The Mighty Caz

Missale et horae ad usum fratrum minorum. Milan, c.1385-1390.

North Grimston Iron Age Sword Hilt, Hull and East Riding Museum of Archaeology, Hull

Glen Coe, Black Rock Cottage. Photo - Gary Hook

Now that finals are over, I can start posting again!

Here's another beast, and my first attempt at painting one of my sculptures. I also tried to put more details than I usually do, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

Art by • Unpeace

Elephant, detail of the 6th century mosaic floor from the Palatium Magnum (Constantinople’s Great Palace), Istanbul.

A beautiful and intact 13th century church at Gumfreston, south Wales (with a later medieval tower).

Light & Smoke

Southwold, England

Mood.

It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:

It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.

wdym you can hear it?

Basically, it’s a form of synesthesia, movement-hearing. In this case, you expect to hear a thud, so you do. It’s estimated that 20% of people experience this type of synesthesia, as opposed to 2-4% for other kinds.

YO what the FUXK

The longer you watch it the more you get convinced that you can hear a  distant thud and the air displace.

I heard the thud. I closed my eyes and the thud stopped. I opened my eyes and I heard the thud. My goodness but human brains are a mess.

This was easily the first ever viral post on Tumblr back in 2011/12. Perhaps even before the great “what your leg feels like after falling asleep” followed by a picture of a static teevee channel.

Shout out to the original artist https://happytoast.co.uk/