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[PHOTOS TAKEN: JULY 19TH, 2025 | Image IDs: Three photos of two separate, black and beige american carrion beetles (not in frame together), one a bit darker in color than the other, in the sandy soil around a carcass that's mostly off screen /End IDs.]

American carrion beetles, which carry the unfortunate name of Necrophila americana! These were hard to get photos of, between how active they were and how much the rabbit carcass they were likely looking to lay some eggs in was stinking :P but I pressed on regardless, as I had never seen this species before!

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Blue Spots Takasago Tayu Painting.     Early 20th century Japanese postcard

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what I love about Etho and Bdubs dynamic is that its cat and dog but like black panther and chihuahua. Etho, black panther very calculated and has a scary reputation, can pull off terrifying tricks but like any wild predator is very skittish, backs off or runs scared even if he could pull something off if he’s not in his state of having things go his way. His kills are all about catching people off guard but is easily chased off if his plotting is revealed, instantly gives up if his kill isnt clean and falls apart in straight forward combat greatly perfering the shadows.

Bdubs, chihuahua barks and yips at everything suspicious (which he believes anything and everything is). Employing the tactic of act big to scare people off. glued to his person Etho but forever giving attitude towards Etho’s nature of sleeking off to set up his kills. Bdubs sounds like someone that could tear your face off but man cant hurt a fly. He announces every attack and his greatest successes come from his trusting teammates and the sheer gaul stunning his victims with confusion so he can nab his kill. Bdubs attacks in the open full announcement of his bloodthirsty intentions.

the cutest thing is that theyre such good buddies. Loyal only to themselves threaten to not be but can never commit. like a service dog for an anxious cheetah. Love their dichotomy.

(all in playful interpretation as I see them in the life series, this is more in poetic jest then actual breakdowns of their play styles both of which are really interesting and have merits and pitfalls)

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OP demonstrates how Nuowu傩巫 in ancient china treated minor physical ailments -using the five tones correspond to five organs theory (cr 觉灵姐姐)

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Agate, Katsushika Hokusai, Tatsumi no Sato Bikarô, Chishundô Fukuyoshi, 1822, color woodcut; embossing; line block in black with color blocks; metallic pigments;polishing, h 206mm × W 180MM. Bequest of JA Bierens de Haan, Amsterdam, 1958. RP-P-1958-289. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. © The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Finally made a cetacean sculpture! Had to be a sperm whale of course :) cone 5.5 stoneware with underglaze and glaze

This sculpture and new work will be available at the Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery in hopefully a weeks time, I’ll keep everyone updated!

video id: A ceramic sperm whale sculpture with its mouth held open. Its dark, shiny body is littered with scars- from fluke to rostrum. Illustrated on its body in buttercup yellow with tentacles trailing down the whale’s body is a giant squid. Seaweed, stars and yellow dot work frame the sides of the cephalopod, and two little fish sit above its mantle.

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Mosaic from the floor of Otto Wagner's former residence, Vienna, Austria

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The Ocean at Dusk -  Kate Jarvik Birch 

American , b. 1977 -

Gouache on paper , 10 x 10 in.

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Eshkachech being sung with cave acoustics??!

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Giant Mosquito (2021)

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