I'm having so much fun making these bowls 🌿
Alright, hear me out
Behold, a sword
Hilt? ✅
Guard? ✅
Used for cutting? ✅
Infinitely long blade? ✅
Pawttery (via thegatheringinrogers)
He’s helping.
I’m a cat enthusiast and i can tell you, the kitty is actually trying to help! (or just trying to figure out what humane is doing by also touching it)
Cats like to mimic what other members if their cat groups are doing. In human enviroments, this translates to cats following humans (who they see as part of their group) and trying to mimic activities they are doing.
Human sits on couch? Cat sit with them! Human reading or on their computer? Cat go after human and sprawl over them or the keyboard because cat do the same! Human eating? Cat also want eat! Human touch spining clay and make weird shapes? Cat also do that! Cat help!
I couldn’t find Mittens but I could hear her meowing so I was afraid she was stuck somewhere but no. She was sitting on the Keurig again
She’s singing her Coffee Song. The song she sings when she sits on Coffee machines.
What I love about this is seeing that he’s clearly a hockey skater. Now, I don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to cold slippy antics, but what I notice is different between hockey skaters and nearly all other skaters is that hockey skaters essentially run on the ice. Any other skater is trying to glide, perform, or be otherwise smooth. Create a new type of mobility, but on ice. But hockey skaters? The floor is slippery but that’s why they’ve got knives on their feet, so it’s running time. Run run run run.
So this is like playing tag on ice, except the one guy you’re trying to get is magically not on ice. And I think that’s pretty neat.
He’s also making really good use of the stoppers on the front of his skates. You can clearly see several times that when he starts juking and running he’s not actually running with the wheels in contact with the ground – he’s tipped forward to run on the rubber stoppers, which will give him more traction on the slippery surface. He can change direction faster because none of his kinetic energy is going into countering the inertia of spinning wheels.
I don’t know if the picks on the front of ice skates are used similarly (because ice hockey is not so much of a national pastime in Australia) but I wouldn’t be surprised. But I spent a bit of time with a roller derby team, and I recognised that particular stopper run :)
I’m impressed, as a former figure skater (ice skating) who’s also been rollerblading, but for a different reason. Because while these two sports are similar, they are not exactly alike, and once I started ice skating a lot, the next time I went to a roller rink, i actually lost some of my skills. The friction isn’t the same at all when you’re maneuvering at speed, the contact surface of the wheels is different, and those rubber stops can actually stop you faster and yet contradictorily slower than the toepicks on ice skating blades.
Why? Because rubber toestops on a polished floor grab completely differently than toepicks on ice.
The ice gives, while the floor does not. It crushes, it gouges, it releases because it breaks. It can even do so in layers, depending on how fresh the ice is from when the zamboni last ran over it, and if it’s been a while, there are pits and gouges to look out for, but it’s easier to stop on rough ice than it is on smooth ice. (A roller rink floor, however…if it’s pitted and gouged, well, it needs immediate repair and should not be used, lol.)
On the other hand, the toepick does not give because it is solid metal, while the toestop wiggles from bending (even if only ever so slightly), bending and giving at a different rate and in different ways than ice.
And yes, it does matter whether it’s the toe device on your boot that’s giving and the floor is not, or the surface underneath your feet that’s giving and your footwear is not. Just like the differences in the widths of the contact surfaces make a difference, too.
Lastly, no matter how polished the floor of a roller rink, if you hit the floor at speed, you are not going to go sliding like you would on an ice rink. That guy is pretty brave as well as skilled, leaping and dodging like that, and doing it in shorts. Even if the floor is smooth, he’s going to pick up a different set of bruises, and possibly tear his skin. (Which doesn’t happen on ice unless it’s really rough and desperately in need of smoothing again.)
This is all I’ve done so far! I cringed at the idea of doing a comparison because my own art looks terrible when compared to the original masterpieces, but since others have done it I figured I may as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The most fun part about doing these pieces is that I feel I’m exploring the original painters’ mind a little. And hopefully learning something from them in the process! :P
haven’t seen this on tumblr yet, and tis the season
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driver, muttering: god damnit, it’s paul.
driver, at full volume: mornin’ paul!
paul, cheerfully: the world will be reduced to ash!
driver, muttering again: jesus christ that guy creeps me out.
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[additionally the driver is brian david gilbert, paul is a skeleton sitting on a bench with its arm sticking in the air, and the voice of paul is also brian david gilbert]
HIS DAD IS A DITTO
I AM NOT OKAY
*SOBS*
My heart
Viviabisvisbibi OMG……… MY HEART
