SUGAR + MEOWS

Kim Novak and James Stewart in Bell, Book and Candle (dir. Richard Quine, 1958)

Mask of Tutankhamen (gilt wood, 20th century)

freakyfauna:

Bear Emerging from the Sea by Amidilak, Port Harrison.

From Eskimo Art by Cottie Burland, published by Hamlyn (1973).

freakyfauna:

Dan Mask.
Photograph (1918) by Charles Sheeler.

Found here.

Egyptian revival pendant, likely a Shriners’ pendant

Tiger’s eye, tiger claw, diamond, synthetic ruby, enamel and cubic zirconia, mounted in fourteen karat and ten karat gold

Untitled (ink and wash on paper, 1998) – George Condo (b.1957)

biomedicalephemera:

Faces of Lorises

1. Nycticebus tardigradus malayanus (Nycticebus coucang spp.- Sunda slow loris. Note: possibly Nycticebus javanicus - the Javan slow loris)
2. Nycticebus tardigradus hilleri (Nycticebus coucang coucang - the Sunda slow loris, type species)
3. Loris gracilis typicus (Loris lydekkerianus lydekkerianus - Gray slender loris)
4. Loris gracilis zeylanicus (Loris tardigradus - Red slender loris)

All lorises are endangered or vulnerable due to the pet trade and their use in traditional “medicine”. While these small and nocturnal critters tend to be much more adaptable when humans encroach upon their habitat than other species of primate (making due in the trees humans transplant as opposed to their native foliage, and dealing with the human presence in stride, for example), they’re still all too often thought to “cure” various ailments with their body parts (especially the slow lorises), and traded as pets throughout their native habitat of Southeast Asia, and when they’re successfully smuggled to the rest of the world.

Seriously, people. Their cuteness is so much cuter in the wild. Lorises are freaking adorable, and the hunting strategies of the various species and subspecies are so varied and fascinating that they deserve to stay in a protected natural habitat. I mean, among other reasons to preserve them, obviously…they’re just such cool little omnivores!

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1904

I want to kiss them all!

Portrait Composition (charcoal and watercolor on paper, 2009) – George Condo (b.1957)

Still Life with Terracotta Head (Stilleben mit Terrakotta-Kopf) (1921) – E.R. Weiss

Mask (black glazed ceramic, c.1955) – Roger Capron (1922–2006)

Marc Bourlier

Girl pug

Study for the Head of the Melvin Memorial (bronze, 1907) – Daniel Chester French (American, 1850–1931)