Halley's Comet, May 13, 1910. Populare Astronomie. 1922.

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Re- Stephen Ellcock

I'm being asked about this and I don't want to start some war or gossip-fest, so I'm just going to shut it all down if it becomes that, but in the interests of not be cryptic, I will explain. I want to say upfront that I am not mad at anyone or accusing anyone of anything and I can offer supporting evidence for different scenarios so if even Mr Ellcock reads this I don't imagine he would be offended.

Stephen Ellcock is a popular social media blogger collecting images and even publishing them in a book. He's got a very loyal following and his content I feel is good.

But for many years on instagram or when I was on facebook, I would see the same images I put on this blog and casually wonder if an image had come from me directly or indirectly. Certain images seemed like they were from obscure sources and the timing seemed odd for two people to discover at the same time, but you know that happens all the time too.

Today I checked his Instagram and scrolling through it I would say 50-70% of his images have been on this blog at one time. That too is not necessarily meaningful but it's a large number.

The trouble with tumblr is that people sources images of often from the same places and even if you're careful (and I try to be) not to get tumblr images, there are many ways that scans populate and get spread around and so someone may post something of yours they got anywhere but where you might imagine it (or pinterest where attributions go to die).

Many examples of this are places like auction houses which have good scholarship and photos, collating sites like PDR review, brain pickings other social media sites as well as non functioning old blogs or sites that once did lots of scans but have disappeared. I feel this is fine, most people do not do scans and those who do usually do not scan 100% of their material, it's about curation and creating a blog that reflects your taste.

Sometimes people are imitating you. There's a very popular art blog on instagram that was 100% taking my content every single day and in order and until I joined instagram, I had no idea.

So yes, I have wondered about Ellcock and not even specifically me but just tumblr because so much of what he posts would seem to be the kind of thing you see here. I have certainly seen Nemfrog's posts everywhere, you know, these things happen.

But, certainly you can have the same taste as someone. I have definitely posted things I later found to be on other blogs that I simply wasn't aware of and some that are ubiquitous, and it makes little difference, but I did not source material from said blogs, it just happened. You know, you discover Harald Sohlberg, look around for his paintings and there are not endless number of sources so you're probably getting it where someone else did.

I inadvertently posted scans by the great 50wattsbooks and I have seen many other that did too. Now I credit them but it was because of their scans turning up in a huge number of places uncredited. And I am not surprised as they have an amazing book collection and great scans. I have seen my own scans various places but I don't think it's malicious.

So my conclusion has been that many of us find the same things probably from similar sources. It seems like big coincidence with Ellcock but then again some of those astronomy pictures are public domain things published on the web by a lot of different sites since they don't violate copyright and I am pretty sure who originally scanned them is fairly obscure even when you try to find out.

Today, I just mentioned this in passing and someone mentioned some kind of thing about deathandmysticism and Ellcock. I don't know anything about it, but it was, somewhat conspiratorially, interesting.

And if he's getting it from tumblr, thousands of others are too on facebook and insta and twitter etc, I think he's just well known and now profiting off it and it makes him a more noticeable figure.

I hope this answer is even handed, I intend it to be.

Ceramic Bunny. Silver Lake, Los Angeles. December 9, 2020.

[Home movie 098178] 7 min., color: “A visit (by an LA family) to family members in different southwest locations: Latinx, Mexican-American family members in Texas, other family in mountain west.”  1950s. Excerpt.

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GRIPE GRIP

There is a ghost at the end of the song. 

Some songxiao for @frost-and-snow Day 2: Snow ❄

(Sources below the cut)

Quotes: 1) “I'll pursue solitary pathways...” - Rainer Maria Rilke, Advent (“Weißt du, ich will mich schleichen...”; translator unknown) 2) “him I love/More than I love these eyes...” - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ( @theodorable93 , genius idea) 3) “he was pointing at the moon...” - Richard Siken, "Anyway" 4) “When you love somebody...” - Fruit Bats (Eric D. Johnson), "When U Love Somebody" 5) “--what does it all come down to? ...” - e e cummings, “you being in love… (XII)”

Base photos from The Untamed/Chen Qing Ling (2019) and from Unsplash. Illustrations captured and curated by @nemfrog

dementedstatic replied to your photo “nemfrog: Fig. 5. Palm reading diagram. Larousse mensuel illustré....”

{{Join me in the corner of 'weird things he can probably do, but also not so weird when you think about who he is.' Like read tarot cards.}}

( ooh, tarot cards. now THERE’S a cool idea. yours does, yeah? i seem to recall a post to that effect. )

Things I’ve gotten better since joining Tumblr 3 years ago:

Making wilder gifs.

Optimizing gifs on ezgifs.com to fit within the 3MB limit and no longer creating those froze-up Archive (view) Only Active Gifs (AOAGs as I called them).

Providing and linking sources.

Things I’ve still been lagging on:

Backtracking and updating my hashtags.

Getting caught up on my unexplained Magonia entries (let that fall away).

Getting caught up on my steamable projects.

Promising to start posting more recipes, AD&D stuff, stuff from National Lampoon, Mad Magazine, and Spy.

Balancing out my input and output between all my Tumblr likes I constantly re-shuffle (why some of you will see me strategically like and re-like posts), while getting caught up and balanced with my time I have with all my saves on Flickr, Pinterest, the 20,000 images I have on Imgur, and a backlog of stuff I raid from Open Directories, PDFs, comic archives, e-hentai, Reddit, forgotten blogs, and fossilized Tumblr accounts found on Tumbex, Porncore, etc. etc.

Getting caught up on my personal photo scans.

Being able to post MP3s that aren’t all dumb and dysfunctional (sorry for the bum “Hour of Slack!” posts-again, if anyone has a better way of grabbing and reposting audio MP3 files, throw that knowledge my way).

Sending PMs to the very blogs ( @rhade-zapan , @workman , @mudwerks , @scavengedluxury , @thesmokingghost , @nemfrog , etc. etc.) that inspired me to get on Tumblr in the first-place and encourage them that they are doing a great job.

the wandering goat,

There is no question I am someone starving. There is no question I am making this journey to find out what that appetite is.                    —                                    Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry              

And how does one retain strength for oneself when giving? You know these moments when you are an empty vessel completely spent..? I asked her. I had been under the sky and it was real close like it could touch my skin. But it was relentless, this night, and my mind is a wandering goat that I must keep following and leading back by the horns. And my belly is full of sunken memories that are just now rising back up, and I still remember my name but my head - shaved at the sides, is cold and I am deep in my sleeping bag this august night. She reached into my chest and pulled it open so I could see down through my ribs, to the organs. There, you go there. Lungs, heart, rib cage. This is where your energy can be stored. Right there. Focus it. I’m gazing in for a long time, and it just begins to rain, and those candles are still burning out on the marshlands and my goat is asleep at last,

Photo : Paricutin Volcano erupting in January 1944. Michoacán, Mexico. Arno Brehme, field work photographs. Smithsonian Field Book Project via Nemfrog

Seen at Syracuse, N.Y. Reports on observations of the total solar eclipse of December 22, 1870. U.S. Naval Observatory. 1871.

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sparklebiscuit reblogged your photo:nemfrog: Daedulus gives Icarus a push. ...

#yeet

Reblogging literally for that tag.

@bobandex replied to your photo: nemfrog: Rhamphorhynchus, a pterosaur with a...

Pictured on one of our best selling t-shirts for the Society of Earth Science Students (SESS) at the University of Arizona!

nice!

Silver Lake, Los Angeles. December 24, 2020. 

He became a shape floating above the horizon. Nemfrog Films. 2019.

gif/video based an original photo, from the plaza of our lady of the angels cathedral, los angeles

title from “rothko’s last meditation”, a poem by bob hickok

thejunesky replied to your photo “nemfrog: “The unregenerate heart.” Christian similitudes. 1866.”

i’m the guilt bat

I’ll be the chicken-footed turtle-frog of covetousness.

I took some liberties, but this is based on photo ref from an old photo I found on a Tumblr I like: Nemfrog. “Meshie holding Mary Raven, aged 2 ½ months. Natural History. November-December 1933.”