Friday evening means dance off for this couple of Qianlong shouhu during the Early Jurassic in China 💃🏼🪩🕺🏽🦕🦖
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behold: what has been taking up my time for the past two and a half weeks!
this piano was a public art commissions for the city! it's covered in dinosaurs that have actually been found (and in the case of 3 of them, discovered) in my home state of colorado. i'm super happy with how it turned out and i had a blast painting it :^)
[image description: a piano painted with various dinosaurs. the left half of the piano represents the dinosaurs in their fossilized form as bones surrounded by fossil leaves and debris. the right half of the piano is the dinosaurs alive in their natural environments. among the species featured are fish, ammonites, orthocones, a plesiosaur, pterosaurs, a brontosaurus, a triceratops, a stegosaurus, and a fruitadens]
a lil update, this piano is currently in the square and it was a nice surprise seeing it again (they move the pianos around to different public places semi-frequently)! and tonight i was wandering downtown and three frat bro looking guys came by on unicycles and did unicycle tricks and then one of them got off his unicycle and started playing the howls moving castle theme on this piano
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All of the Prehistoric Pride guys in one collective post to celebrate pride month. Choose your fighter and have an awesome time :D
More suggestions are always welcome, I sadly was not able to cover everyone, but I will do more of these in the future!
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The Farmer’s Daughter by Victor Adame
I love how these are still very small triceratops. Like, adult Triceratops was stupidly huge compared to other ceratopsians. Three meters tall, and heavier than an elephant (that’s three centrosaurs, four rhinos or six bulls).
Source: victoradameart.com
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ohg.. sory i just realized dinosaurs also had genetic differences and variations. were there little gleaming snowflake albino dinosaurs? were there conjoined twin t-rexes, who did not survive to see the sun but found the twice as many stars good enough? were there polydactyl sabertooths? much to think of..
Polydactyl sabertooths are my new headcanon
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Dinosaurs 🦕🌿, leaf artwork by Raku Inoue
2 people have now suggested this post to me, and it is good. good leefs.
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These are designs I made some years ago, I still think they work very well, but they needed some cleanup. Now I’ve made them into stickers once again, check them out!
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Warmup Velociraptor inspired by Paleo Pines
the fact that Spielbergs original Jurassic Park (the one based off Crichtons novel) is absolutely perfect in every single way with iconic characters and stellar writing plus with the masterful directing that conveys the sheer tension and suspense of jurassic park…….to then see the jurassic world sequels with their dinosaur helicopter clone human genetics or whatever the fuck is going on with Cool Guy chris pratt doing Cool Guy Action Things that just absolutely sucks the life and joy out of the entire universe is a crime against cinema and every time i think about it…..electric chair
#i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again#the Jurassic world movies became exactly what the original movie was criticizing#turning creatures into spectacles and ignoring the true meaning and value of nature and life#the new movies are all ‘wow look how cool our Action Guy is with all these crazy new dinos! t-rex in front of an exploding volcano!!!’#and the original story was like ‘hey maybe we SHOULDN’T treat these creatures as money-making objects and wield science as capitalist power’#jurassic park#jurrasic world#movies#books#dinosaurs
Deinonychus Takedown for animation practice
me when i GET you
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fleshdyke
birds have truly mastered feathers like what do you Mean they can be shiny. how fucking cool is that
fleshdyke
glossy ibis
european starling
greater blue eared starling
nicobar pigeon
purple martin
glowing puffleg
violet backed starling
+ special shoutout to rob garren and his purple poultry project. he is breeding his chickens to be very shiny and very purple
Also Grackles and Tree Swallows...
And dinosaurs have been doing this for millions of years also! Because iridescence comes from microscopic organelles inside the structure of feathers, it can be detected in exceptionally preserved fossils! So we know a few prehistoric dinosaurs had iridescent feathers:
Microraptor (by Mick Ellison)
Caihong (by me)
Wulong (by @bobnichollsart)
Calciavis (by Velizar Simeonovski)
Cruralispennia (by Neil Pezzoni)
Eocypselus (by Jillian Ditner)
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I noticed the old/original version of this piece got some retweets recently and I haven’t posted to Tumblr in awhile, and it’s a pretty good time to dust off my account.
I call this piece “Butterfly Effect” because I just couldn’t resist that title no matter how hard I tried.
5x7″ and 11x17″ prints are available on my website.
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dinosaur sprinkles. look at this post with your eyes if you agree
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First Stargazing