#gayford

[softersynths]

doodles of @gayford’s postcanon shifty design “theseus” bc i like it lots. also him meeting my shifty bc lol

[ghoulierstudio]

[pohutukawa22]

Jacinda & Clark finally wed. Most of the NZ press knew the location but chose not to release the info. Even so about 10 anti-vaxxers turned up but didn't create a disturbance.

[abyssalzones]

haven't gotten to draw a lot since I started college but I'm very endeared by @gayford's design for a "reformed" shapeshifter and the idea of it being like tate's weird alien stepbrother. bait and tackle shop's worst employee

[korovaoverlook]

be nicer to your alien son, stanford

many thanks to @gayford and @softersynths for inspiring me with their own Shifty AUs

individual comics below the cut

[todropscience]

Despite being the world's largest fish, whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are still poorly understood, and in spite of researchers though these big fishes were pasive feeders, filtering they food from the water, now researchers have found evidence of whale sharks engaging in bottom-feeding behaviours.

This event took place near La Paz, in southern Baja California, Mexico, a well know place as a whale shark hotspot, and was recorder by local guides, providing crusial information on this unknown behaviour never seen in whale sharks. Despite is still unknown what whale sharks might eat in this seafloor foraging, it is likely they feed on small benthic crustaceans.

video can seen here

Reference: Whitehead & Gayford (2023). First record of bottom‐feeding behaviour in the whale shark (Rhincodon typus). Journal of Fish Biology.

[berzerkjerk]

Testing how will be Gayford Radford look with different pallete or style

Honestly, it's meh okay let it be

[scarecrowbutch]

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just a butch dyke who loves his friends! :-]

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[dk-thrive]

The only things that matter in life are food and love, in that order, and also our little dog Ruby. I truly believe this, and for me, the basis of art is love. I love life.

— David Hockney, "Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy" by Martin Gayford. (Thames & Hudson, March 23, 2021) (via Wait - What?)

[troythecatfish]

[VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE TO ALL THIS AT THE BOTTOM]

Sometimes I just think about how petty the conversation around theropods can get in a way that no other group of dinosaurs seems to spark. And this toxic obsession with size is starting to bleed over into actual scientific conversation, which I believe is more important than any of my ramblings. Skip past all of this and go to the end if you must, I want more people to read at least the excerpt of the paper and be aware of this growing issue in paleontology.

Sauropods? Stegosaurs? Hadrosaurs? Pachycephalosaurs? No other dinosaur group seems to spark as much vitriol and internet slap fighting as the theropods do. Specifically the “mega”theropods as they’ve been dubbed more recently in the online paleo-sphere. T. rex, Spinosaurus, Giganotosaurus, you know the type. Big bodies with big heads with big jaws that certain sects of paleo fans get a bit too excited arguing over.

Of course most of these arguments center around the tyrant lizard king itself. A beast that I don’t need to bother doing this introduction for because you all know it’s coming: Tyrannosaurus rex. I know there’s a good too many people who treat T. rex as this unstoppable monster, God’s chosen creature among the other lowly fleshbags of the Mesozoic. Every new paper that comes out about Tyrannosaurus seems to just embolden them even more, especially now with that paper a few months back suggesting T. rex even larger than those preserved in the fossil record likely existed.

I’ve always found the rat race surrounding the size of T. rex and other “mega”theropods to be inherently a bit comical. If they want insanely large dinosaurs so badly I would point them towards sauropods, but those didn’t actively kill other dinosaurs so who cares amirite? Every other group of dinosaur, every other animal ever to evolve, only exists for the sake of power scaling their beloved giant theropod of choice.

But my question is doesn’t all this get a bit boring after a while? Acting like “mega”theropods were these untouchable gods and every other animal in the history of evolution is just a joke by comparison, it’s a frankly juvenile way of seeing things.

Triceratops? Only exists to have its head ripped off by and be a cool opponent for T. rex. Diplodocus? Only there so a gang of Saurophaganax can rip it apart. Rebbachisaurus? Tf even is that? The Kem Kem Beds were just the thunder dome for all those huge African theropods and crocodiles to beat each other up.

Point is I find the constant discussion and resulting arguments over theropod size and strength to be repetitive and boring. These “mega”theropods were no doubt powerful and fascinating animals, but they weren’t kaiju. They don’t need to be unkillable gods to still be worth appreciation and respect. Imagining them as the animals they were is much more stimulating for me than the simple who was the biggest back-and-forths.

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(edit) this is a massive update in this particular subject, please, if not the rest of my ramblings at least read this:

I’d like to end with an excerpt from a scientific paper published just today by Joel H. Gayford et al. concerning size estimations of extinct animals

“Furthermore, one must be aware of backlash from the ever-growing fan communities of prehistoric organisms (such as Dunkleosteus, O. megalodon and theropod dinosaurs) on the internet, who may feel strongly about the perceived appearance of their favourite organisms. None of these concerns are hypotheticals, and all have happened at one point or another to many palaeobiologists who study well-known, iconic fossil taxa, including some of those mentioned in the present study. All studies should be judged on their scientific merit through debate and discourse, through which progressive improvements to our understanding of extinct animals can be gained.”

You can read the paper for yourself, as it’s publicly available for free: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...

This is more than simple online slap fighting. It’s affecting real paleontology. If actual scientists are now wanting to avoid certain species because of these types of paleo fans I don’t even know what to say. The paper goes in-depth about the problems, both scientifically and socially, that arise when determining the mass of an extinct animal. And I couldn’t agree more. I hate to beg for shares but if you can, and want to help push back against the awesomebros choking out real paleontologists then please consider it!

[cbc-bb]

Diego Velásquez. Las Meninas, 1656.

“Originally, Velásquez made the picture to hang in the King’s private apartments. When the monarch looked at it, he saw not only his royal painter, palette and brush in hand, contemplating him, but also an image of himself in a mirror looking back. For Philip IV it was therefore a dizzyingly complex set of variations on the questions ‘What is reality and what is appearance?’ and ‘What are we looking at?’

“So in one sense, Las Meninas was a picture about a mirror, but in another way less often noted, it was made by mirrors.”

— Martin Gayford, in conversation with David Hockney (from their book “A History of Pictures”)

[ghoulierstudio]

From the Yellow House by Martin Gayford. Possibly a neurodivergent bias. I’ve always had sensory associations - synesthesia

[ecle-c-tic]

WELLINGTON PARANORMAL!!!! THOUGHTS???

its sooooooo funny im actually dying!!! I'm on the one w/ the old time (old timy, old timey?) cop! I love all of the one liners and in true JCU the posters are killing me. Also Clarke Gayford??? AND KYLE MINOGUE HAHA

[gumbootrambles]

ngl i thought it was gonna be the og vine but nope. its just clarke gayford.