un pas de côté

May 25

World’s Largest Cave Passage

There’s a jungle inside Vietnam’s mammoth cavern. A skyscraper could fit too. Hang Son Doong, or “mountain river cave,” is in a remote part of central Vietnam. Hidden in rugged Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park near the border with Laos, the cave is part of a network of 150 or so caves, many still not surveyed, in the Annamite Mountains. You can read the full story of the cave explorers expedition here.

cinabre:

“Heaven, I’m in heaven…”
This is the last one, the beautiful and mysterious angel Islington.
…Oh yes, I’d love a glass of that wine. =)

(The tunic is supposed to be a fabric made of light or something, when you think about it, it’s really not easy to draw. -_-; )

Neverwhere characters ©Neil Gaiman

situology:

lostsplendor:

Arrow Collar: Illustrations by J.C Leyendecker, 1910s (via rompedas)

I want to dress like these folks.

If you do, post the pictures !

May 23

vaitranquillo:

Takemitsu Zamurai Manga by Issei Eifuku, Taiyou Matsumoto

“The Bamboo Samurai”

Always reblog Taiyou Matsumoto

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erikkwakkel:

Candle wax on a medieval page

Medieval evenings were as dark as ours. However, with no electricity and smaller windows, rooms - libraries - will generally have been dark places back then. This is why we frequently encounter candle wax on the pages of medieval books. Looking at such yellow blobs, like the one on this image, it’s not hard to imagine the medieval reader bent over his book, holding a candle. In this case to read a law text and scribble clarifying notes between the lines. A bit of wax to illuminate the law.

Pic (my own): Liverpool University, Sydney Jones Library, MS 4.20 (Italy, 13th century)

May 22

pythias:

malformalady:

A fox sleeps on a headstone in Cimetière Mont-Royal, Montreal, Quebec

La sieste du renard. Photo by Sam Mont Royal.

littlefroggies:

I was a very very irresponsible person and drew Steven Universe fanart and I am okay with that. I think this show is adorable.

rebeccasugar:

The Steven Universe pilot is online!

Here is a very old promo poster I did before the pilot was even complete!

I can not believe how much the show has grown and changed since this pilot; the show will look amazing, the people I am working with are amazing, wait up for the series you guys it’s gonna be something else!!!

And for those of us who aren’t in the US, the pilot is also on Youtube

erikamoen:

Today in my husband’s review of the Fleshlight, we introduce the Anal Sex Safety Snails.

I hope you enjoy.

Happy Birthday, Mary Anning!

trowelblazers:

“Painting of Mary Anning made after her death, at the Geological Society/NHMPL, based on a portrait from 1842”. Painted in 1847 by B.J. Donne. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Party like it’s 1799, because that’s the year this trowelblazing woman-the “greatest fossil hunter ever known”-was born.

Mary Anning came from a poor family of religious dissenters, which was partly the reason why she began to look for fossils-in the early 1800s, visitors to the Dorset coast loved to buy fossils as curiosities.

Not only did she discover the first specimens of what would later be recognized as Ichthyosaurus, but also a complete Plesiosaurus, along with specimens of Pterodactylus and Squaloraja (a fossil fish).

We could go on listing her discoveries all day-she also was the first to realize that ink could be made from belemnite fossils and that coprolites (then called bezoar stones) were actually fossilized feces.

Dickens wrote about her in 1865. Though we disagree with his assertion that she was a dull child until being hit by lightening at a young age, thus somewhat dismissing her innate intelligence (and in fact, she would have been only 1 year old with the date he provides) but we liked that he also had this to say:

“The inscription under her memorial window commemorates her “usefulness in furthering the science of geology” (it was not a science when she began to discover, and so helped make it one), “and also her benevolence of heart and integrity of life” (Dickens 1865: 63).

So thank you Mary Anning, for all you did for geology, paleontology, and science. We raise our trowels to you!

Written and posted by Suzie

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