[CGI creations by FableArtsCo found here.]
Victorian Vampire Sorority
[CGI creations by FableArtsCo found here.]
Tag: photography
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Skokiaan, Louis Armstrong (1955)
“Skokiaan” is an illegal self-made alcoholic beverage in Zimbabwe.
From Crime in South Africa, L.F. Freed (1960): “Isikoivane (skokiaan) appears to be a general term used for all drinks other than the traditional beer sold in municipal beer halls. But these drinks are sheer poison in that they are mixed with blue stone (copper sulphate), tobacco juice, dagga, methylated spirits, snakes, carbide, rats, beetles – anything to give a kick and a bite.”
Jaw jammer [via Thompson, blog].
Knit Bone Kitty [via Everlasting Blört].
The Bizarre Ways Cephalopods Make Bebes.
The Worm With 100 Butts [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: 2nd place winner of the 2026 Dog Photography Awards, Studio Category. This one and others found at My OBT.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Stops Along the Way
Artist Jennifer Bolande created Visible Distance / Second Sight for the 2017 Desert X biennial exhibition in the Coachella Valley:
“In a cinematic experience animated by driving along Gene Autry Trail, viewers will encounter a series of billboards featuring photographs of the very mountains towards which they are heading. Each photograph is unique to its position along this route and at a certain point as one approaches each billboard, perfect alignment with the horizon will occur thus reconnecting the space that the rectangle of the billboard has interrupted. In the language of billboard advertising this kind of reading is referred to as a Burma-Shave.“
When Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling
[Pothole somewhere in Ireland ca. 2012 found here.]
Texas Blue
The giraffe’s name is Blue and lives at Blue Hills Safari Ranch, McGregor, Texas. There’s a brief tour of the ranch on the Utubes.
Soviet Dachas
“A ‘dacha’ is a country cottage, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigors of the city for rural idyll.
[…]
“The word ‘dacha’ has been used to describe constructions ranging from grand imperial villas to small sheds. Originally bestowed by the Tsar to reward courtiers, this custom continued following the revolution, with Soviet cooperatives building dachas for their members. Supposedly for the benefit of labourers, in reality they were destined for those favoured by the State.”
Photos by Fyodor Savintsev from the book Dacha (2023).
[Images and caption found here, via Thompson, Blog.]
Duneball Court
Photographer Yura Borschev was a runner up in the 2026 Drone Photo Awards for this image of a basketball court in the UAE after a sandstorm.
[Image found here.]
Shark Dentist
Birds Sitting on Capybaras
‘Sup Babe.
[Found here. This spider monkey was the source of many photoshop challenges circa 2020.]
