Yellow Bath House Duck Cup // Tottopottery
For those confused: the player in dark blue was faking out shooting a basket. The defending player in green fell for the fake out and jumped past the player in blue attempting to block the shot. The player in green then landed out of bounds. The player in dark blue then passed him the ball. Out of reflex the player in green caught it. Since that player was out of bounds and now has the ball the ball is handed back over to the dark blue team.
~ Portrait of two brothers.
Period: Roman Period
Place of origin: Hawara, Fayum
Medium: Cedar wood with encaustic painting
For those non-USA non-southerners who may be wondering what the hell is going on in that Cracker Barrel tweet
stop believing that you ran out of time to shape yourself into who you want to be! stop believing that its ruined! stop believing you don’t have potential! you are not a fixed being! you have endless opportunities to grow.
Any time I feel the grip of anxiety that I’m too old or don’t have time to do something with my limited hours after work, I just remember the wisdom of the ancients:
i think it’s p awesome that the first compasses invented in china were not magnetic, but in fact mechanical - the cart with the little wooden man pointing south was built in a way that no matter which way the cart turned, the little man would always point south
this is a model of what it looked like
how does this work? it’s so cool and confusing
the gears are aligned in a way to always turn the little man in the opposite direction as the cart at the same rate of rotation. so if the man points at you, and you turn the cart clockwise 90 degrees, the man will be turned counterclockwise 90 degrees, and still be facing you. if you turn the cart counterclockwise 90 degrees, the man will be turned clockwise 90 degrees, and still be facing you
as for how they got the cart to point south to begin with, that goes into fengshui and cardinal direction geomancy. but long story short, the workshops that built these carts would have their front doors facing south to begin with (using the sun and the stars to figure out which way is south), so all they would have to do is build the cart facing that direction, and the little man will always point south
thank you!
[ID: A small cubed box with two wheels forming a cart, with gears visible beneath the box’s clear cover. Atop the gears there is a wooden figure of a person pointing. The cart sits on a shelf /End ID]
[text ID: Let me tell you a story about war. A man says to another man Can I tell you something? The other man says No. A man says to another man There is something I have to tell you. No, says the other man. No, you don’t. /end ID]
i want to live every life, that’s my problem. well, that’s my second choice. there’s a specific life i want to live but i’m being told i can’t have it. so as a replacement i just want to live out every possibility. if i can’t have the thing i want, then novelty can be the next best thing.
i feel like i make honest mistakes trying to do the right thing and live the best way i can, and then suffer consequences that are way too large and permanent by scale
there IS such a thing as cruel and unusual punishment
this is probably the best take I’ve heard so far on the debate of people being told that they aren’t having enough ‘compassion’ for billionaires making bad decisions and paying the obvious consequences for it
wait a minute! this isn't women's professional wresting! this is lesbian sex!
“My favorite means of communication is otherworldly: dreams—meeting in dreams.”
— Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak , (A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva)