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John F. Herring, Jr.

(Circa 1820 - 1907)

At the Watering Hole

Oil on canvas

16 inch diameter

Signed and dated 1852

https://rehs.com/John_F_Herring_Jr_At_the_Watering_Hole.html

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A group with links to Iran has been conducting watering-hole attacks against Israeli transportation, logistics, and technology sectors over the last two years, an investigation has uncovered. According to research by CrowdStrike released today, the cyber-espionage attacks were conducted by a state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) named “Imperial Kitten” (aka Yellow Liderc,…

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FLAMINGOS IN THE SOUTH BRONX?

PIC INFO: Spotlight on the pink neon flamingo fixture at Bar 47, Bruckner Blvd. in the South Bronx, NYC. 📸: Erik Fuller, 2021.

Happy Friday, people! Who's got the drinks?

Source: https://47bruckner.com.

I CANNOT EVEN with this GORGEOUS LADY!!! 😍😍😍 @moorephinadripp @schmittysweho our NEW #wateringhole We ❤️ it!! @whiskyallen #drag #dragqueen #moorephinadripp #dragperformer #dragisnotacrime #model #modeling #lgbtq🌈 #loveislove Make Up by @glenalen 😘🙏🏽🥰 (at West Hollywood, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpqIMl7vzDq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Notopia: Waterhole Times with Co-operative and Regular Drinkers books, reproduction, rice glue, scissors, knife and time 660 x 552 x 18 mm inc. frame #notopia #tomjohnsonart #appropriation #worksonpaper #framed #theframeisntreal #collageart #photocopies #reproduction #coati #buffalo #kodama #korok #oak #yellowhammer #smallbirds #hornbeam #waterhole #wateringhole #collage #greyhounds #riders #aloof #oldpainting #artonpaper #thisisaphysicalobject https://www.instagram.com/p/CorXZu3IkHB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#weaverant #wateringhole https://www.instagram.com/p/CH4Wyj8pNUI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

初トトト 美味しかった トトト→Beer Engine→Watering Hole #中野 #トトト #DQNも行きたかった #高円寺 #ハンドポンプ #リアルエール #代々木 #wateringhole (トトト) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiokMwNJmJB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Baguio City (Day 2) - Ili Likha Artists' Wateringhole

i'm really feeling the whole 'vampires are predators who do predator things' and also, specifically, 'vampires are ambush predators', which, i particularly enjoy.

there are risks involved in both pursuit predation and ambush predation. a pursuit predator is going to burn a LOT of energy moving about, actively seeking out prey to hunt. you might just run yourself to death. ambush predators wait from a vantage point until prey approaches, which is equally risky in that there's a chance prey simply will not come.

vampires are sitting there at tables in nightclubs, watching, waiting until someone takes an interest, just as a lion sits in the long grasses at the edge of the wateringhole, waiting for one little antelope to split off from the group a little too much. it pays for them to blend in, to be quiet, to be unseen, unperceived, as they move through the world.

and also it means they probably spend most of their time laying about to preserve energy. they can go fast and they can go EXTREMELY hard but they don't really have the interest or stamina to go very long. that's not what they're meant for. it's not what the strategy is. the strategy is blend in, pounce and kill, and then luxuriate in your delicious satiation until it's time to be on the lookout for prey again.

📍 Ili-Likha Artists' Wateringhole

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DND success!

Hey guys! For those of who who follow @ask-dcf​ , y’all may have heard that I was doing a gaming session, and well, it was a success on both ends!

I’ve been meaning to try a DnD session for some time, but I do have problems with focusing entirely due to lack of visuals or auditory things, so as an autistic person it can be hard to concentrate fully. But my friend managed to help out with it by adding the appropriate musics and visuals per tavern!

We were playing the Twisted Taverns as a means of a chill session to show the ropes as it were, for the first session, the Wizards Wateringhole, gave me a chance to flesh out my first character: Laxar the Sorceress Rabbitfolk!

Born as orphans during a thunderstorm alongside with her twin sister Franny, she and her were taken in by a kindly human painter whom lived in a cottage surrounded by many animals and nature as far as the eye could see. For the time they were together, everything was peaceful for the most part, with the exception of Laxar getting into trouble most of the time by being a little prankster to some villagers far away from the cottage. However, because that Laxar was born with lightning magic, her powers were difficult to control. One day an incident went a little too far when Laxar’s powers would get her into more trouble than she already did. She doesn’t know where her powers come from, and neither did the wizarding school she was assigned to in order to try and help her with her powers. Eventually, after some time, Laxar decided this would be a personal journey for her to go on to learn more about the origins of her lightning powers. She was equipped with a lightning staff to help manage her powers better, and went on her journey not only to better herself, but to help support her founding family. It’s speculated that Franny herself went on her own adventures, but where the path takes her we have yet to unravel...

Which segways us into the Wizards Wateringhole! Laxar made her way here alongside with her bag that the human painter gave to her. It was just as magical as it can get! From Laxar making friendly conversation with the bartender and a half-tiefling warlock named Ferris, to helping Data craft a potion for his journey ahead, to Laxar forming an unlikely friendship with Dalla (methinks there might be more shenanigans with the two given Dalla’s mischievous behavior and how she ended up in Laxar’s bag XDD). There was a plant lady which Laxar met earlier in the lounge, and she seemed to be arguing with a tiefling of sorts in terms for a “quest for vengeance” as it were. The tiefling warns Laxar that this isn’t her path to take, but Laxar couldn’t help but feel bad for the plant lady in distress, she had to help somehow! On the way when trying to locate her room, she encounters Dalla again and a smiling purple spider-man (forgot his name-), whom checks her in to a room since the plant lady is asleep at the moment, and we paused where Laxar takes her sleep in one of the beds which will be able to take her to the land of dreams~ Will there be secrets along the way? Only time will tell!

And the 2nd one, the Grand Shanty, has us RPing as Conner’s characters Seeker and Cherry, which I took the role of Cherry as the two have a bit of father-daughter bonding time, since Seeker decided to bring her here as a means of help perking her up. Things are swell for the most part, though there was the giant crab that Cherry devoured but it made her sick in the process XDD There was also some intruders abroad threatening the ship’s commander, these pirates were led by this lightning dragonborn whom seems to be in league with a “Captain Gracey” of sorts. They took their leave for now, and this would also be the place where Cherry first met Felly, which the two had their bonding moment and when Cherry decides to crush BIG TIME, much to Seeker’s amusement and Cherry’s embarrassment XDD The next day the same pirates came aboard, about to finish off the ship’s commander, but Cherry made it just in time to stop them, but unfortunately this derives their attention to her as she tries to run off, but since she saw too much she was about to be finished off by the lightning dragonborn until Seeker came in the nick of time to save the day and go full on papa wolf! Felly was also accompanied by a party of her own, and there was a plasmoid and shark man that helped assisted their heroes in their brutal fight against the pirates! Once they retreated, all was well, though Cherry deep down felt a sense of regret in her on her father and whatnot...

All in all, ‘twas a fun session no doubt about that! And I look forward to what else will be in store for the future!

Until then, you guys have a good one, Ashy out~

WALLPAPER IDEAS FOR BOOZEHOUNDS & FLAMINGO CONNOISSEURS.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a flamingo-themed graphic design commission for Bar 47, New York City, the Bronx, artwork by Vincent Conti, c. 2021.

LOCATION:

47 Bruckner Blvd. The Bronx, New York City 10454

HOURS:

Monday-Thursday 4pm-Late

Friday-Sunday 2pm-Late

Bars have to be the biggest waste of hard-earned money of all time, but this is graphic design I can seriously get behind. Would make a great men's shirt print, too. T-shirt and/or casual. Take your pick.

Source: https://dribbble.com/shots/20144868-Bar-47.

Terrarium

Come here, you. Quench my dry-wood lips, it has been these long days. pink-tinted, the mornings last forever,  the weeks pass us by, summer-glazed. sweetgreens and grapefruit seed, wildflower foxtrot, watering-hole reed, raindrops slip on dried-up leaves. rhizome-root and mushroomsprout,  kiss me slow with your velvetmouth,  wingtip flutter, foxglove tail,  lemon-squeeze, just a taste,  hidden alcoves, tell me what you crave, we steal away, hearts of knaves, tonguetied, to places far away, cicadasong, sweet escape, light-headed, summerhaze. a summerfield of poppies ablaze. 

Come close, even closer. Give it time, let it thaw, serve me with tender sweetbread. take me now, animal raw, grappling, panting, quickened breaths. soaked soil, soaking wet,  I like it dirty, butter-melt, pungent scents, flower bloom,  burning throats, narcotic fumes, cut-lilies exhale, fiddlehead coils unfurl. peppermint nose, I’m down to my knees, you have me in chokehold, enslaved. Clavicles, chalices, wateringhole, quench my throat, rainstorm drenched. lightning flashes, thundercrash, sycamores brim with envious tales,  of raging poppies, set ablaze, as we burn, burn the night away.

Go low, even lower. Eve’s applebite, an upheaval of sorts, order quelled, a nation’s uproar, Eden’s exile,  we steal away in the night, shadow-storm,  my basest instincts, crude oil, hell-form. Snake-venom surging through my veins, snake-tongue flickering away,  scorpionsong, fever-pitch high, fang-toothed, sucking me dry, the oil slick of my bare thighs, unearthed excavations of antiquities vile, Warm notes of ether, combustible,  taken, transported, you’ve had your fill, moksha, kama sutra, ravi varma’s hues, I am most woman when I am with you.  Watch my unspooling, my undoing, as we burn,  slowly the night away.

Go slow, yes, slower. I hang slick, peeled-back skins,  rolled-back eyelids, boundaries thin, pretty please with a cherry on top, my favorite kind of flavor, spun sugar, candyfloss, shaken champagne, lust exigent, cherry-pop.  this game we play, that hurt a little bit, you loosen your coils, no, I liked it, I melt like butter, hot knife, rising dough slip through a maze, cigaretteburns, stunned to a daze, twist and churn, flesh-tinted, oozing, you’re starving today, brandy with some bite to it, give it to me straight,  like you mean it every step of the way. wax and wane, bring it to boil,  pendulum swings to midnight strike. crème de la crème, burnt sugar,  caramelburst, ethernotes, brimstone fire.

Hush, quiet now,  breathless still, we lay quietly, burning, afire

you whisper in my ears,  flatter me with pillowtalk, candied words, all I want to hear we'll be as one, come-what-way

we bicker and brawl,  animal raw,  the dead awake from their graves, we’ll stick it out, come-what-may 

peppermint nose,  opium-made, swimming in warm ether, a poppyfield laid ablaze.

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Footnote: Late post. Originally written Sep 2023