Kawase Hasui, one of Japan’s National Living Treasures, depicts an idyllic countryside untouched by modernisation in his woodblock print ‘View of Onsengadake Seen from Amakusa’ (1922), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Don't know whether Aquatic Ape hypothesis (AAT) is right or not, but having read Langdon (1997) and Rafferty (2023), I'm astounded at how they travesty the AAT people's arguments. Quality of the argumentation is astoundingly poor.

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Ginkakuji Temple in Snow, by Asano Takeji, early 1930s

NASA Astronaut on ISS caught this sprite over Mexico and the U.S., this morning 📸 NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers

Birds in Mughal art are some of the most beautiful things ever.

The Washington Monument on the Potomac River - Kawase Hasui, 1935

Charles E. Burchfield, Moon through Young Sunflowers, 1916

Art Deco Ingrid perfume bottle made of malachite glass by Riedel Glassworks, depicting a nude figure beneath a waterfall, Bohemia, Czech Republic, 1930s.

Gathering Storm #artbots #shishkin

Tap, hold and load in 4K

Three Sisters, by Yamakawa Shuho, 1936

Soviet spaceflight navigation computers were so cool. This is the Globus INK. Analog orbital gear is peak humanity.

The forests of Ivan Shishkin (1831–1898)

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each autumn equinox by sharing a small poem, one of my favorites since childhood. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose marking twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons . #everynightapoem

At what point did Stanley Kubrick's filmography become a common focal point for the unhinged?