Cuttlefish

Pfeffer's Flamboyant cuttlefish is poisonous, little larger than a golfball, and is found along the barren underwater plains of the Indo-pacific.  While we can see that it is an interesting creature, as far as sealife goes it first appears relatively standard in its weirdness.  What is most unexpected about the flamboyant cuttlefish, though, is found in the way it gets around.  Over millions of years it has lost most of its ability to swim about like its cephalopod relatives the squid and nautilus, instead it trudges across the sea floor, pulling itself along using four areas of its fluttery fin .  This gives it an extraordinary resemblance with a four-legged land animal, and is very curious to see on the ocean floor.

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Not the titties!

Tattoos: I have them and love them. You probably have one, yourself. Of all types of tattoos, there are two kinds that are particularly tragic: poor quality tattoos and the dreaded titty tats...

This gal is lovely-ish. I like her bangs. I like her eyes. I don't know what to say after that. She has "dimples" my very least favorite piercing of all time. Here, I begin to sound like my mother, "why would such a beautiful girl punch holes in her face!?" I love lots of facial piercings, this is just not one of them. This brings me to the chest piece. My fiance, personally, hates chest pieces on the ladies.He'll say, "Somebody, PLEASE think about the TITTIES!" The decolletage is so nice and part of what makes a gal feminine and soft, so he's just not a fan of covering that area with shit.

This one is a little different. Regardless of the content, some of this girl is still visible. Martha says it's "a good thing." Just don't cover it all up, pretty ladies.

Anime titties. Where to begin? Although I have many tattoos in various locales, this is not my first choice. A) I have beautiful implants which I waited years for and prefer not to destroy and B) If you want to talk noise about my body and tattoos sagging, at least they aren't on the boobs which we all know end up tragically droopy. As much as I love gothic lolita, there is no room for cartoons on my body. Period. Someday, I will be old, and I'd like to think that my tattoos won't look childish.  So much for this sweet girl...

However, there are far more terrible things to permanently ink onto your coveted breasts:

I want to know how this ever made sense as a great idea. If you didn't want me to look at and be attracted to your breasts, you win!

When I see macabre tattoos like this, I wonder what this woman's future children will think. Enjoy looking at that while you breastfeed, little Bracklynn.

A true nerd might really get off on this pair. He can have hetero and homo sex at the same time. If he doesn't like this chick, he can get lost looking deeply into Spock's eyes. I don't know who the other guy is, and I'm not sorry.

Once again, she really wants you to look at her face instead.

Hey, I've got the most awesomely rad idea! Cover every single inch of your lovely lady lumps with Celtic nature crap. Who wants to see boos when you could see a squirrel instead?

Are you ready? It only gets weirder.

I guess this is supposed to be the "slave Leia" look from Star Wars.  It's pretty much the pinnacle of nerd fantasy, but this is COMMITMENT!  How does this heal? Last I checked, women hate painful, swollen breasts. This girl was willing to sacrifice that and show her unending respect for George Lucas. I will say, she'll be a huge hit at the Star Wars convention, but then again, any decent-looking female is a big hit at Star Wars conventions.

OH GAWD! This one looks fresh with the swelling and ointment. This hurts my titties just thinking about it.

And last but not least, the lamest of them all.

I have no words.

Princessification

Growing up as a little girl in America, I managed to keep towards the toy spider and rubber snakes end of the toy spectrum.  Now that I have entered into womanhood, however, I have a new-found fervor for all things overly decadent and super-saturated.  

For its 25th anniversary, My Little Pony is celebrating with 25 designer MLP's.  Take a look-see: http://www.themylittleponyproject.com/

Designer weapons by Peter Gronquist.

 

Works in weaponry by artist Peter Gronquist.

Nat Sherman "Fantasia" beautiful brightly colored cigarettes could be yours for a mere $60.

This several thousand dollar gold-plated pram insures your offspring will be promenade in style, for the few months before they outgrow it.





 

Monotypes are a slow printmaking technique that I have been enjoying immensely.  This is the first one I made this semester, with obvious registration flaws - easily fixed by implementing a proper template - and could certainly be less smeary but I liked making it nonetheless.

Jolanta Umecka

There was a time in my life when I abhorred to watch movies in black and white.  For some reason, nothing seemed less stimulating.  Recently, though, I've been plundering my university's video library for every film I can get my hands on belonging to the Criterion Collection.  It is a pretty safe bet that anything from this impressive list will at the very least interest you imensely, if it doesn't completely confound you and leave you with a new view of the world.  One of my most recent films consumed has been Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water, a stirring and tense picture with unexpected turns and riveting character arcs.  The narrative takes place almost exclusively in the close quarters of a sailboat, between the couple who owns the craft (Leon Niemczyk and the Jolanta Umecka, who is beautiful in cat-eye specs) and a young stranger they pick up (Zigmunt Malinowicz).  Said film is in black and white, as are many members of the Criterion Collection, and I have become to revere it as an extremely elegant quality in a movie, and Knife in the water is no exception.  

 

 

Cigs

Pangolin Tray

Cary Grant with beam

Pinup, Hunt.

Plus de Cozies

Flower Stencil

M I S C E L L A N E O U S

Chart of hair loss patterns

Prevost's Squirrel, in technicolor.

Velasquez

Exotic piglets

Seabisquit

Tangles

Duck Systems

King Charles Spaniel

vs nature

Immensely prolific artist Walton Ford has created some of the most beautiful and stirring naturalist images of the late 20th century, perhaps even more so than John James Audubon. Based in Massachusets, Ford's pieces are vast, beautifully executed watercolors depicting striking and violent scenes in nature.