Tony Carter - Ship Teapot Submitted by Bowsprite: A New York Harbor Sketchbook

Tony Carter - Ship Teapot

Submitted by Bowsprite: A New York Harbor Sketchbook

Aqua Nova, 3″ x 7″carved/textured cherry, african blackwood burl, acrylic, carved opal jacques vesery: look and listen as the world turns Inspired by the colors and shapes found in nature, master woodturner Jacques Vesery creates complex turned, carved sculptures and vessels using wood that is still green – drying it in a microwave after each stage of turning and carving. Read more about his process here. When Vesery was a submariner in the Navy he lived in a small space with 150 people. The experience helped the self-taught artist gain new respect for the old adage, “A place for everything and everything in its place”.

Aqua Nova, 3″ x 7″
carved/textured cherry, african blackwood burl, acrylic, carved opal

jacques vesery: look and listen as the world turns

Inspired by the colors and shapes found in nature, master woodturner Jacques Vesery creates complex turned, carved sculptures and vessels using wood that is still green – drying it in a microwave after each stage of turning and carving. Read more about his process here.

When Vesery was a submariner in the Navy he lived in a small space with 150 people. The experience helped the self-taught artist gain new respect for the old adage, “A place for everything and everything in its place”.

Fin Whale Endangered fin whales live in oceans all over the planet, where they face a myriad of threats: running into ships, getting caught in fishing nets, starving with prey depleted by overfishing, and illegal whaling (the fin whale has been banned for whaling since 1976, though they can still be caught in Greenland). Fin whales are the second-largest whale on the planet, with babies born weighing 6,000 pounds, and growing to 160,000 by the time they reach adulthood, says NOAA.  Photo via Animal Planet Curious Whales Check Out Photographers with Stunning Results

Fin Whale

Endangered fin whales live in oceans all over the planet, where they face a myriad of threats: running into ships, getting caught in fishing nets, starving with prey depleted by overfishing, and illegal whaling (the fin whale has been banned for whaling since 1976, though they can still be caught in Greenland).

Fin whales are the second-largest whale on the planet, with babies born weighing 6,000 pounds, and growing to 160,000 by the time they reach adulthood, says NOAA.  Photo via Animal Planet

Curious Whales Check Out Photographers with Stunning Results

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Donato Giancola - The Golden Rose fuckyeahoceancreatures: personalwonders: notforked: nolitetebastardes: wow!!! (via ghoulnextdoor)

Donato Giancola - The Golden Rose

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wordsandeggs: Printing on the front of an unused paper stock pocket holder for three cigars, dated 1892. Via Sheaff Ephemera.

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Printing on the front of an unused paper stock pocket holder for three cigars, dated 1892. Via Sheaff Ephemera.

John Lee - Sweethearts and Wives; 1860 This depicts the parting of sailors to take up duties on HMS Majestic, an obsolete 80-gun, ex-Crimea, screw-driven, wooden warship anchored in the Mersey as part of the port defences. She fulfilled this role from 1860-66 and was scrapped two years later. In 1863, she is recorded as having prevented two American Confederate battleships from leaving Laird’s shipyard.

John Lee - Sweethearts and Wives; 1860

This depicts the parting of sailors to take up duties on HMS Majestic, an obsolete 80-gun, ex-Crimea, screw-driven, wooden warship anchored in the Mersey as part of the port defences. She fulfilled this role from 1860-66 and was scrapped two years later. In 1863, she is recorded as having prevented two American Confederate battleships from leaving Laird’s shipyard.

Triumphal Maximiliano The Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519, elected Emperor in 1508) commissioned two works of art which exerted a considerable influence on court festivals generally in the Empire: the set of 192 woodcuts commissioned from Dürer in 1515 which together make up the Triumphal Arch and the series of 136 woodcuts by Burgkmair, Altdorfer, Dürer and others which constitute the Triumphal Procession of 1517.” via BibliOdyssey

Triumphal Maximiliano

The Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519, elected Emperor in 1508) commissioned two works of art which exerted a considerable influence on court festivals generally in the Empire: the set of 192 woodcuts commissioned from Dürer in 1515 which together make up the Triumphal Arch and the series of 136 woodcuts by Burgkmair, Altdorfer, Dürer and others which constitute the Triumphal Procession of 1517.”

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Evacuation Day, November 25, 1783 In honor of the now-neglected Evacuation Day, which celebrated the departure of British troops from New York after the Revolutionary War, here is “The Last Boat-Load of the British Leaving New York” by Howard Pyle, an illustration for Henry P. Johnson’s article “Evacuation of New York By the British, 1783” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine for November 1883. The engraver has yet to be identified, but the dimensions of the cut are 4.7 x 5.2 inches. A blog devoted to all things having to do with Howard Pyle (1853-1911)

Evacuation Day, November 25, 1783

In honor of the now-neglected Evacuation Day, which celebrated the departure of British troops from New York after the Revolutionary War, here is “The Last Boat-Load of the British Leaving New York” by Howard Pyle, an illustration for Henry P. Johnson’s article “Evacuation of New York By the British, 1783” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine for November 1883. The engraver has yet to be identified, but the dimensions of the cut are 4.7 x 5.2 inches.

Artist unknown [Never Sea Land]

Artist unknown [Never Sea Land]

Galleon Attack by Howard Pyle

Galleon Attack by Howard Pyle

Octopuses have poisonous saliva Steven Hunt/Getty Images

Octopuses have poisonous saliva

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A tiny brittle starfish (Ophiothrix sp) seeks protection on a much larger blue starfish (Linckia laevigata).

A tiny brittle starfish (Ophiothrix sp) seeks protection on a much larger blue starfish (Linckia laevigata).

The Portuguese man-of-war, also known as the bluebottle, is commonly thought of as a jellyfish but is actually a siphonophore — a colony of specialized working parts. Stuart Westmorland/Getty Images

The Portuguese man-of-war, also known as the bluebottle, is commonly thought of as a jellyfish but is actually a siphonophore — a colony of specialized working parts.

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