I went to Mexico! To look at art! And Oakland California! Where I ended up looking at art! Now I’m back. While I go through my gross dirty laundry and my stack of photos please enjoy these informative treasures.
1. This is a long read but it’s totally worth it. I was blown away.
https://pricklylegs.tumblr.com/post/188456524966/synebluetoo-costumersupportdept
2. There’s a man who makes things and I delight in watching him work. His name is Bobby Duke and not only is he talented as hell, he is also charming and has a Southern accent. I do love me an accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkbJemDY-00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBcjGlXuQAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSFPG1ACz5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taF0nY9GqMg
3. I saw a video where a gorgeous male elk walked reeeeeeal close to some men who I think were fishing. The elk was so majestic. He turned his face toward the camera and made his call which sounded… piercing and otherworldly. I don’t know what I expected an elk call to sound like but it wasn’t this.
https://pricklylegs.tumblr.com/post/188374421161
I thought this elk might have been an anomaly but apparently not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20PET6-Hr_c
I think it’s pretty amazing. People compare it to the sound the undead tormented nazguls make in Lord of the Rings but now that I know it comes out of such a cool creature I don’t find it frightful at all.
4. No one think of the cameraman.
https://blizzardofjj.tumblr.com/post/188492221581/nobody-thinks-of-the-cameraman
Update: Apparently EVERYONE knows the sound an elk makes except me. I am disappointed in myself for not knowing the calls of antlered mammals but I guess you can’t know everything. Hopefully this disappointment will ebb.
Update on the update: It has not ebbed.