Assorted trilobites inspired from the style of japanese crab paintings
Titanic: Project 401 allows you explore a jaw-droppingly authentic recreation of the RMS Titanic, from first class all the way down to the engine rooms.
Can't wait for the submersible DLC
I say this with affection: the Honor & Glory guys are absolutely fucking insane. They’re going on? Eight years of work now? With the eventual end goal of recreating every inch of Titanic in painstaking historic detail. There used to be an actual game planned for the environment as well but I think at this point it’s 100% about the ship.
Godspeed, you lunatics. Hopefully my computer will be able to handle the end product.
just encountered the real actual [k]yo! in a random S+0 match cool cool cool
Crucifix Toad (Notaden bennettii), male, Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales, Australia
Found in Eastern Australia. Fossorial (burrowing). Call is a “WOOP” sound. Max. length is 6.8 cm. Feed mainly on ants and termites.
photograph by JJ Harrison | Wikipedia CC
Misty falls and lively cascades, Gibbon River, YNP, Wyoming
© riverwindphotography, June 2023
Source: riverwindphotography
1960s dress and a matching coat set in pastel rainbow Easter egg floral print.
xtabayvintage via Instagram
with the story of the Titan submersible making headlines, and the tragedy of it becoming clear, I see a lot of people drawing poetic connections between the loss of the submersible and the loss of the ship that it was visiting: a group of rich, foolhardy, and reckless tourists go to visit the grave of an under-regulated ship with overconfident promotion, filled with the rich and famous. it seems too scripted to be true: the Titanic claims five more lives, victims to the same vices that killed 1514 people 111 years earlier.
but setting aside the nuances of the Titanic disaster (it’s complicated), I want to highlight who died that night. the exact number of victims is fuzzy, due to last-minute cancellations, aliases, stowaways, etc. but it’s believed that of the approximately 1514 victims, 528 of them were third class passengers. these were overwhelmingly poor immigrants, on their way to a new life. and yes, the Titanic did represent the height of luxury to them, including these state of the art amenities:
- outdoor space
- providing food
for all of this, they paid what is worth approximately £800 in today’s money. this is at a time when the average income in Western Europe was $3704 per year. and central Europe was less than half of that.
and beyond these victims, another 696 victims of the sinking were crew. our stories of the Titanic’s sinking tend to highlight stories about the captain, the chief officers, and the Marconi wireless operators.  but the victims were the firemen, the stewards, the kitchen staff, the cleaners, and so on.
so if you’re keeping track, of the 1514 victims of the disaster, 1224 of them were poor or working class people. over 80%.
the tourists on the Titan did not shell out $250,000 a pop to gawk at the graves of other rich people. they went to look at the graves of the poor and hopeful.
From our stacks: Cover detail from program for Swing Along. Maxon Inc. National Advertising. 1937.
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Model of a decomposing Tyrannosaurus rex at the Altmühltal Museum by Aart Walen. Bavarian Forest, Germany
Rare millefiori Bracelet, Circa 1st century AD,
In the 1st century AD, when glass production and trade had spread around the Mediterranean, Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, brought skilled glassworker slaves from Judaea, Syria, and Egypt to the Empire.
These master craftsmen not only carved gem-like glass cameos and created Hellenistic-style pieces through traditional techniques like core-and-rod, slumping, and casting.
They also introduced the revolutionary art of free-blowing glass. Inflating gobs of molten glass with blowpipes, then working them while controlling their temperatures, produced smooth, thin-walled, bubble-like creations. This dynamic, minute-to-minute method inspired a variety of innovative shapes and styles.
Romans appreciated glass not only for its practicality, but also for its beauty. Vases, for instance, might be marbled, swirled or, through the addition of mineral additives, replicate semi-precious stones.
Bottles and pitchers might be smooth, textured, lathe-cut, or ornamented with delicate frilled glass trailings. Bowls might be ribbed, rimmed, molded, or fashioned from “millefiori” (thousand flowers) discs.
These mosaic-like pieces, created by patterning glass threads in hollow glass rods, then stretching, slicing, and fusing them together, also enhance plaques, rings, beads, bracelets, and brooches. These ancient pieces were so attractive, in fact, that master glassmakers in Murano, Italy, have recently revived the complex technique.
Mainly cerulean blue, with red, navy blue, and yellow inclusions,
3″ W x ¾” H,
Image courtesy Artemis Gallery and LiveAuctioneers
dude, sheldon’s sampler is kickass and it’s the only way I ever want to play the game