No Title (El Tristan)

Take my hand tumblrinas I think you might very well enjoy it

Let's start off easy with some of his earlier work

He did the illustration for an entire book about witches' story

And might I add this one that feels relevent to the subject

Still one of his early work but you can already see an aspect that will define his work in general which is the point of view, unique point of view and perspective.

I gotta admit I'm in love with this

You can go see @tilbageidanmark post to see an animated version of Escher's tesselations

That one is a Big One

Certainly one of his most famous artwork

That one was made about a decade later after the previous one. It's more technically accomplished and precise in its details

I mean look at that

You have the details of the plates and the painting behind him

The panel in not more that 40cm wide

Look at THIS

Yes it IS a reflection of the garden outside his window, with an upside down reflection to boot

The level of precision and realism is sick! What a fucking freak!! (Complimentary)

All those things you saw before are not drawn, they are etched

Escher is a specialist of lithography, which means that all the works you have seen are etched onto a panel of stone or metal, covered in ink and then pressed onto a sheet of paper or another material

So yeah

Oh my god

A close up of an eye with a skull inside?

Do you think Escher might have been autistic? This one seems to be a good representation of autism no?

Another Big One for you guys

And some fucked up perspectives:

Reminder that the last one was made in the forties

There was no possible way to bend a picture like you can do now on photoshop

There were no fish-eye lenses you could put on a camera

Maleficent spotted with Pinocchio 👀 #problematicagegap

It takes a second to realise how much Escher has influenced culture at large

Go home everybody

I hope you enjoyed the tour 😌

Don't forget to go to the shop to spent all your social benefits on the expo book

I know I did

( it's very funny obviously because I was already in the negatives when I bought the book

Which mean in a way that I made the bank pay for culture

I'm "lucky" in that my first exposures to this were vague and incomplete enough that I was able to formulate my own ideas about what it *should* be — the cracks in the cantilever mass or the exact floorplan (or how unusable it actually is) among what I was blissfully unaware of...

Somebody should showcase some high-pressure prestressed beams by making a Fallingwater 2.0 leapfrog that, FLW FW 4.0+

His many ocean friends are just dying for some cuddles and pets! Please snuggle with Mr Reef Stonefish, shake hands with Mz. Blue-Ringed Octopus, share a kiss with Miss Cone Snail, and salsa dance with the Olive Sea Snakes — all this and more at the Great Barrier Reef!

A signal gantry at Wangaratta is wrecked by an errant anti-aircraft gun in a train pulled by VR H-class H220. The culprits were German POWs being taken to the border under guard on this same train.

It was indeed struck by an AA gun, but one that hadn't been demounted properly and was fouling the loading gauge.

Still, when mishaps happen, it was thought best to blame the incident on some German POWs who were alleged to have escaped.

In looking of the details to verify what I'm adding from my fuzzy memory to the post here, I discovered that. ...this controlled traffic until June 1997! And was only torn down in 2024, when it was dismantled and relocated to the Yarra Valley Railway for restoration! (Link and pics!)

Anyway the prison camp was in Dhurringile, and I'm not Australian but that's more than 100km from the signal gantry in Wangaratta

Since the damage was caused by the impact from a raised gun barrel, I don't really even think if a team of German escaped-POWs intent on sabotage *_did_* manage to get their hands on an AA gun, that really *that's* the best they could do? The *most* absolute mayhem and havoc to the Aussie home defense and war effort????

CYA.