#first exhibition in the museum

[ash-and-starlight]

one day, in a thousand years

[guccigarantine]

if you have lmk what was being shown

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #Woodensday:

Kwakwaka'wakw artist Baleen Whale Mask, 19th century Alert Bay, Cormorant Island, British Columbia, Canada Cedarwood, pigment, hide, cotton cord, metal nails From Brooklyn Museum’s “Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas” exhibition

[arttsuka]

Augustus: *throwing a tantrum* "DAD WHY AM I LIKE THIS"

Octavius: "Well, I didn't sculpt you but it seems they ran out of marble."

Augustus: "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH IT STINKS HAVING NO HANDS"

Jed: "Or legs."

Octavius: "That's not helping."

Omg you can't just say that Jed!

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

i did Not cry in the museum but it was a very near thing

[steelbluehome]

Pics from Bucky Barnes in the Smithsonian Museum Fan Theory on Mediachomp

You should go there and read the fan theory, it makes sense to me.

[anonymous-dentist]

It’s been almost two years since the last time I actually got covid, but I remember it like it was yesterday for one VERY good reason:

I had a fever of 103, but I couldn’t go to a hospital because I couldn’t (and can’t) afford to and because I had work that afternoon. So I stayed in my dorm room and watched an innocent little Karmaland stream.

Titi’s Custody Trial

So I’m sitting there, fever 103, sweating and coughing and dying, and the cutest little guy fucking NUKES HIMSELF to save his family

I’m in awe. I’m immensely distressed. I’m convinced I’m hallucinating

Half an hour later, I watched the c!Wilbur dsmp finale stream and was so angry over how shit it was that I literally passed out from it (and from the fever)

At least this time I don’t have to deal with that back-to-back bullshit

[bluejay-07]

Something that just hit me about The Mars House is that if these people are government officials, they’re definitely going to be historical figures someday. And I just. Even the vague idea of it makes me laugh so hard, because you absolutely know that two hundred years down the line, people are going over River’s journals and posting everything they ever wrote about January on Mars Tumblr. There are probably stacks of memes about Real Aubrey because let’s be real why wouldn’t there be. Someone drops a thesis proposing that River took Aubrey’s place after they murdered Max and the whole field is in an uproar for at least a month. Does anyone else see the vision.

[moongazeonastarfillednight]

"We were the first that ever burst into the silent sea" - John Macallan Swan (1897)

Exposed at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal

Title is a verse from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

[imtryingandtired]

Not really a NATM episode, but I’m just imagining Kah and the Smithsonian trio attempting to bring someone new into their group while trying for world domination once again and ends up being a much worse person than them? But also keep up a much nicer persona around everyone else

Bonus points if the four turn on them to defeat them and they lose all of their original composure.

[tacagen]

eobard thawne is probably extra normal about the fact both him and iris have written barry's biographies bc i know he was really normal even about iris' one since oh you know. his very first appearance as a fan.

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

alright i have a mild dilemna that i need advice on

on my course we have to post these weekly self-reflection things responding to the themes of the week's class and some questions about it. i posted last week's and yesterday the course convenor replied to it in a way that implies i was wrong (in my SELF reflection) and just generally misunderstands my point/takes it in bad faith. i've shown these posts to others on the course and they agree that my original post adressed the things her reply asks about and that she has misinterpreted me, in quite a "cheeky" way

my issue now is: do i reply and try to explain myself better? or is it better to just let it go?

i don't want to dig myself in deeper if she's really opposed to my viewpoint, but at the same time i do feel like i answered the questions thoroughly in the first place and the things she's accusing me of aren't fair

[jonnysinsectcatalogue]

Royal Ontario Museum - Insect Exhibits 2

Good news, I managed to squeeze in one more insect visit to the Royal Ontario Museum before the end of the year! As such the living denizens of the natural history section will be showcased one more time before 2024 is upon us. Before that, I'd like to take a moment to share new pictures from the insect displays within the natural history section. Compared to the pictures from 2019, these are a quantum leap forward in terms of clarity and use of lighting. The Peanut Bug - Fulgora laternaria (Picture 1) has always been a favorite of mine, so I always take the opportunity to go and visit it and marvel at the ridiculousness of the size of that head protuberance. Though a bit oversized, such a head fixature has an important function: knocking it against a tree is its mating call. If the attention they draw is unwelcome, they can startle their voyeurs with the eyeball spots on its wings. These markings are more prominent in live specimens; this pinned specimen's colors have faded away over time. You can even compare the images from 2019 and you'll see a difference in color saturation. Otherwise, when this Hemipteran is at rest, it looks similar to a helmeted Cicada with more opaque wings. In terms of relations however, the Peanut Bug is more closely related to the Spotted Lanternfly of Asia, as they are both part of the family Fulgoridae.

I'm also particularly fond of the texture of the Shining Leaf Beetle's (Picture 3 - Chrysophora chrysochlora) ornate emerald shell, and the tropical colors of the Weevils on display. Especially the blue Eupholus specimens (Picture 9 - right side specimens). Finally, I also noticed a new section (to me) in the animal gallery featuring Butterflies of the tropics and I'm still amazed at how large they are. Many of these iridescent, vibrantly-colored specimens have wingspan sizes that can be as large as a hand! They are more appropriately known as Birdwing Butterflies and they are all giants compared to the Butterflies that grow in the temperate climate of Toronto! The specimens focused on here are the Green Goliath Birdwing (Ornithoptera goliath - Pictures 2, 5 and 6), the black-and-white female Priam's birdwing (Ornithoptera priamus - Picture 8), the male Palawan Birdwing (Trogonoptera trojana - Picture 10 top), Wallace's Golden Birdwing (Ornithoptera croesus - Picture 10 middle) and the female Paradise Birdwing (Ornithoptera paradisea - Picture 10 bottom), but there are many more in the background. To glimpse these in person is wonderful, but seeing them flying around in their tropical environments would be a magical experience!

Pictures were taken on December 19, 2023 with a Google Pixel 4. Please come and see the bugs if you can, both the living insect specimens and the many displays. You may go to this link and view a post from earlier: ROM - Insect Exhibits 1.

Since these insect collections belong to the ROM, I’ve marked them with the Mantis icon. As well, Happy first day of Winter (tomorrow)!

[arthistoryanimalia]

#MonochromeMonday + #OwlishMonday:

Lukta Qiatsuk (Inuit, 1928-2004)

Owl, 1959

Stonecut on paper

photographed at Brooklyn Museum

“[This work] belongs to the first official catalogued collection released by Kinngait's West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in 1959, shortly after the introduction of printmaking to the Canadian Arctic two years prior. Many early Kinngait graphic artists adapted their skills as stone carvers to engrave stone matrices used for printmaking. Their work often illustrates the natural world, such as…Lukta Qiatsuk's playful image of an owl taking flight.”

[arttsuka]

Octavius and Jed but merman AU. Maybe they're tiny mermen who live inside an aquarium 😂

How did they end up in there?

[guccigarantine]

maybe it’s just because I am someone who regularly cries in art museums but I will never understand people who just walk up to a very old and very famous paintings and take a picture of it and move on like if you just wanted a picture of it on your phone you could have looked it up online dude you have the opportunity to see the actual thing in its physicality right in front of you and you’re not even going to look at it for more than a second? this painting is from another time and place entirely and has survived longer than any of us will ever live and you won’t even spend any amount of time with it? you’re not even going to read the title and caption? you came to a museum specifically to look at art why aren’t you looking at the art?