I live in the Tower of Flints, I am the death-owl.

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As requested by Gavin Gibson

We’re used to radiation being invisible. With a Geiger counter, it gets turned into audible clicks. What you see above, though, is radiation’s effects made visible in a cloud chamber. In the center hangs a chunk of radioactive uranium, spitting out alpha and beta particles. The chamber also has a reservoir of alcohol and a floor cooled to -40 degrees Celsius. This generates a supersaturated cloud of alcohol vapor. When the uranium spits out a particle, it zips through the vapor, colliding with atoms and ionizing them. Those now-charged ions serve as nuclei for the vapor, which condenses into droplets that reveal the path of the particle. The characteristics of the trails are distinct to the type of decay particle that created them. In fact, both the positron and muon were first discovered in cloud chambers! (Image credit: Cloudylabs, source)

Robert Crumb sometimes points to this sequence when talking about the influence LSD had on his artwork

Nic Cage Mount Rushmore - as requested by Nick Butler Temporarily hunting for good five word or less requests. PM me yours…

Melvins, Berlin, June 13, 2016 (poster by Michael Hacker)

Today’s progress. I think I can finish it up tomorrow. #darkart #darkartists #chetzar #dy5topia #iliketopaintmonsters

I could post dozens more of the strange situations (like Atom going on a date with a bee, Green Lantern LOSING HIS SHIT over a child trying to pick his flowers, some strange fetishy stuff with giants, Batman refusing to get down off the table, Wonder Woman’s continuous battles against pterodactyls, and Supergirl’s forays into paleontology), but that’d take forever and this post is already pretty long. The Super Dictionary is a wonderful acid trip of a book and I have never regretted purchasing my copy. If you’d like to see some scans, there’s more of them here!

“Fantastic Voyage/Riding a Cock” - Bronze sculpture by Roberto Fabelo [La Plaza Vieja, Havana, Cuba] #INSPIRATION • Via @durmoosh https://www.instagram.com/p/BVTJ5A7lTf1/