#Silversides

[mareislandfoundation]

Mare Island Submarine

Photograph showing the conning tower of a World War II submarine as her periscope appears to cleave the sky above.  Over 500 ships were built during the 142 years Mare Island Naval Shipyard served the Nation.  Those ships ranged from wooden hulled sidewheeler gunboats to a massive battleship, but it was because of the shipyard’s expertise with the complexities of submarine construction that it became known as a submarine yard in later years.  All but one of the Mare Island built ships have fallen victim to scrappers torches or they lie on the ocean bottom, victims of the sea or enemy action.  The USS Silversides (SS-236) is the lone surviving ship.   She is a museum ship in, of all places, Muskegon Michigan. She is a Gato Class fleet-type submarine built at Mare Island just prior to the outbreak of World War II. She was christened by Mrs. James J. Hogan, wife of Dr. Hogan, Vallejo's civilian representative in Washington, and founder of Council No. l, Navy League, in Vallejo. Dr. Hogan was convinced that Mare Island was Vallejo's lifeblood, and he was one of its most effective champions until his death in 1942. Silversides was launched on August 26, 1941, and she was commissioned one week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Silversides departed on her first war patrol on April 30, 1942, for which she was credited with sinking four ships and damaging one. She went on to establish one of the top submarine combat records in the Pacific.  Her record reflected more war patrols than all but 5 submarines, while sinking the third greatest number of ships (23), totaling 145,400 tons. During these patrols, the quality of her construction allowed her to escape undamaged following seventeen counterattacks by the Japanese where a total of 163 depth charges were dropped. Following the war, Silversides was towed up the Mississippi River with her superstructure removed to permit passing under bridges. She then became the submarine training ship at Great Lakes Training Station where she continued to serve until 1969. She has been on display at the USS Silversides Submarine Museum in Muskegon, Michigan since 1987. 

Dennis Kelly

[davidnadas]

Collision of Performance and Music

There are certain pieces of music that trigger a person’s opiate receptors–– a channel opened–– only they can hear. For me, the performance of, In this Shirt by The Irrepressibles is just that… This performance is a collision of art and music, together of which are greater than the sum of its parts. This combination or artistic expression transcends space and time–– they do not merely coexist––…

[remiicore]

coloring a brook silverside (wip)

not really a drawing bc i totally traced a photo this is just for fun and i think it’s pretty :)) my favorite stream fish

doing the style of those rainbow scratch sheet things, inspired by @hoorayitsefe on instagram!

[gacktova]

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

We do like being hermits. In fact, we've got a pretty rad insular cult going on up here in our lake.

Quechulac Silverside (Poblana squamata) AKA Charal de Quechulac

endemic to one half-km square crater lake in Puebla, Mexico

Status: Critically Endangered due to its tiny population

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There were only two photos on the internet with wildly different lighting so I got creative with the coloring.

[t00thpasteface]

testing yourself on IDing fish species will have you saying shit like "Membras martinica you son of a BITCH!!"

↑ son of a bitch

[the-descolada]

Shoaling in the shallows

[teratomat]

Why on earth would I want you to express your individuality? No. I want you to play your designated roles.

[bethanythebogwitch]

About 1/4 of this sample sorted by species. Now I need to measure all of them. I am very bored.

[drasticemotions]

does anyone else just get the inexplicable urge to be eating deli meat in the middle of the night & early hours of the morning or is that just a me thing

[thumbprintscar]

wave from forg 🐸

[sp00ky-scary]

why is roast beef the most disappointing of roast meats, roast chicken ? ily you're perfect, roast pork ? you're expensive but ily, roast LAMB ??? delicious, perfection, my fave, but roast beef ? :///// okay ig…

[remiicore]

more tracing than drawing, but i did a fun little exercise with some arkansas native critters using negative space! (all are tracings of photos off google, they’re easy to find if you google the species.)

i was heavily inspired by @hoorayitsefe on instagram! she did a cute fish and flower one and inspired me to do the sort of scratch paper design. i definitely needed something to turn my brain off a bit and relax and this is so fun, might be adding more of these in the future 👀

[gacktova]

[supersunsetnova]

My 6.43am Christmas dinner for one, no turkey for me, I’ve seen enough this past two weeks to put me right off until next year. I have always preferred silverside of beef.

Butter glazed sprouts

Cauliflower cheese with plenty of English cheddar

Long stemmed broccoli and fresh peas,

Duck fat roast potatoes,

Silverside of beef.

Gifts at the end because I have looked after myself this year I think, so a few movies and an amazing Lego set too celebrate 100 years of Disney

[t00thpasteface]

54 common fish of texas, part 7: inland silverside (Medinida beryllina), rough silverside (Membras martinica)