source: https://www.tumblr.com/wilwheat...

'This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. 9.5 light-years tall and 7000 light-years distant from Earth, this dusty sculpture is refreshed with the use of new processing techniques. The new Hubble image is part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations.'

https://esahubble.org/news...

Happy birthday to my boys, Pedro (left) and Papi. They're two today, and they are my favorite people.

Blackfoot Chief Ako Mic Mi's (translated as Feathers) knowledge came from an oral tradition and he had no handheld map to share with Hudson Bay trader Peter Chesterfield about the landscape. Feathers drew a balanced and centered diagram of lines on the ground and then communicated the details to Fidler using the spoken Blackfoot language and Plains Sign. Fidler copied the lines of the diagram into his journal and then added demographic and geographic footnotes related to him through Feathers’s oral communication.

The final copy of Feathers’s map describes a landscape of over 200,000 square miles and stands out as being the most expansive oral account of a geographic region ever recorded on the continent. Stretching from Oregon to North Dakota, and from Alberta to central Wyoming, the map identifies 14 major tributaries of the Missouri River, from the Milk River in the north to the Bighorn River in the south, and includes the location of prominent island mountain ranges interspersed between the rivers.

https://www.distinctlymontana.com/brillian...

My neighbors got a new van. I tentatively approve. Apparently there are only, like, 2000 in the US and one's in Tacoma. There's a weird window-in-a-window like a subaru SVX or a fancy 90s tv and the van is overall an objectively correct shape.

Aesthetically, I think it goes well with my other neighbor's 70s Firebird.

By the time I reached the beach it was too bright to see more than the moon and Venus, but still, was a lovely sunrise.

2BH, Broken Hill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

Yes, it's a radio station shaped like a radio. I'm curious why they went with Philips. Is this actually modeled after a particular radio?

Edit: Yes! Very roughly, the 1931/32 Philips 930A 'Chapel', or something similar, which would match up with 2BH's 1934 on-air date: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r...

However, I'm seeing some stuff that suggests the current building was custom built as late as 1990.

Source: https://pixelfed.social/p...

Milton Greene, Look Magazine 1953

source: https://www.tumblr.com/thecinam...

A pair of gnomes to replace the stolen


Previously https://mltshp.com/p/1QZ9U

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source: https://loosethreadstitchery.tumblr.com/post...

A few close-ups at the source

via https://theonion.com/2-year-o...

Ray Gun, which is unionized
https://www.raygunsite.com/pages...
...and is pretty up-front about their politics
https://www.raygunsite.com/collecti...

They do custom printed die-cut stickers and will host a webstore
https://www.raygunsite.com/pages...
No idea about terms and rates, although they do say they will do low-volume runs and most items are print on demand. Their in-house stickers retail at $4/ea. One of the local orgs here uses Ray Gun for their tees which is how I happened across this.

I think this is my favorite SNL skit of all time.

Inspired by m3moellering's post on the building: https://mltshp.com/p/1QZEL

Originally built as the Parisiana Orfeum, architect Béla Lajta, art deco cherub statues by Géza Maróti.

The Transformers franchise has gone through periods of Cybertron design being heavily influenced by Art Deco, explaining why there's a distinct Transformers vibe to the statues.

https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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Source: https://art.nouveau.world/uj-szinh...