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Part of the "Flow" series
I just like the paintings by artist Frankie Ip:
“Painting is like playing music or writing a poem. It is the way I express my concept of beauty, my passion and feeling, as well as my view of the world. I choose painting because I love the vibrant colours; I like to experiment with the flexibilities of form and design, while enjoying the absence of boundaries in the creative process.” — Frankie Ip
Welland-Crowland-War-Memorial-2006-08-pic4, originally uploaded by monado.
This large outdoor monument was designed by Elizabeth Wynn Wood and executed in white granite. It was dedicated in 1939.
These beautiful blankets are vintage hand-woven, traditional wedding blankets from Morocco.
All blankets were made in homes and are thought to be instilled with “baraka.” Baraka is a positive power with many meanings in Morocco, and is a source of creative inspiration. In the case of carpets and weavings, the religious faith of the weaver and her belief in the supernatural are inextricably connected with the objects she produces. The loom itself remains the ultimate symbol of magical protection. It is looked upon as a living thing and is treated as such. If the weaver takes care in remembering the number and combination of threads to produce a design, the finished textile will be imbued with talismanic power and contain baraka, acting as a “power shield” against the evil eye.
Most cats don’t react to pictures of cats. Usually. The image isn’t real enough for them, lacking three dimensions, smell, movement, or something else. But the cat in this video reacts to its portrait with caution and curiosity.
This might not be unique to animals. If people aren’t raised with pictures, they might not recognize them. I once read that some forest people in Africa did not recognize pictures of elephants because they don’t smell like elephants. But I don’t know if that is true.
This is cute – and colorful!
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Who would have thought that there’s a Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists? I can see something like this gracing the mantelpiece of a dedicated member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (motto: Re-living the Middle Ages—the fun parts).
This is neat: a conception by two artists of what Calvin, of Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes, and his sparring partner Susie, might look like as young adults. Obviously, their spirit of adventure is intact!
Calvin, Hobbes and Susie by ~sora1589 on deviantART
. Nami86 did the line art and sora1589 colored it and supplied the background.
A big hat tip to Mike Mussington, who found it.
The Tall and Short of It has a “Decorating tip: Pottery Barn on the cheap,” with pictures.
Stencil graffiti in Truro., originally uploaded by john durrant.
This graffito done by stencil and spray paint has the look of a virus or a space station.
Darwin Window, originally uploaded by shefightslikeagirl.
I’d never heard of this church, but apparently the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S., is a flower of church liberalization from the late 1800s. It has gone non-denominational. The secular windows of Plato, Da Vinci, Darwin, et. al., were installed in 1924.
