mirrorbacks, china, tang dynasty c. early 6-900s a.d.
textures and colors of the bark of Methuselah the coast redwood
love when a character is a scientist and their speciality is science and they do science in a science lab. no specifics no clear goals no clue where their funding comes from. dont even worry about it. science.
armor for man and horse presumably made for baron pankraz vont freyberg (1508-1565) by wolfgang grosschedel
after the rain
Florence Welch, photographed by Alice Chérie Hansson
Arequipa, Peru by Diana Alvarado
Modernist star pendant by Henning Koppel for Georg Jensen, 1940s
Design 147, in sterling silver.
I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything