This image was inspired by Platitude of the Day and this post in particular. There was something amusing about the idea of a Celestial Teapot. As well this image I created and a-teapostist image here.

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Mugs are available from my Zazzle Shop.

The full moon.

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Stylish merchandise for TintinMovie.org. Taking inspiration from the cover of Tintin in Tibet, probably the best of the Tintin books, you can show your support for Tintin Movie.org with these T-Shirts, Mugs and Icons.

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Sandbanks on the Loire by Swiss painter and graphic artist Felix Vallotton. Developing an interest in woodcuts thanks to a exhibition of Japanese art, Vallotton develop stark techniques with large areas of solid black or white. Later he concentrated on painting that tended towards stark realism but this painting from two years before his death points towards the pittura metafisica (Metaphysical art) movement.

My reworking of Sandbanks on the Loite is an experiment in using flat planes of colour to capture the otherworldliness of Vallotton’s original.

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Ten things you didn’t know about Macaroni Penguins.


1. They live on the Falkand Islands

2. The eat squid and krill but not pasta

3. Their name comes from Macaroni meaning dandy or fop. e.g. “He stuck a feather in his cap and calls it Macaroni”

4. Macaroni Penguins are the 4th most searched for penguin on Google, after the Emperor, King and Adelie penguins

5. Macaroni Penguins are closely related to the Royal Penguin but they only occasionally exchange Christmas Cards

6. In a popular vote, the Macaroni Penguins selected The Clash as the greatest ever rock band

7. On average, 12 penguins a year die in sex games

8. During the long, dark winter months, Macaroni Penguins come up with plans to give those stuck-up Emperor Penguins a good kicking

9. No one has ever choked to death whilst eating a Macaroni Penguin

10. The three biggest causes of death amongst young Macaroni Penguins are Smoking, Syphilis and Drive-by shootings

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Very little is known about the strange Long-eared jerboa. It is only a few centimeters tall, hops like a kangroo, has a tail 3 times the size of its body and has that some of the largest ears relative to size. Like many other creatures today, it is in danger as its habitat on the barren steppes of Mongolia is under threat. Recently, Jonathan Baillie of Evolutionary Distinct & Globally Endangered (EDGE) foundation was able to film these creatures for the first. You can see the amazing footage here.

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What happens when two of the most important images of the 20th Century collide? Duchamp’s Fountain challenged the very nature of art and introduced the idea of conceptual art. Magritte’s The Treachery of Images is a surrealist masterpiece that explores the different between what is real and what is art. The Treachery of Urinals is an art mash-up that brings these two seminal pieces together.

The text, Ceci n’est pas un fontaine (This is not a Fountain), questions what the image is. In Magritte’s original Treachery, the pipe was not a pipe, it was a picture of a pipe. However Duchamp’s Fountain was not a fountain but a urinal that was turned onto its side and called a fountain. So not only is it not a fountain but an image of a fountain but the it not an image of a fountain either.
See also The Treachery of Popes

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