The Art of Heinrich Lefler
Heinrich Lefler (7 November 1863, Vienna – 17 March 1919, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and stage designer associated with the Golden Age of Illustration – particularly linked with the Jugendstil movement (the German variant of Art Nouveau).
Born in Vienna on November 7, 1863, Heinrich Lefler attended the academies of fine arts in Vienna and Munich, going on to become a member of the “Society of Visual artists – Kuenstlerhaus”. The established independent painter and graphic artist were in fact, a pioneer of modern Austrian graphic design. His numerous business designs included posters, advertisements, and catalogues. Already in 1882 some of these designs were to be found in the pattern book ALLEGORIES AND EMBLEMS. By 1897 he’d created one of the earliest Austrian art nouveau posters for “Auerlicht”, a manufacturer of incandescent lamp mantles.
During his career, Lefler also illustrated many books for the booming turn-of-the-century publishing scene. Finally, in 1900, Gustav Mahler appointed Heinrich Lefler to be the Official designer of the Vienna Court Opera. That same year, Lefler co-founded the “Hagenbund” art movement with his brother-in-law Joseph Urban, together with some other artists. Left weakened after suffering a stroke in late 1918, Heinrich Lefler died in Vienna on March 14, 1919.
The common bladderwort is a diminutive aquatic plant with fetching yellow flowers that lives on ponds and lakes in Asia and Europe. But under the surface, it hides a carnivorous secret: 1-inch chambers – or bladders – along its branches that suck in unsuspecting prey.
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Looking out the window of the Apollo 15 lunar module, August 2, 1971.
Stay with me on this video, trust me, this is insane shit right here.
So, I work at the local aquarium where we operate on a catch and release system for new animals every season. This year, our giant pacific octopod is this gorgeous lady, Doc.
We all know octopodes (or octopuses, as they’re more commonly known) are extremely smart; well I got a first had experience with that tonight.
In the video above, Doc is trying out a tactic on me that worked on my coworker earlier today before I got to work. She positions herself, as seen, at the upper corner of her tank and lifts the lid (which is weighed down with six bricks and additional lead weights, mind you) enough to blow a mass of water through her siphon and out the crack she’s made so it looks like the tank is overflowing. My coworker today rushed over and took the lid off to get in the tank, thinking he had to clear out a clogged pipe. When he did so, she took the opportunity to get a number of arms down the outside of the glass as she tried to climb out of her tank!!
I, knowing this, did not take the lid off, but watched her test the weight of the lid each time she blew water out, to see if I had taken any of the bricks off!! If you watch closely, a few seconds after she blows water, you can see the header with her info raise slightly as she pushes up against it. (We’ve since doubled the amount of bricks on top of there omg)
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I need to do more backgrounds. These are fun.
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The weirdest mating habits of the animal kingdom, explained using humans.
45 YEARS AGO TODAY: Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott and Jim Irwin (top to bottom) give a salute next to the flag, August 1, 1971. (NASA)
Life is too fucking short to be a closeted atheist
Hi there, I’m Star Pippin.
I post my crappy art and not so crappy art by other people. Most of my followers seem to be porn sites that aren’t real people. But this is the only safespace I have to be crazy so here goes….
I was raised in the south by a northern family. We were apparently Catholics on dad’s side, baptist on mom’s. Truth be told, I think dad’s atheist or at the very least agnostic, but he’s older and society has always punished the different.
My folks didn’t go to church. Mom pushed the whole “God is always watching” thing, but never read us the bible or anything like that. We all got Christened and mom and dad would scramble to get us a church to do it.
I always felt distant to christianity. My first bible was fully illustrated with the scariest cult imagery ever, shitty washed out paintings of happy white people with absurdity scrawled beneath. It was like handing a gay boy a copy of hustler. It never clicked with me. My first church experience double downed on that feeling. Once more, shitty cult art of Jesus looking at me in utter horror, pasty white and covered in blood.
Science on the other hand, had bright and colorful pictures of awesome animals. Science had zoo books and Bill Nye. Science was on Discovery Channel (and not just reality TV like now.) Science had its own terror, nature is cruel after all, but it was understandable and logical and just fucking great.
Science had its claw in my from early on. I got in fights over whether or not cats were related to lions in kindergarten. I snapped onto evolution like a magnet, I even forged my permission slip to learn about it. (Mom would have signed it, but I didn’t want a lecture on Jesus.)
Now on the south. The first thing many neighbors says when they meet you is :
“What denomination are you?” And if you’re Black, White, or Latino, it’s assumed you’re a denomination of christian. Shit, in the south, you could be a deer, deer tick, or a deer tick infested dog and they would assume that you’re a christian.
And in school there was no difference. I went to rural southern schools for my entire educational career. Once in 4th or 5th grade, we were lined up by our church. Everyone got up save me. I was already fucking bullied, so this was no help.
People would berate me about not being loved by god and shit, I was essentially an untouchable. I’d act sincere when I said I was a practicing Catholic. I’d lie about which church I’d go to.
A part of me did feel obligated to believing in god. I would pray for things and sometimes they would come true! But then again, praying for school to be canceled by snow in winter isn’t a terribly absurd thing.
I was told that I was a heathen for being Catholic and not Protestant. I was told I would go to hell for being a pussy ass agnostic and not the full blown atheist boiling underneath.
Well guess what bitches,I am a fucking god damned atheist. There is no pasty white god up there judging me for the shit I look up on Google. I cursed in church and I didn’t get struck down. My boob fell out not once, not twice, but three times and I didn’t melt into a puddle of whore soup. Also that whole premarital sex thing (Nope, still not struck by a sudden onslaught of STDS)
I hate that we even have this discussion in 2016. I hate that the DNC tried to peg Bernie Sanders as an Atheist to have him lose with the “Southern Baptist Peeps.” I hate that you can wear a shirt about how much you love Jesus, but if I wear a shirt with a giant ATHEIST on the front I’ll get unwanted/negative attention.
Telling people you’re atheist can be like telling them you’re really enjoying your new life as a crack whore, at least in my old town. Their eyes bulge, they insist on praying for you, they sneak in the word “Bless” every sentence. I’ve had friends distance themselves and tell me that they needed to “pray about” even talking to me.
Sometimes, I wish I had a pokeball with Richard Dawkins in it.
In conclusion
I’m mad thankful for the cool Theists that leave me the fuck alone. Y’all are cool. Being Atheist gave me a new insight into who the “real” Christians (or whatever) are. You can go to church every Sunday and still be a massive bitch, and you can never go and still be pious and graceful.
