Anime artists use many distinct visual styles.
I know this won’t change anything I just wanted to throw it out here.
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Anime artists use many distinct visual styles.
I know this won’t change anything I just wanted to throw it out here.
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sad cute sad cute sad cute sad
f e e l i n g s
Okay, this is cute
-ALL THE FEELS-
In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.
The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat.
The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy.
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She’s a good girl.
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This awesome creature (yes, this really is a living thing, not a piece of candy or glass) is a Jewel Caterpillar (Acraga coa) spotted by naturalist and photographer Gerardo Aizpuru near Cancun, Mexico. No word if it tastes like a gummi worm, but we’ll let you take the first bite. Here’s Gerardo’s own description:
“Photo take in a mangrove area , found this Stoning translucent caterpillar lay on a Red Mangrove tree leaf this morning early. Just can believe there is some species like this around the world. looks like made of glass whit small red mushroom inside every pic. about 3 cm long.”The bottom image, as you might’ve surmised, shows the bright and impressively furry moth that this wicked little caterpillar eventually becomes. Transforming from one sort of awesome creature into another different, but still entirely awesome, creature? We’re seriously impressed.
(Bottom photo taken by David Brownell)
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A CalArts student, Eusong Lee directed this amazing student film.
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Two topics I am interested in are 19th - early 20th century Siam/Thailand and gender dissimulation.
This photographic image from 1900 shows a Siamese woman in traditional dress. She is wearing a loincloth, known as sarong or chongkraben in Thai. This covers the waist to the knees, and is formed with a length of cloth wrapped around the waist and thighs which is then passed through the legs before being secured. She also has the sides of her head shaved, leaving only a topknot and two locks in front of her ears. There is a cord around her shoulder that is looped round her torso, but otherwise her upper body is completely bare, leaving her breasts completely uncovered. Men would also present themselves in a similar way - bare chested, loincloth only, partially shaved head. (Unfortunately I cannot readily find information on Thai non-binary identities and presentation with my limited resources, which makes me sad and frustrated.)
Please observe the next image:
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Dating from several decades later, between 1935 - 1945, it is a poster which shows proper Thai dress, as circumscribed by Marshal Plaek Pibulsonggram. He issued a series of Thai cultural mandates (many of which are still de facto in effect today) that described appropriately civilised behaviour as befitting Thai citizens.
The left hand side shows inappropriate dress, which are described in text below the picture. Examples of dress, grooming, and carriage now deemed uncouth include:
- Wearing a sarong
- Sporting a completely bare torso
- Having a shaved head
- Wearing an “Indian hat” or head covering/wrapping.
- Binding one’s chest or wearing only undergarments to partially conceal one’s upper body
- Carrying loads upon one’s head
Dress and comportment considered acceptable were as follows:
- Wearing uniforms;
- “International style” attire
- ‘Polite’ versions of traditional dress, such as pha sin/pha toong
- Wearing longer hair
- Ensuring they wear presentable garments which are clean and neat
These orders were applicable to everyone.
Notice that they clearly erase any ethnic and cultural markers (indeed, the mandates explictly erased all identities and referred to all Thailanders as “Thai”) and, returning to the topic at hand, dissimulated gender by prescribing hair and dress according to norms which could perhaps be described as recognisably Euro-American.
One day I will do more research on why and how this came about, &c.
Ahhh oh my god this is so amazing and i want to know so much more about it.
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