T A L E N T

🦊🥷 Retired Melee not-quite-professional 2011-2025

[T A L E N T @TalentSSBM]

yall motherfuckers complain about your controllers all the time but then want to ban the one controller we have that is not capable of misinputting LOL

[iftymonkin @niftymonkee]

hymn for low water

[MR. OBVIOUS @ObviousRises]

The wrong person was shot that day.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is not a photograph, and it's not an oil painting. It might be the most unbelievable watercolor ever made...

It's called Sommarnöje, which means something like Summer Delight, and Anders Zorn painted it in 1886. Look at the water, the gentle ripples, the reflections, the wet sheen of it, and then look at the two people, the fine detail of the wooden rowboat, the woman's white dress, the light on her face.

It has the near-photographic realism of an oil painting, and it was done in watercolor, a medium so unforgiving that a single wrong stroke ruins the entire piece.

Zorn painted this in the first summer of his marriage: the woman in white waiting on the pier is his new wife, Emma, whom he had married only months before. They had just come back from their honeymoon and were staying with her family at Dalarö near Stockholm, still looking for the home where they would spend their life. The man rowing toward her is their friend Carl Gustav Dahlström. It is a real moment from the happiest season of a young couple's life, caught and held forever.

In 2010 this single sheet of watercolor sold for twenty-six million Swedish kronor, over three million dollars, the highest price ever paid for a Swedish painting.

In his own lifetime, Zorn was celebrated above all for two things: his handling of light, and his ability to paint water. Sommarnöje is where you see exactly why...

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: Senior citizens officially outnumber young children worldwide for the first time in human history.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

the motor protein that transports substances inside cells, is so cute.

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

One of my favourite paintings tout court: 'Nightly Walk of the Monks to Mount Athos' (1905), which is considered the last painting of the great and yet almost unknown painter, Hermann David Salomon Corrodi

[𝖝𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖊 🪐 @xeriesjame_art]

Solitary beneath the rain

[Justus @JustusXYZ]

The fact that he became a top 5 player with a mid tier while practicing on this ISO is unbelievable

[♡ @ArtCelineLove]

semtember 1st

[2022 Heisman Winner @vj_v_]

I have yet to see Lebron do this

[Kipling @sergeantkipling]

My most relatable comic yet

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

'The General Zapped an Angel' (1970) by Dutch-Italian artist Karel Thole

[Robi Chuit Roganovich @robichuit]

Sigue siendo la mejor pieza de literatura colectiva de la historia del internet