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“Amazing-Man Comics” September, 1939, from the Golden Age of comics: amazing snake-biting man! via x-ray delta one and mudwerks

Amazing-Man (John Aman) is a fictional, American comic book superhero whose adventures were published by Centaur Publications during the 1930s to 1940s in the Golden Age of Comic Books. Historians credit his creation variously to writer-artist Bill Everett^[1] or to Everett together with Centaur art director Lloyd Jacquet.^[2] Amazing-Man first appeared in Amazing-Man Comics #5 (Sept. 1939)

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Best snail photos ever. Via priceofliberty & taktophoto: tales of nature from Vyacheslav Mishchenko

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3 great things? Archive.org, Radiolab, and cephalopods. Done. I got yr trinity RIGHT HERE. Via wnycradiolab:

More great illustrations for Die Cephalopoden.  You can read the whole thing on archive.org (and if you don’t read German, you have our permission to skip to the pictures).

Kit-ty!

free-parking:

Francis Alÿs, Nightwatch, 2004.  

Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night.

my now favoritest thing. finally a fox with some *taste*!

Le Chat Noir, Paris, or “The Studio Cat”, André Kertész via poboh

André Kertész (2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.^[1][2]

British magazine editor Isabella Blow (1958 – 2007): “The muse of hat designer Philip Treacy” per Wikipedia. She discovered Stella Tennant, Sophie Dahl and Alexander McQueen. Via inneroptics

Actually it’s the satanic leaf-tailed gecko who sees you when you are sleeping (and knows when you’re awake). Ignore all suggestions to the contrary. Via rhamphotheca:

The satanic leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus) is the smallest of 12 species of bizarre-looking leaf-tailed geckos. The nocturnal creature has extremely cryptic camouflage so it can hide out in forests in Madagascar. This group of geckos is found only in primary, undisturbed forests, so their populations are very sensitive to habitat destruction. Large Uroplatus species have more teeth than any other living terrestrial vertebrate species.

(photo: Piotr Naskrecki; via: Live Science)

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My second in a pair of cattle posts—a handy animation of the range of the bulls of Pablo Picasso from 1945-1946.

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Today’s a great day to read a book. On an elephant.

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whataboutbobbed:

Klaus Kinski (October 18, 1926 – November 23, 1991) starring in what may be the greatest photo I’ve seen this week

Kinski in a bed of gun and dog tongue. Now try to sleep tonight.

Art by Andrea Galvani from “Death of an Image“—intersection of helium-horse-balloon. Love it. More in The New Yorker. via soulpancake & arpeggia