— Musings About The Moon (dedicated To Our Moon)

discus feesh

Cats and their rodent admirers. Simplicissimus. July 18, 1896. Cover art.

Internet Archive

that article about interpretation / description has gotten this piece stuck in my head. YOU SIR ARE A SPACE TOO

love it when people are just a little bit unraveled. hair wisps flying everywhere, wrinkles in yesterday's t-shirt, pockets reserved for useless things only. fingers kissed blue from the last pen that fell in love with you. laugh on the wrong side of raw. smile on the right side of bizarre. bright eyes smeared kohl dark, hungry mouth stained lollipop red. messy messy messy messy. you are blurry like the edges of my favorite old photograph. each second you're born anew. you are beautiful and terrible and the most irreplaceable part of living and i could love you forever and ever and ever

→ the map is not the thing mapped

1. Eric Temple Bell, Numerology (1933) 2. Alfred Korzybski, “A Non-Aristotelian System and Its Necessity for Rigour in Mathematics and Physics” in Science and Sanity (1933) 3. Jorge Luis Borges, “On Exactitude in Science” (1946) in Collected Fictions (trans. Andrew Hurley) 4.Mark S. Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps (1991) 5. xkcd, “Map Projections” 6. Paul B. Anderson, “Distortion On Map Projections Using Gedymin Profiles” (2009) 7. Jakub Nowosad, “Proportions of apparent size and real size (animated)” [relationship between the Mercator projection and the actual relative size of each country] (2018) 8. Tissot’s Indicatrices visualizing the distortion between the world as a 3D sphere (where the indicatrices are all identical circles) and a 2D projection of its surface (i.e. onto the Mercator projection) 9. Raymond B. Craib, “Cartography and Decolonization” in Decolonizing the Map ed. James R. Akerman (2017) 10. The West Wing 2.16 - “Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail” (2001) 11. Matthew H. Edney, Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 (1997) 12. J. B. Harley, “Deconstructing the Map” (1990), Cartographica 26(2): 1-20 13. Apoorva Tadepalli, “Colonial Cartography: The more personal maps become, the more intimately we accept their imperialistic ideology,” Real Life magazine (2019) 14. Jeff VanderMeer’s annotations on his book Annihilation (2014) 15. Lindsay Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings (2019)

Moon rise by Phyllis Shafer (born 1958).

John Brosio (American, b. 1967)

The Night hunt, 2013

Oil On Canvas

Superhero concept where a hero can split their superpowered bodily systems apart and form a team.