Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@qoto.org

Left: Tuna Fishing by Salvador Dalí (1966-1967). It's 3 by 4 meters!
Right: Day and Night by M.C. Escher (1938).
Your job is to find the Escher birds in the Dalí painting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_Fishing_(painting)
#art #surrealism #fish #birds #psychedelic

Mon père était à la télé dans l'émission "C'est toujours pas sorcier" (à 9:50 et à 2 reprises après) : https://www.france.tv/france-4/c-est-toujours-pas-sorcier/saison-6/5623608-d-ou-vient-le-fer.html

My dad was on TV talking about meteorite iron found in archaeological artifacts prior to the iron age. They know it's from meteorites due to the high nickel content not found in ordinary iron objects.
(video requires IP address from France; I use ExpressVPN)

#archaeology #archéologie #geology #géologie #meteorites #science #tv #kidstv

First piece of 2024! Here's some music I was listening to, a cover of Depeche Mode's Somebody by hante: https://youtu.be/l84NU2ZWo9I

#art #mastoartist

I like the hobby of mushroom hunting. In particular, I like mushroom identification forums because their members stay down to earth. You won't find people patting each other on the back for being inexcusably terrible, due to the consequences of making mistakes.

#mushrooms #fungi #mentalhealth

On vouvoie les gens qui font des choses importantes mais on tutoie les gens importants.

#français #french

Remember The Dress, a viral sensation back in 2015? I was wondering if I was still perceiving it like I used to, that is white and gold. I now see it "as it is", i.e. a terrible photo that could be interpreted either as a completely backlit white and gold dress or a blue and black dress with strong lighting coming from inside the store. I also see the colors that I would have to use to turn the photo into a painting. This is probably as a result of spending a lot of time looking at paintings and painting.

Do you see it differently than you used to 8 years ago?

#colors #art #dress #old #perception #painting #photography

Of course, it could also be that flying birds evolved into walking giants thanks to their lightweight bones...

I'm reading about giant dinosaurs and now I'm convinced that their large size required lightweight bones which became later key to evolving into flying birds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus

#armchair #paleontology #evolution #dinosaurs #birds #bones

Helvooo, December 2023
46 cm × 61 cm, acrylic+brass on canvas

#art #artistonmastodon #abstractart

Gymnopilus ventricosus - jumbo gyms. Santa Cruz Mountains, California.
#mushrooms #fungi #trees #california

Amanita pachycolea (Western grisette), Pacific coast of northern California. One of the low-risk edible amanitas.
#mushrooms #fungi #champignons

Tell us something original and important.

A little something
https://martinj.art/all/#img-20231217
#art #artistonmastodon

Principle of self-reinforcing ignorance: those who would benefit the most from new advice are those who are most likely to reject it.

Big mushroom day in the San Francisco Bay Area!

#mushrooms #fungi #bayarea #outdoors