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2019-01-01 0 notes

Peace Is Our Profession, happy new year folks.

been admiring theo jansen’s strandbeests for decades. here’s the new breed, the uminami, which “doesn’t have hinging joints like the classical strandbeests. So they don’t get sand in their joints and you don’t have to lubricate them.”

(UMINAMI 2018)

Source: youtube.com

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(V&A · Explore Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook: Codex Forster I)

Source: vam.ac.uk

2018-12-20 432 notes

dailymajordeegan:

claytoncubitt:
Cheeky
(via claytoncubitt on Instagram)
Q: I like your photos, but why are you censoring nudity?
Short answer: because this.
[…]
But honestly, there’s very little incentive for an artist to publish even modestly sexual visual work online. This is specially true when an artist also does work that requires patronage from often-skittish and culturally conservative corporations. Sexual images become extremely popular with rebloggers, and begin to crowd out more mainstream images, leading to an inaccurate survey of an artist’s oeuvre. While it might be superficially satisfying to have many thousand reblogs on a sexual/nude image, these many thousand reblogs are not worth even a single tiny poorly-paid ad campaign, which they might cost by scaring clients away when those clients do Google Image searches.
It used to be you could publish some content appropriately in one venue, and other content appropriately in other venues. As Google’s reach becomes more complete and permanent, publishing content anywhere means that content is published everywhere […] (+)