Cool Pictures 14: no , it wasn't me who painted Mona Lisa

This is a painting from 1909, by Zinaida Serebryakova

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Your mind simply attempts to establish the dynamics, and goes with movement.

But notice this:

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Now there is no movement (or very notably less of it), from which you can infer that the regular polygon skin plays a very considerable part (it's not that pronounced in the miniaturization).
 
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There is no movement in either.
 
Her pants don't match the ground. And that looks like a chilly place to go barefoot.
 
The rug that matches the clifftop is a nice touch, though.
 

The lava has reached the parking lot of the blue lagoon

Spoiler The lava advances :

Better times

 
Someone took this picture a couple of days ago, near the school where I did my student teaching practicum 40 years ago.

It's quite common for deer and moose to visit people's yards in this part of town.

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Btw, it started snowing in earnest a few hours after this was posted on FB. Hopefully the moose found something edible before it got buried.
 
René Magritte’s La Condition Humaine


Meret Oppenheim’s Eichhörnchen
 

Wild elk (Cervus canadensis) graze in the vibrantly coloured Tiaozini wetlands in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. The wetlands are carpeted by the Chinese mugwort shrub (Artemisia halodendron), which turns a bright red in autumn, attracting wildlife such as birds and the elk.
 
Origami art from a 2013 exhibit in Albuquerque.



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