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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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sleepnoises

i want to do a painting of a tiger taking a bath to put in a bathroom (bathroom-themed bathroom) and to this end i made a little maquette out of clay and i suspect this will scope creep into having both a painting and sculpture of a tiger or perhaps only a sculpture of a tiger. if i do both should they be displayed together or separately

sleepnoises

unpainted clay greenware sculpture of a tiger in a bathtub. it seems to be chillin outALT

Tiger maquette by the way 🐅

sleepnoises

Working on cutting out a large piece of wood to do the painting on, which is a constraint that will either be really fun or really annoying. Maybe both

Tiger maquette with leaves behind itALT
Colored pencil drawing of tiger in bathtub with leavesALT
Piece of wood cut out to about the shape of the drawingALT
backside of piece of wood showing it's a piece of thin plywood glued to thicker boards around the edgeALT
sleepnoises

Chunk of wood painted yellow with tiger tub sketch on itALT
Piece of wood with cut up colored pencil sketch lying on itALT
Digital painting of tub tiger next to the photo of the sculpture and leaves already posted in this threadALT

Wood primed and underpainted and sketch transferred mostly by cutting it out in different chunks and tracing around them. Stripes to be determined. Nobody let me work on this again for at least two weeks

sleepnoises

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The finished Ms. Tigers

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probably my favorite thing about pluribus is making a character out of a virus. all a virus does is make more of itself, that’s the only “prerogative” it has. a virus operates like machinery in that way, and I really like how much the choreography in the show makes that really visually clear. you never see people moving like that naturally (how many takes was that???). a virus doesn’t have motivation, it’s just that its function is to make more of itself. so, insert that function into a fuckton of human beings… does it start to look like kindness, just because they totally disengage from the world? they don’t set animals loose out of compassion, it’s just that for whatever reason they can’t physically hurt living things–maybe biological imperative, so they don’t accidentally destroy another potential host?–and their energy is best spent on the primary task. Domestic animals that run off and are essentially helpless on their own aren’t their problem. I think it’s fun because there have been a lot of misreads of the show of being like wow communist utopia when it’s like. no. it’s. a virus? it’s doing what a virus does, it’s just that it has an insane amalgam of people to operate through. it’s fun for me especially because I have always loved thinking about viruses that alter animal behavior, and what would it look like for that to work the same way in humans? Like toxoplasmosis, if there was a notable impact, how would we justify our own behavior to ourselves? and now pluribus :)

all the other stuff to love about the show as well of course but I am having suuuuch a good time considering spec bio even though that's not even a primary aspect of the show lol why can't it lie? a virus can disguise itself but can't really lie. zosia can choose not to answer questions but they can't lie biologically though like... what is that impact on people does the virus have the same effect on the planet it came from? is terminal honesty a universal symptom? I also do appreciate that they took the time in the first episode to be like yep they are trying to culture it in mammals and oopsie rat bi totally feasible way for lab leaks to happen anyway. atom bomb are other animals eg rat mostly asymptomatic or is there a rat hive mind. vince I have questions pluribus
l3irdl3rain
l3irdl3rain

Guys can we please stop with the whole “frog-pig hybrid” when talking about Muppets Christmas Carol. Tiny Tim isn’t a frog-pig hybrid. The muppets are putting on a theatre production of Christmas Carol and Tiny Tim is being played by Kermit’s nephew Robin, who is a frog. Yes, for realism they could have hired a frog-pig hybrid. But they didn’t and that’s okay because Robin did amazing in his role.

l3irdl3rain

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You’re blocked and I reported you to the FBI for this awful, hateful take btw. Robin has worked hard and deserved every role he’s gotten.

bunjywunjy
echinoderm-of-the-day

Whilst this may appear to be some sort of art work composed solely of frisbees, it is in fact today’s echinoderm - Dendraster excentricus, commonly known as the eccentric sand dollar or the sea cake.

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Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145839714

bogleech

Its just. So fucking wonderful that an animal can just be a hairy disk. I've known all about them all my life and they just don't ever get boring. I saw them alive in person for the first time just in august at monterey bay.

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And that hairy disk is more a cousin to us backbone havers than the vast majority of animal life. Squids and insects and various worms have eyes and brains and limbs like we would recognize but they are all more distant to us than the little faceless crunchy biscuit that sits in the sand on its side and eats seawater.

over the summer I was swimming in the sound & exploring an eel grass area & there were a bunch of crabs and then just. piles of sand dollars. stack upon stacks of these weird hairy echinoderms never seen so many before it was awesome
bunjywunjy
sapphic-adjunction-deactivated2

Every time I see a duck I think to myself that I want to pick up that duck. There is a sort of quality of the duck that makes it feel like the act of picking up the duck would somehow be analogous to those strange videos where people use knives to cleanly cut through multilayered cakes. There would be a sort of accumulative act even without taking permanent possession of the duck. It would rather be more like pulling the lever on some ancient machine which makes a counter increase by one. The duck is the lever. I hope my meaning is clear to you all?

argumate

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the duck was designed with affordances that suggest picking it up

a duck that is tolerant of being grasped results in a grabbing experience much like pulling a lever lever of lift duck object designed to be picked up football shaped but do not throw it.