This land is my home—I feel it, somehow, in my bones.
#secretorigins #blackcondor #newyorkcity
#statueofliberty #home #patriotic #cominghome
#originstory #datass #roythomas #murphyanderson
#dccomics #comicspanel https://instagr.am/p/CQujOJ6skZB/
The ‘Mostro’ at Bomarzo, 1949
THE PARK OF THE MONSTERS, or “Parco dei Mostri,” in the Garden of Bomarzo was not meant to be pretty. Commissioned in 1552 by Prince Pier Francesco Orsini, it was an expression of grief designed to shock.
#sheep #shepherd #zardoz #sculpture #grief #monster #parcodeimostri https://instagr.am/p/CQuLz9MsMZ8/
Samurai facial armor (sōmen), mislabelled “executioner’s mask,” iron, 18th–19thcentury (?), London, Science Museum Group Collection, obj. no. A129822, The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum.
Two ‘executioner’s masks’ housed in the collection of the pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936) have recently been exposed as historiographical forgeries manufactured in the nineteenth-century.
Previously these objects were believed to have covered the face of the executioner during capital punishment, either to disguise his identity or to protect him from the ‘evil eye’ of the dead convict. In an article for History Today, Alison Kinney argued that such notions do not match with early modern written and visual documentation but rather with Victorian ‘gothic’ sensibilities.
#creativehistory #revisionisthistory
#mask #armor #samurai #face #executioner https://instagr.am/p/CQtNjsesUMK/
Metamorphosis. The American educator. v.2. 1924.
#butterfly #caterpillar #vintageillustration #encyclopedia
#lifecycle
https://bit.ly/2Ub7TZ4 https://instagr.am/p/CQsA1wUs9ZB/
Happy Monday! It’s a hot one, keep hydrated and cool!
#kangtheconqueror #weather #monday #summmer #hot #kang #comicpanel #classiccomics #heatwave #radiation https://instagr.am/p/CQq4LE6sJOT/
Fish & Boat, 1948, M.C. Escher
#escher #vintageillustration https://instagr.am/p/CQpOF3bsE9J/
#columbo #doctordoom #marvelcomics #marvelspotlight #issue1 #classictv #classiccomics #yeahidbuyone #peterfalk #victorvondoom https://instagr.am/p/CQoQwrpsqpi/
Hey, a friend of ours gave us a bobblehead of her! Karen is the first doll / toy we have of a person we know and currently socialize with on the regular. She will get a place of honor somewhere near Edgar Allan Poe and Count Chocula, I suspect. (unless she would rather hang out with Mothman and Bigfoot )
Grilled out with her, @maximillian_deersteak , Leslie and the Inlaws for a nice day of tasty corn on the cob, veggie burgers (the rest got ribs), cornbread, baked potatoes, and baked beans! The local farms don’t have 5hat quality corn just yet, so I suspect it was brought from the Carolinas. We don’t usually get good corn here until around July 4 via Swann Farms.
They all went on a walk by the bay, but my back is tricking up, so I remaing back here with Larry to post this and talk about trains, ships and history.
#bobblehead #karencorr #visiting #bbq #fatherinlaw #motherinlaw #spouse #friends #snooker #billiards #worldchampion https://instagr.am/p/CQmmp5isbTS/
Our first game of #smallworld in a few years and we are pretty well-matched. Next trick, drag Amy into the mix.
Also in the works, catan, potion explosion, carcassonne and pandemic
Any other android tablet compatible board games? I’m thinking galaxy trucker and seeing if I can find a version of m.u.l.e.
#smallworld #daysofwonder #asmodee https://instagr.am/p/CQkRvCAs0jB/
I think a spider is trying to hypnotize me with that webbed piece of bark. Silly spider! 🕸️ 🕷️ 👀⚡ 🧠
Must. Bring. Master. Bugs.
#swampwalk #spin #mesmerism #hypnosis #webspinner #walkies #walkabout #redwingedblackbird #birdsounds
Just found out that knitter friend Betty McGrane passed away earlier this week, succumbing after a heart attack and stroke. I regret not seeing her since before covid broke.
She was very kind to me and I didn’t mind helping her with tech support one bit. She was easy going and was always happy for the help. She had a running joke that if I ever tired of my wife that she was an old lady with a big pension.
We will miss you, Betty. https://instagr.am/p/CQhzKTOAjzF/
Ape army now has six fresh recruits in a rainbow of colors!
#rocomtoys #Glyos #onelldesign #modulartoys #toystagram #kickstarter #apes #apestogetherstrong #black #gold #white #green #pink #hotpink #orange #yeti #sasquatch #hominid #cryptid https://instagr.am/p/CQg2EONgGI7/
What if Ash Williams became Ghost Rider and tales of the gold monkey starred Congorilla and not a convicted child molester?
#armyofdarkness #evildead #ghostrider #spiritofvengeance
#goldmonkey #brassmonkey
#congorilla #ashwilliams #talesofthegoldmonkey #Glyos #rocomtoys #modulartoys #onelldesign #mightymaniax https://instagr.am/p/CQgs7I-AAxg/
Just arrived, Fishstik and associates!
#rocomtoys #glyos #mightymaniax #onelldesign #modulartoys #toystagram #creaturefromtheblacklagoon #gillman #fishstik https://instagr.am/p/CQgnKoKg9Ev/
#swampwalk Thursday morning sidebar from #sisto
#thankyou #giveahoot #dontpollute
