"Audubon painted a handful of birds that aren’t an exact match for anything we’ve currently got. These are Audubon’s mystery birds."
https://www.audubon.org/news/john-james-audubon-crazy-wrong-or-neither
"All of the species depicted in Louis Renard’s _Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes_ received some level of artistic embellishment – and approximately 9% are completely fantastical. If that’s not strange enough, the work is produced by a man who identified himself as a 'secret agent on behalf of the British Crown' and contains a portrait of a mermaid."
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2016/08/renards-book-of-fantastical-fish.html
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src: Renard, Louis. _Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes_. 1754. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/200575
I slept through my Squarch time again. So in a belated Saint Patrick's Day gesture, here's a somewhat mysterious figure from In Lebor Ogaim, which has come down to us from the fourteenth century.
Wikipedia says: "Traig Sruth Ferchertne/Strand Stream of Ferchertne: This time the letters are arranged in a series of squares. Ferchertne was a famous mythical poet of ancient Ireland who epitomised the excellence of the poet's craft. He was credited with writing part of the Scholar's Primer dealing with poetry. According to Ó hÓgáin, so great were Ferchertne's poetic powers that it was said that 'the lakes and rivers drain before him when he satirises, and they rise up when he praises them'."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Lebor_Ogaim
This old Roman mosaic at Conimbriga has me wondering what's up. It seems unlikely that the mosaicists would find themselves surprised to have run out of space but...
(src: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ancient_Roman_mosaics_in_Conimbriga)
This perfectly hackable object came to me through the local Buy Nothing.
"Weird noise art!" was my first thought. It'd make a fine housing for a ghost box. But maybe I won't go so far just yet. It's an adequate little speaker, and a device that plays a different MP3 every day is something I could use.
All my chickens have roller derby names.
Interests include sound, quilts, plant dyes, and weird little machines.