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archiemcphee:

This awesome snake sculpture is 40 feet long and made of green willow and other organic materials. It resides next to the Jade Water Pavillion in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver, British Columbia and will be on display until the end of April 2013.

“As part of the Eco-Arts program at the Community Arts Council Vancouver (CACV), this snake is created by community members with the guidance and vision of Alastair Heseltine to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Alastair Heseltine is a prominent Hornby Island artist who has worked extensively with environmental mixed media. The green willow usually sprouts around April, so the snake will become truly a living object and achieve a whole different look in the spring!”

[via the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden Society of Vancouver]

(Second photo taken by Arlen Redekop via The Province)

A different type of animal art, of the painted ox variety, via archiemcphee:

A villager shows his painted ox on a stage during a bull painting contest held in Jiangcheng county in southwest China’s Yunnan province.

Photo from the Associated Press [via Telegraph.co.uk]

Nautically Victorian ace of spades design. Looks like an octopus (do technically “arms”, not “tentacles”).

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Right then? Happy bEaster OverPass—please keep your hands inside the ride at all times, for your own safety. And have a great weekend! Art by Tenso Graphics via 2headedsnake

“Cranes” art by Katsushika Hokusai via japanlove:

Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎^?, September 23, 1760 – May 10, 1849)^[1] was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting.^[2] Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei^?, c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s.

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The “Wooly Penguin” was actually a mis-classification of King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) chicks as a different species due to their pre-pubescent shag. The whole thing makes me chuckle, frankly. via biomedicalephemera:

The King Penguin is the second-largest penguin out there, second only to the very similar-looking Emperor Penguin. The King Penguin has a longer breeding cycle than the Emperors, with chicks taking almost 16 months to fully fledge and become independent of their parents. As the breeding cycle is so long, their colonies are continually occupied. Since caring for the offspring for over a year takes a massive amount of energy, the adult penguins often leave for weeks at a time to fish and replenish their fat stores enough to feed the youngsters. While their parents are out fishing, the young king penguins form crèches, watched over by just a few adult penguins, who stick close by primarily to protect the crèche from the potential-but-uncommon predators.

Imagine coming upon thousands upon thousands little wooly birds taking up a massive area of an island, with a single adult king penguin waddling around here and there. If you didn’t know about the crèches of other penguin species, why would you suspect anything besides this being a previously-unknown species? The early explorers and naturalists certainly thought as much. The early “Wooly Penguin” representations by Latham and a couple of other ornithological and antarctic naturalists have all been confirmed to have been the juvenile form of the King Penguin.

A General History of Birds, Vol X. John Latham, MD. 1781.

Owls!!!!!!

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Stunning early 15th Century watercolor of cheetahs. Stun-ning. From The British Museum. via angrywhistler:

Anon. Lombard, Two cheetahs, 1400-10, bodycolour and watercolour on vellum.

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Pretty interesting example of artistically playing with your food. Rice pigs? Hard to identify what everything on the platter is. And whether it is food or some playdoh type thing.

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Clubber by Josh Ellingson (@ellingson) who is a buddy and a great artist via laughingsquid

A squid and octopus guest star on “Tarot, The Lovers” by bluefooted via fer1972

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Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo Bear on an original Hanna-Barbera model sheet from 1960 via rrrick

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