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I was at a Roy Lichtenstein exhibit, and I realized that his paintings are much more entertaining when read in Lumpy Space Princess’ voice. And then, of course, I had to make some fan art.
I call it Lumpenstein.
This is a really HUGE breakthrough for the Romanovs. I’m actually shaking as I read this article. I have posted about this previously, but the site has since been updated.
The SEARCH foundation is an independently funded organization that was responsible for the discovery and excavation of Alexei and Anastasia’s remains. Now they have a lead on Michael’s.
In 1918, the Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich and his secretary, Brian Johnson were arrested by Soviet forces and imprisoned, not unlike many other Romanovs, in the city of Perm. His captor was Bolshevik Andrey Markov, who burst into Michael’s hotel room and forced him to leave by gunpoint. Markov told Michael he was being taken to a train, by which the Grand Duke did not resist. But the Bolshevik led them out ‘by a shortcut’ through the forest, and both Michael and Brian were shot in the chest and head. Local peasants heard the gunshot, and by the time they arrived the shooter had disappeared. But it did not take them long to find the bodies. The peasants respectively buried the two men under the trees, into which they scratched the letters “M” and “A” Michael Alexandrovich.
In 2007, a man recorded in an interview with Russian press reveiling a story he had kept through communist rule. On the night of the 11 June, 1918, he had been amongst the villagers who had come across two men’s bodies in the forest. He died soon after but his story has helped reveal one of the final mysteries of the Romanov family.And in 2012, the murder site was located. The SEARCH foundation followed the directions given by the man and found the precise spot where there were engravings upon the trees. Unfortunately the weather soon turned characteristically harsh and they were forced to give up their search. But the website says that the organization will be returning in the summer of 2013.
I personally, will keep my eye on this. Soon we may have Uncle Misha reunited with us, and his dear family once again.
Wow I had no idea this was going on :O this is incredible!
Good news!!!!
Fall of the Titans. 1635-37. Guido Reni. Italian. 1575-1642. oil on canvas.
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I work where creativity happens. Often there is only a sales associate and manager on the floor. Often I am that sales associate and at times I get bombarded with demanding, rude, insulting customers when my manager is nowhere to be found. I have spoken to management about my social anxiety and how stressful it is, but they don’t seem to care. I have requested to be scheduled for more early morning stock shifts or to be a part of the detail team, but my manager acts like she doesn’t have the payroll to do so. I told her I didn’t expect those shifts in addition to my current shifts, but just to maybe schedule me on the floor two days a week and detail team two days a week. She actually acted like that thought hadn’t crossed her mind. >_> Really? This isn’t complicated stuff here. At this point I am only working here to pay my bills and hit my two-year part time mark so my partner and I can buy a house. After that I’m hitting the wanted ads hardcore.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/62bd7b2049dfb5291c52bbe0c94288ed/tumblr_mn5islAvoQ1qm3qzeo1_500.jpg)
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Bottom text: “Perpetual high blood pressure”
I work where creativity happens. Often there is only a sales associate and manager on the floor. Often I am that sales associate and at times I get bombarded with demanding, rude, insulting customers when my manager is nowhere to be found. I have spoken to management about my social anxiety and how stressful it is, but they don’t seem to care. I have requested to be scheduled for more early morning stock shifts or to be a part of the detail team, but my manager acts like she doesn’t have the payroll to do so. I told her I didn’t expect those shifts in addition to my current shifts, but just to maybe schedule me on the floor two days a week and detail team two days a week. She actually acted like that thought hadn’t crossed her mind. >_> Really? This isn’t complicated stuff here. At this point I am only working here to pay my bills and hit my two-year part time mark so my partner and I can buy a house. After that I’m hitting the wanted ads hardcore.
Neanderthal culture: Old masters
The earliest known cave paintings fuel arguments about whether Neanderthals were the mental equals of modern humans.
Tim Appenzeller | NATURE
In a damp Spanish cave, Alistair Pike applies a small grinder to the world’s oldest known paintings. Every few minutes, the dentist-drill sound stops and Pike, an archaeologist from the University of Southampton, UK, stands aside so that a party of tourists can admire the simple artwork — hazy red disks, stencilled handprints, the outlines of bison — daubed on the cave wall tens of thousands of years ago. He hopes that the visitors won’t notice the small scuff marks he has left.
In fact, Pike’s grinder — and the scalpel that he wields to scrape off tiny samples — is doing no harm to the actual paintings, and he is working with the full approval of the Spanish authorities. Pike is after the crust of calcite that has built up over the millennia from groundwater dripping down the wall. The white flecks that he dislodges hold a smattering of uranium atoms, whose decay acts as a radioactive clock. A clock that has been ticking ever since the calcite formed on top of the art.
The results of an earlier round of sampling in El Castillo cave, published last June1, showed that the oldest of the paintings, a simple red spot, dates to at least 40,800 years ago, roughly when the first modern humans reached western Europe. Pike and his colleagues think that when they analyse the latest samples, the paintings may turn out to be older still, perhaps by thousands of years — too old to have been made by modern humans. If so, the artists must have been Neanderthals, the brawny, archaic people who were already living in Europe.
The answer won’t be known for at least a year, but if it favours the Neanderthals, it could tip — if not resolve — a debate that has rumbled for decades: did the Neanderthals, once caricatured as brute cavemen, have minds like our own, capable of abstract thinking, symbolism and even art? It is one of the most haunting questions about the people who once shared a continent with us, then mysteriously vanished.
[Photo: Pedro Saura]
This incredible pattern on the sea bottom was made by a tiny puffer male fish to attract a female. The circle is approximately 2m in diameter. Scientists still researching this behavior.
The first two pages from my upcoming comic Horus Story, the very true story of Horus’ birth according to Egyptian legend.
AAAAAHHH LITTLE SET AHAHHAH
Laughing entirely too hard oh my god
“I really want that box”
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