with pupils, an open mouth with teeth bared, and a ray with pointed face, the body with multiple black dots’.

Which like… bold fucking move missing out the fact that they have legs. Though I can’t say I envy whoever had to write the description.

[cinamun]

Day 23 | Church Fashion

#BHMCASChallenge

[changewingwentz]

ii-dle that got carried away my hypothesis is that he’ll look stunning in a 1920’s dress !

[toytheatre]

Three stunning bottles from Rothenstein's Déjà Vu Collection: David and Venus, the original Déjà Vu (specially gold-plated), and Déjà Vu Rodin

[flowery-king]

I'm enjoying the balls gate game