almost cried when looking at paintings of grasses

American Grasslands: Prairie, Pasture, Crop, and Lawn, series by Karen Kitchel

Jean Paul Selinger (1850-1909, American) ~ Comet, n/d

[Source: Christie's]

The Red Knight by AmiThompson_h

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Link to the Guide at Project Gutenberg can be found here

A Wikisource entry can be found here.

Mirrors can be found here, here, here, here and here.

Gosh it would be a shame if this got even MORE visibility.

Whoops my cursor slipped.

Really incredible day for birds and views yesterday. Strange ice formations on a log over the river, Tufted Titmice, Downy Woodpeckers, and American Robins feeding together along the bank, and late afternoon light gleaming off icy hilltops and painting them shades of bronze and pink. Not pictured: innumerable White-breasted Nuthatches and Black-capped Chickadees (too fast), a small flock of Mallards and the Bald Eagle that scared them off (too far away), and a pair of Common Mergansers (I only saw them as they were flying away because I was too busy looking at the ice lol).

Yellow-striped Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium vireovittatum), family Centrolenidae, Costa Rica

photographs by Diego Aviles

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Alpha News, our local fascist outlet that "leaked" Jonathan Ross's video of him murdering Renee Good, which also pushed George Floyd conspiracy theories, with an anchor married to loathsome fascist police union boss Bob Kroll (Liz Collin), has set up another doxx line, this time for ICE observers.

WE NEED THEM TO BE OVERWHELMED WITH USELESS INFORMATION.

Please help us! We are under occupation!

Their post about it:

This is something you can do 100% remotely that is VERY HELPFUL to stop observers from being intimidated out of doing this vital work. It is not an exaggeration to say spamming this line will save lives: the more observers we have, the fewer people ICE can abduct, abuse, murder, and send to concentration camps.

PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE.

Seula Yi (Korean, 1990), Too much caffeine, 2024. Watercolour and gouache on Arches, 16 1/10 × 12 1/2 in.

Roberto Ugalde (Mexican Artist)

"Happy Winter", 2025.

Oil on Canvas, 48 × 32 inches.

Private Collection.

it sucks that we have to do this all the time but here’s the gofundme page for the family of the woman who was murdered by ice(is) in minneapolis today.

She was a mother of a 6yo child whose father passed away in 2023. Renee was remarried to a woman - so, to put it bluntly, not only has a child been orphaned by both biological parents, but the possible ramifications of a same-sex stepparent keeping custody amidst all the scrutiny and awful, virulent rhetoric to come makes me nauseous just to think about. Not only will Renee's wife and child need support for therapy and other immediate financial impacts of such a traumatic loss, an ample legal fund may be needed as well. I hope I'm wrong. But in case I'm not, please consider giving as and how you're able.

Let this radicalize you, rather than lead you to despair.

Jamie Wyeth, The Thief, 1996, Oil on panel

Miho Ichise - "The Last Sunbathing of the Day" (2021)

someone please tell me the name of that one like postfurry artist who drew the emotionally resonant colored pencil drawings of anthro planes drowning in swimming pools and in hospital waiting rooms furry community come to my aid plssss

ok their name is sharkplane77. outsider art

It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.

He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.

Like, look at this stuff????

It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!

Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.

And then there's this one:

The Fantasy

For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.

The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.

But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.

Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.

This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.

"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.

"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.

"We often fantasized about Dick's joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles." - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.

There’s also Alexei Leonov, writer and artist and first person to conduct a spacewalk!

This is his art.

You can't forget this, the first art made in space.

March 1965, Alexei Leonov made this drawing only moments after narrowly surviving the very first space walk.

Whistleblower on Reddit rage-blogs about how the food delivery company he worked for as a developer is ripping customers AND drivers off.

Main post screenshotted here in case it gets yanked; the whole thread is worth a read.

Posted January 2026.

Old Year's Eve - Lara Cobden , 2021-22.

British , b. 1971 -

Oil and ink on gessoed panel , 30 x 25 cm.

ferdinand hodler, the dream of the shepherd