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it's funny, I was talking to someone last night who didn't really know what an illustrator was. so when I introduced myself as one, he gave a speech that would've probably gone over well with a gallery artist, but which was precision-tailored to make any illustrator within a 50 mile radius go into eyes-glowing-red kill mode.
his speech was about how there is a difference between craft and art, and how people can practice craft (as in, skillfully execute a painting) without it having any artistic merit.
so I'm someone who gets paid to paint waffles for restaurant menus and dinosaurs for museums exhibits, and AHHHHHH! AHHHHHHH! you can't make art without it being something something you've made. does that make sense? like every illustrator I know has an individual way of approaching any given imagery that is informed by a lifetime of inspiration, and of passive intake of culture, and of the specific mistakes they make because of whatever their particular mass of grey matter deems as important thing to render or unimportant, just fuck it up.
I can make something that is informed by both a century of Canadian print-making and by my own particular neurosis, and it can also be commissioned commercial imagery that I regurgitate without care because I want to pay my mortgage. everything is art, nothing isn't art, art is something sticky and impossible to shake off of you.
anyway he got very wide-eyed and said "I'm sorry if I offended you," so today I feel a bit bad for having gotten so, uh.... excited.
#Imagine trying to mansplain art#I'm an artist and I can't fully explain art#other than “I'm a person and I made a thing! It gives me emotions!!”
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a post-doc was doing a guest seminar at my institute and at the beginning of his presentation he was explaining why he chose birds for his evolutionary analysis - so he said "well first of all, because birds are the best and most interesting animals and it's fun to study them" and a few professors in the room gave him a very serious nod
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Their wings look so much like butterfly wings! Gorgeous birds.
Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), family Eurypygidae, order Eurypygiformes, found in Central and South America
This bird is the only member of its family. Its closest living relative is the Kagu of New Caldeonia.
Photograph by Erisvaldo Almeida
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I've met him in person btw and he's a fucking sweetheart
[ID: Text-intensive Twitter thread from the Shapeshifters chest binders Twitter account in reply to a post by artist and author Ursula Vernon. Vernon says, A non-zero number of you apparently did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written. Shapechangers replies, I saw him every year at NYCC for several years straight, bought something at his table, asked him to sign it, and we spoke. He remembered me from year to year, no small feat at that con. He remembered which stories he'd told me. One year I came back with a different gender on. He squinted at me a bit and said thoughtfully, "I've seen you before in this place." All I had to say was, "last year you told me the story about the inoshishi." And his face cleared, and he leaned in with a grin and told me about a German guitarist who he traveled with, twice. Who transitioned between the first and second time, so he'd gotten to meet this person all over again on the second round. It was a wonderfully kind way to let me know that everything was fine. I was fresh out of the closet and I needed that, and maybe he could see it. The Last Unicorn is the best book in the world and I will defend it and its author til I die. the end. /end ID]
I don't usually talk about celebrities; artists, when I do, and I'm keenly aware that one needn't be a good person to be a hell of a heartwrenching artist.
But Peter S. Beagle has written a few of my favorite things in the world, he's an excellent singer and filker, and this Twitter thread was dreadfully important to me. I don't want it going away as Twitter becomes Shitter, because it's so often bad news, isn't it? It's important to me to share trans joy.
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that's no dog that's a rabbit with a muzzle
Don't need a kite anymore just get a long leash and hope for a strong gust of wind
With those satellite dishes that pup gets the reception to catch that new sitcom they play on Mars TV
YOU’RE TELLING ME THIS IS A 1 TO 2 YEAR OLD DOG??? YEARS??? THIS THING??? YEARS????
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Owls also do the females-bigger thing!
Here's one I like: chickadees are very smart for such tiny birds. They in fact have larger brains in winter than in summer! The hippocampus part of a black-capped chickadee's brain gets about 30% bigger when it has to remember where it has stored food during the winter.
Chickadees are known to have a sort of mini-language - scientists have found 14 different complex calls, the most complex being one that alerts other chickadees to the presence of small owls. They in fact can understand the mobbing calls of other species, such as nuthatches, which are close to the same size and thus have similar predators. A mobbing call is something birds do when they spot a predator, to call others over so they can mob - harrass - them away. I've watched a multi-species mob attack a great horned owl, with crows, ravens, a nuthatch (which didn't stick around), a woodpecker and a Cooper's hawk, so clearly there is some understanding between different unrelated species!
When you feed birds, chickadees will look you right in the eye when they land on your hand. I'm not sure what goes on in their little heads, but I believe they're a lot smarter than you'd think.
Do you have any cool bird facts
female raptors (eagles, hawks, falcons, etc) are larger than male raptors in pretty much all species. this happens even in groups not closely related to each other (ex: hawks and falcons), so its beneficial enough in their niche that its evolved independently a few times, though its unsure exactly what that benefit is atm (bc unlike males being larger in a lot of mammals, female raptors dont make a habit of fighting each other or using size to attract mates as far as we know). ex: heres a male and female Cooper's Hawk
somewhat mentioned above but falcons are more closely related to parrots than they are to hawks
Gray Catbirds and American Robins have been witnessed raising young in the same nest at the same time. In one instance (reported by Mulvihill and Murray), they were recorded caring for the young of both species in the nest, and when the Catbird young fledged, the adult Catbirds continued to provide food for the not-yet-fledged Robins. heres a pic of the nest from the report
the worlds oldest known bird as of 2024 is a wild Laysan Albatross named Wisdom who's 72-73 years old (at minimum, we dont actually know her birth date, just that she was at least 5 years old when she was banded in the 50s) and still raising chicks. here's her with one of her chicks
also Albatrosses have wingspans of up to 3.5m/11.5ft and have been recorded flying 49,700 miles without touching land (they do land in the water to eat tho)
this is from personal experience but if you walk around in a north american grassland for long enough, you Will get jumpscared by a Mourning Dove bc they make their nests on the ground in the grass and like to hang out on the ground in the grass and they also like to wait until youre right overtop of them to freak out and fly away from you
Bald Eagles don't get their fully white heads and tails until theyre about 5 years old
A lot of birds have been observed incorporating cigarette butts into their nests, and a study in Mexico on House Finches found that this actually results in drastic decreases in parasites affecting young compared to nests without them
Cedar Waxwings (and Waxwings in general) just look so smooth. they look like someone airbrushed them. look at this shit
in Jacanas, females lay eggs in multiple males' nests, and then the males raise the young by themself. Also they carry their babies under their wings like this
Horned Guan. Theyre endangered and live in a small area of central america. both the males and females have the little horn fez, the males just have taller ones
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I think one of my favourite works is Malevitch's white on white. Can I do it? Yes, I can paint a white square on white. But my art journey didn't take me to the extreme of deconstruction of what makes art- the fact isn't that I couldn't, it's that I wouldn't, and wouldn't even have considered without my background in fine arts. The journey for an artist is as important as the destination - and, in some cases, so much more complex than you'd think.
(I still don't like Duchamp though)
abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao
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reference and free icon for a friend who's been waiting since February 💖 he's a real sweetheart, a long time friend and a repeat client! he's ALSO a growing steamer over on twitch! check him out at @inhumanbaron!
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First one yes, second one looks more like common mergansers to me, at least the two ducks on the right! They have a much starker cut-off point between the head and the neck and that bright white chin, so they would either be female common mergansers or non-breeding plumage males. The one on the left could be a red-breasted merganser, with that white around the eye. Both are very handsome ducks in any case!
Hello again, you fabulous person you! I am back to request some identifications, if I may. Saw this mama and her babies (about 10 in total. This was just my favourite shot) in Lake Superior Provincial Park at Agawa Bay campground. My mom and I were there for a week and we saw the family every day, multiple times a day, going up and down the shoreline. We know they are mergansers, but don’t know what kind. We think maybe red breasted or common?
These guys we saw in Gargantua Bay, same park, Lake Superior. Also mergansers, different than the family. Couldn’t get a better shot than this though.
As always, thank you so much for all that you do and all of the joy you bring to myself and others on here. I have learned about some awesome critters from you!
Thank you for sharing this, I'm pretty sure that all of the ducks in these photos are
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator), family Anatidae, order Anseriformes
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me kinda now that I know it exists...
WHO WANTS THIS SHIT. WHO IS THIS AD FOR. WHO
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Thank you so much for saying so boo-boo kittens.
Let me slip you this very special lizard…
Brazilian Galliwasp (Diploglossus lessonae), family Diploglossodae, endemic to Northwestern Brazil.
Photograph by MOC Reptiles
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Couuuuld be purple imperial jasper (also a dyed stone)? Boulder opal is a decent possibility as well. That definitely isn't hematite, too. They also have "cherry quartz" in the reds, which is another type of manmade gemstone. It's pretty, but glass.
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Also gonna add: Some of these gemstones are very rarely faceted this way since they are very soft or have cleavage that will not allow it. Fluorite just WANTS to break into cubes, and is so soft that you would scratch it to hell trying to wear it. The one in the multicolored gemstones is pretty much impossible, you'd never get crisp facets like that.
Several gemstones also get color-enhanced through heat treating or even dyes (see howlite-turquoise). That blue-purple agate? Dyed. That turquoise? A composite stone made from bits of other turquoises resin'd together.
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