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Magwayen - Visdev Study #1 (2015 Portfolio)

Visayan (Philippines) Goddess of the Sea and Ferrywoman of the Dead

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Pastel and oil paint portraits Philippine women by Fernando Amorsolo, Fabian de la Rosa, I. L. Miranda and Pablo Amorsolo

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The Streets of San Francisco, Leigh Merrill

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Shore break

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Jim

He was born in stars,he belong to space

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Artist on Tumblr

Kerby Rosanes | on Tumblr (Philippines) - Sketchy Stories

Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes works mainly with ordinary black pens to magically illustrate his “doodle” world. The 23-year old artist considers his art as a personal hobby which turned out to be his part-time freelance work after being recognized by various design blogs, international magazines and online communities.

© All images courtesy of the artist

[more Kerby Rosanes | via My Modern Met]

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Alexandra Trese and her twin bodyguards, the Kambal. Trese is a detective who deals with supernatural crimes in the city of Manila.

from a Philippine local graphic novel “Trese” (by Budjette Tan and artist Kajo Baldisimo) 

This “Philippine folklore meets modern age” comic is definitely worth checking out! available locally in bookstores (philippines) + on Kindle.

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Spectacular archaeological find in Denmark

A mysterious stone found in a ditch on Bornholm by archaeology students during the summer has proven to be a 5,000 years old map.

According to the magazine Skalk, the stone was discovered during  archaeological excavation work at the Neolithic shrine Vasagård.

The stone has been studied by researchers at the National Museum of Denmark. Unlike previous and similar findings, archaeologist and senior researcher at the National Museum, Flemming Kaul, is reasonably certain that the stone does not show the sun and the sun’s rays, but displays the topographic details of a piece of nature on the island as it appeared between the years 2700 and 2900 BC.

Kaul called the stone “without parallel”. Read more.

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Mid-Century Illustrated, Jeremy Booth

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LESSING, Karl Friedrich Royal Couple Mourning for their Dead Daughter 1830 Oil on canvas, 215 x 193 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

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My problem with a lot of dudes is the fact that their idea of conversation is automatically “let’s debate” when most of the time I just wanted to share ideas and get to know a person. I feel like they want to somehow “win” the conversation and I’m sitting there just like… I didn’t sign up for this debate class

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If someone trusts you enough to tell you personal things such as their struggle with depression or what anxiety feels like or just how they feel in general, please don’t be a shitty person and brush it off by belittling it just because you’ve never experienced it. It feels like shit to be told your feelings don’t matter by the one person you actually trusted enough to tell. 

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Huge ancient shipyard unearthed on Turkey’s Dana Island

A huge shipyard, believed to be the oldest in the world, has been discovered on Dana Island in the southern province of Mersin’s Silifke district.

Academics believe that the huge shipyard, which includes nearly 270 slipways, could shed light on the 400-year “Dark Ages” of the Mediterranean over 1,000 years B.C.

“This is the one and only in the world. The biggest shipyard that has been proven archaeologically in the world,” said Hakan Öniz, the head of Selçuk University’s Underwater Archaeology Department.

Öniz said they had started underwater works on the coasts of Mersin in 2015 in an attempt to discover archaeological artifacts and prohibited areas for diving on the coasts of Mersin, particularly in Silifke. Read more.

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Earliest Limb Transplant ID'd in Painting

Italian researchers have identified the earliest representation of limb transplant in an ancient altar piece, suggesting that physicians dreamed up such intervention more than 1,500 years ago.

Made by an obscure painter, Matteo di Pacino, the artwork can be found at the North Carolina Art Museum in Raleigh. It dates to the 14th century and depicts, at the base of the altarpiece, a 5th-century tale about the healing of a man suffering from a leg disease.

“Historic sources describe the event as a miracle that occurred in 474 AD,” Antonio Perciaccante, at the department of medicine of Gorizia hospital, told Discovery News.

According to the story, Saints Cosmas and Damian, two physicians converted to Christianity who practiced in a Roman province of Syria, severed the limb of the patient and replaced it with a healthy leg taken from a deceased Ethiopian male. Then they placed the amputated leg inside the Ethiopian’s coffin. Read more.

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Meet Lidar: the amazing laser technology that's helping archaeologists discover lost cities

Archaeologists have discovered several medieval cities, buried beneath the forest floor in Cambodia: the largest is said to rival the modern Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, in size. It’s a monumental discovery, based on two major archaeological surveys of the area around Siem Reap, not far from the famous temple complex of Angkor Wat in the heartlands of the ancient Khmer culture.

Once, an archaeologist would have spent their entire career hacking through the jungle, machete in hand, in order to map these ruins. But thanks to the clever use of airborne laser scanning technology, the entire project took just three years. Such is the incredible power of Lidar – short for “light detection and ranging” – an innovation which is causing great excitement throughout the archaeological world.

From 2012 to 2015, archaeologist Damian Evans and his team used Lidar technology, mounted on helicopters, to map some 2,230km² with an accuracy of +/- 150mm. Read more.