penfairy:

one thing me n my art loving gf would do is visit galleries and play a game called “root, loot or boot” 

the gist is that you would look at a group of paintings in a room and decide which figure in the painting you’d root (fuck, in Australian slang), which painting you’d loot (steal and put on your wall at home) and which painting you’d boot (punt into the garbage because it’s shit and Not Art)

a couple of things about my experiences:

1. this game is a lot more fun if you’re attracted to women because there’s so many Hot Gals to choose from 

2. if you are attracted to men, you will spend a lot of time going “well, looks like I’ll have to pick jesus again” as my bi gf did

3. it gets more complicated in modern art museums and you find yourself having saying, “I’d fuck the rhombus” “you CAN’T fuck the rhombus” “then I’ll fuck that blue squiggle thing. what’s it called?” “creeping existential dread in blue” “then does that mean I’m fucking the squiggle or am I getting fucked by the existential dread it represents?” “aren’t we all already getting fucked by existential dread?”

4. if you play this with an art history nerd, they may decide to kill you over one of your “boot” choices

5. you will get Disapproving Looks from other patrons who overhear your heated debates

6. it’s also the best fun you’ll ever have in an art gallery

@punguinpower this sounds like fun

London’s amazing underground infrastructure revealed in vintage cutaway maps

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

mostlysignssomeportents:

Londonist’s roundup of cutaway maps – many from the outstanding Transport Museum in Covent Garden – combines the nerdy excitement of hidden tunnels with the aesthetic pleasure of isomorophic cutaway art, along with some interesting commentary on both the development of subterranean tunnels and works and the history of representing the built environment underground in two-dimension artwork.

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/08/2-5d-ftw.html

So…very…shiny…

meantoys:

the-mighty-python:

windforge:

cuttleskulls:

william-snekspeare:

hyposensitivity:

people who are afraid of snakes are fuckin’ WILD, like dude, just carefully step over these fat babies’ sausage bodies and gently move the burmese python chillin’ against the door, then you become unfathomably rich. i would do this for $10. i would do this for FREE. 

I would pay $10 to do this

GG EZ

[Patreon]

me

exactly!

Snakes that large are actually incredibly lethargic most of the time.  Even if they haven’t eaten, they know they can’t eat you, just don’t hurt them and they pretty much don’t give a damn.

Dude, I don’t like snakes – I have a healthy respect for predators that large – but forserious, if you’re chill, most animals won’t give a fuck.

And that’s a LOT of money, too. A few non-venomous snakes? pfffft.

turningpointsinwomenshistory:

Check out these female artists, now in their 70s, 80s, and 90s that we should have known about a looong time ago. Behold their artistic works. 

Starting from the top row, going left to right

Carmen Herrera: The 99 year old is known for her abstract geometric style 

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Agnes Denes: At 83 years, Denes is known for her works which integrate philosophy, math, science, and map projections. 

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Dorothea Rockburne: After getting her start in mathematics, Rockburne discovered a unique expression on geometric abstraction. 

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Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Iranian artist mixes Persian geometric with Abstract Expressionism

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Lorraine O’Grady: The rock critic turned artist 

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Etel Adnan: The artist with small, but powerful abstract works

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Joan Semmel: An artist of figuration, beautifully capturing human nudity 

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Rosalyn Drexler: Known for her brightly colored, cartoon/film-noir paintings

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Judith Bernstein: Best known for her in-you-face approach to gender politics

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Faith Ringgold: An artist of “story quilts”

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Michelle Stuart: A earth artist who creates land-art based work