Dan Powell

things that amuse me and, occasionally, things I made — pretty random on the whole

[Dan Powell @husdant]

This shot is a wonder. I’m just going to watch it loop for the rest of the afternoon.

[Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs]

Buster Keaton's Day Dreams was released 100 years ago today, on Nov. 19, 1922

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

US governors by eye color

[Jocelyn Anderson Photography @JocAPhotography]

Check out the feet of the American Coot! Coots have lobed toes that work great for getting around in water and on land.

[Neil Gaiman @neilhimself]

The rumours are true. Netflix is thrilled that so many of you have been watching Sandman, and the thing we were all hoping would happen... has indeed happened...

[Dan Powell @husdant]

Hell yes!!! Put the cabbage back into Halloween!

[Weird Christmas @weird_christmas]

Angelic Halloween butterfly fairy nuts!

[Jocelyn Anderson Photography @JocAPhotography]

A male Common Grackle showing his beautiful range of colors.

[Midwest Modern @JoshLipnik]

Art Deco Lettering of Cincinnati

[Dan Powell @husdant]

@AaronMeyers Did not know Kelly Freas did Mad magazine covers.

[Jocelyn Anderson Photography @JocAPhotography]

A female Wood Duck (left with the white eyeliner) and a male Wood Duck who is molting into his brightly colored look. During the summer Wood Duck males molt into less colorful attire as to help protect them from predators. Come Fall it's time to get fancy again.

[𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓳𝓾 @shr_sanju]

Family photography

[Midwest Modern @JoshLipnik]

The Cherry Hut 🍒
Beulah, MI

[Dan Powell @husdant]

An intriguing list of animation in this thread…

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Michelangelo's David was unveiled on this day in 1504.

For 418 years it has been one of the most famous statues in the world.

But why? What's so special about David?

[Ancient Origins @ancientorigins]

These mugs are 3,700 years old. From the Minoan civilisation. Heraklion Museum, Crete, Greece.

https://t.co/em60taJgKH

[Incunabula @incunabula]

Henrique Alvim-Corrêa (1876-1910), a Brazilian artist living in Belgium, read HG Wells' The War of the Worlds in 1903 and was so moved by the novel that he began to illustrate the work uncommissioned. In 1905 he travelled to London in order to present his work to Wells. 1/

[Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery]

A Fox disguised as a Buddhist nun
(Tsuri gitsune)
Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831-1889)
ca.1860-90

[Dan Powell @husdant]

Finally! An e-sport I don’t need a fellow kid to explain to me like I’m the idiot I am!
Is this still going on?
Does ESPN2 have one of those trial subscriptions I can cancel before I have to pay?

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

1941 Warner Brothers Studio Cafe menu: