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“Culture”-ally stimulating art. Even mold can be beautiful… 

by microbiologist Antoine Bridier-Nahmias

via Magical Contamination 

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Yasujiro Ozu

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Matazo Kayama - Frozen Forest

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ph.by kenji toma for glint vol.5 .

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Kaernefeltia californica

Costal thornbush lichen

I love an adorable lichen, but I also love a lichen that strikes fear into the hearts' of men like K. californica. This fruticose lichen is an eensy 2 cm tall at most, with narrow, spikey lobes and a ridged and bumpy surface. It is gray-brown or dark olive-brown in color, paler toward the center, and often coated with pale pruina. It has large, black apothecia with a spiky margin and a concave or flat disc. K. californica grows on wood near the Pacific coast in North America. Small but fierce. Tiny but mighty. A real wonder and an absolute delight.

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The Merry Cemetery, Amrita Sher-Gil, 1939

Oil on canvas 100.5 x 75 cm (39.57 x 29.53 in.) National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India

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Queer Profile: Amrita Sher-Gil Amrita was a popular Indian painter sometimes referred to as “India’s Frida Khalo.” Born in Budapest, Hungary on the 30th of January 1913, she was raised by her Punjabi Sikh father and Hungarian-Jewish mother. This parentage offered an identity struggle throughout the artist’s life. Caught between Western and Indian origins, Amrita donned her sari on some days; but on other occasions, she leaned more towards Western fashion. At the age of sixteen, Amrita moved to Paris to study at the École de Beaux-Arts. It was here that her father reported she had multiple affairs with both men and women. Her explanation was, “How can one feel the beauty of a form, the intensity or the subtlety of a color, the quality of a line, unless she is a sensualist of the eyes?” Once she and her family moved to India, her affairs with women grew to be well-known. Unfortunately, many of her intimate letters were burned by her usually liberal parents because of this. Her paintings, not unlike those of Khalo, challenged the views of the public on the sexuality and expectations of women. Her paintings of daily life in India are some of the most popular and realistic. Amrita Sher-Gil died at the age of 28 after hemorrhaging from an unsuccessful abortion, leaving her legacy behind in an abundance of paintings.

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Freddie Mercury eating soup in his bed with his cats, 80s by Vrty33

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Micro-CT scan of a two-headed carpet python

The Two-Headed Calf, Laura Gilpin

Bartolomeo Bimbi, Two-Headed Lamb, 1721

A calf with three eyes born in North Wales

Stillborn fawn found by Kevin Serres and taxidermied by Wild Images in Motion

The Kitten, Mary Oliver

Healthy lamb born with two heads in China

Terracotta pair of horses, ca. 750–600 B.C

The skull of a two headed calf

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Umbilicaria aprina

Tentacled rocktripe lichen

What do you think of when you think of tentacles? You know what? No, don't answer that. For the love of god. But now when you think of them, I hope you think of U. aprina. Along with cephalopods and eldritch horrors and . . . whatever else they might bring to mind.

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from this ask polly

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Mist Hotan Prefecture​​​​​​​

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The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914-1923

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long-term nuclear waste warning messages + rich people's indoor swimming pools

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