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The scene with Willow at the beginning is a parallel to the scene with Boscha in Wing It Like Witches. The scene at the end when Luz and Amity say what is a parallel to the scene with Amity and Boscha in Hooty's Moving Hassel. I just think they're neat callbacks.
I was walking around the neighborhood one day and suddenly came across this tree with a branch the formed a spiral
A solar halo is a ring of light that appears around the sun. It's caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in high, thin cirrus clouds.
hi here’s a cool bird I betcha didn’t know existed, ✨the wallcreeper✨
it literally looks like a monarch butterfly it’s so cute
Perfectly timed! Was thinking about getting a new one and these are beautiful! 💕
some heath phone backgrounds for u
like if u use!
really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:
The link between drawing and seeing in the brain
Drawing an object and naming it engages the brain in similar ways, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. The finding demonstrates the importance of the visual processing system for producing drawings of an object.
(Image caption: Brain activation patterns during object recognition and production. Credit: Fan et al., JNeurosci 2019)
In a study by Fan et al., healthy adults performed two tasks while the researchers recorded brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging: they identified pieces of furniture in pictures and produced drawings of those pieces of furniture. The researchers used machine learning to discover similar patterns of brain activity across both tasks within the occipital cortex, an area of the brain important for visual processing. This means people recruit the same neural representation of an object whether they are drawing it or seeing it.
As the participants drew each object multiple times, the activity patterns in occipital cortex remained unchanged, but the connection between occipital cortex and parietal cortex, an area involved in motor planning, grew more distinct. This suggests that drawing practice enhances how the brain shares information about an object between different regions over time.
I took this picture yesterday, but I love it. It's so cool that if you focus on one thing while taking a picture, it can change everything else. I focused on the sun and it made everything around it darker.
Atomization is the process of breaking a liquid into a spray of fine droplets. There are many methods to accomplish this, including jet impingement, pressure-driven nozzles, and ultrasonic excitement. In the images above, a drop has been atomized through vibration of the surface on which it rests. Check out the full video. As the amplitude of the surface’s vibration increases, the droplet shifts from rippling capillary waves to ejecting tiny droplets. With the right vibrational forcing, the entire droplet bursts into a fine spray, as seen in the photo above. The process is extremely quick, taking less than 0.4 seconds to atomize a 0.1 ml drop of water. (Photo and video credit: B. Vukasinovic et al.; source video)
Iconic American Landscape Photos, Recreated with Junk Food
For their project “Processed Views,” which is currently on view in the exhibit “Changing Circumstances” at the FotoFest 2016 Biennial, the collaborators Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman have produced cheeky dioramas that pull Carleton Watkins’s iconic images brashly into the industrial modern world. Using all manner of highly processed foods—Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Coca-Cola, marshmallows, fleshy stacks of bologna—they recreated the photographer’s famous landscapes from Yosemite and other California sites as garish candy lands.
See more from this processed-food world.
Slime mold was grown on an agar gel plate shaped like America and food sources were placed where America’s large cities are.
The result? A possible look at how to best build public transportation.
I just really like the idea of slime mold on a map of the US. It’s beautiful.
hi I dreamt up a story again.
It’s about three games. every 10 to 100 years a woman that is probably in some way related to God (JK JK but still she hella powerful) picks a mythology and a curtain number of teens to represent the counsel of that mythology, and has the representatives play these hunger games level versions of playground games (no one dies, well they do, but these games take place in the dream’s of the teens, and whatever skills they acquire in the dream stay with them IRL and they get no rest while in this dream because science) like hide and seek, tag, paintball/dodgeball, even mafia once (but like, the version where it’s cupid, guardian angle, and a tad more PG). one time (the time the story/dream takes place in) is during when the Greek mythology was chosen.
The dream/story takes place from the POV of the representative of Apollo. if the representatives die it’s them losing the game, and the god/goddess they represent has to spend the equivalent of the total sum of days until either everyone loses or the game is won as mortal (did that make any sense? no? say the representative of Aphrodite died on day 1th in the 20 day lasting 1st game, the 4th of the 6 day lasting 2nd game, and the entirety of the final game. the goddess herself would have to spend 20 days as a mortal).
The first game is selected as hide & seek, and everyone has to find a sage trapped throughout this legends of Zelda style map and free them in order to win. each time a sage is released it gives the representative of the equivalent god 1 or 2 powers they can use for the rest of the games, and even outside the games if they were to know how (which no one ever does). or at least, all sages must be freed it doesn’t really matter by who.
and because in this dream I was the representative of Apollo, this kid’s treating this whole thing like a video game, and knows how to survive in the wilderness, which is kinda where the hide & seek game takes place.
Of course I get all my Greek info from Uncle Rick so have fun.
THIS IS AMAZING !!!!!!! JUST. JUST WHY PEOPLE DIDN’T SEE IT!!!!!!????? UH! JUST LOOK AT THIS PRECIOUS BEAN !
I love drawing hands. I wish i had a lot of them. To do many things at a time :)