{"id":11030,"date":"2013-10-18T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11030"},"modified":"2013-10-18T08:56:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T12:56:49","slug":"what-interested-me-this-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11030","title":{"rendered":"What Interested Me This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is quite possibly the most adorable thing I&#8217;ve seen in a long time (seriously, click through and see the other two pictures):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/kT3l6\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/3QLhDjG.jpg?resize=450%2C301\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd speaking of foxes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2013\/10\/a-fox-is-living-on-the-white-house-grounds-and-no-one-can-catch-it-because-of-the-shutdown\/280555\/\">there&#8217;s a fox living on the White House grounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I discovered some new websites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badfigure.org\/\">Bad Figure<\/a>: God-awful good-for-nothing figures from cutting-edge published research. <\/p>\n<p>frex:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.badfigure.org\/2012\/08\/23\/just-follow-the-map\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.badfigure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/17.jpg?resize=640%2C336\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/buzzhootroar.com\/\">Buzz Hoot Roar<\/a> is comics + science.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd <a href=\"http:\/\/discardingimages.tumblr.com\/\">discarded images<\/a>, which is a tumblr dedicated to the images found in the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts.<\/p>\n<p>frex:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/discardingimages.tumblr.com\/post\/64152862298\/weasel-the-weasel-is-called-mustela-a-long\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/31.media.tumblr.com\/1fcf19d6c1d79bb70dbb437cbbda7239\/tumblr_muqfewGXOz1rqxd5ko1_1280.jpg?resize=427%2C153\" width=\"427\" height=\"153\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nweasel: &#8216;The weasel is called mustela, &#8216;a long mouse&#8217;, so to speak, for theon [telos] in Greek means &#8216;long&#8217;. [\u2026] It hunts snakes and mice. [\u2026] Some say that weasels conceive through the ear and give birth through the mouth; others say, on the contrary, that they conceive through the mouth and give birth through the ear\u2026&#8217; (transl. Aberdeen Bestiary Project)<\/p>\n<p>Bestiary, Th\u00e9rouanne ca. 1270.<\/p>\n<p>LA, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. Ludwig XV 3, fol. 91v<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I discovered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvstateparks.com\/community\/hiking.htm\">West Virginia State Park Program: Hiking West Virginia<\/a> and have absolutely no idea how I didn&#8217;t know about this before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbuszoo.org\/drumcroaker\/pdf\/2009.pdf#page=18\">I learned how to make a penguin wetsuit,<\/a> in case that need ever arises.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd on Facebook, my friends and I had a long discussion on body image and the treatment of women in the media.<\/p>\n<p>There was a link on Facebook purporting to show how celebrities look in real life versus in magazines. But it was magazines photos compared to candid shots, and bothered me for several reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1. It was ALL women. No men.<br \/>\n2. The &#8220;normal&#8221; shots were paparazzi shots. I think paparazzi are a scourge upon the world.<br \/>\n3. There&#8217;s no time comparison&#8211;were the photos taken weeks, months, years apart?<br \/>\n4. A lot of the paparazzi shots were vacation shots. Come on, who hasn&#8217;t pigged out on vacation and worn comfortable clothes?<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, I felt it was just mean. <\/p>\n<p>But, it IS true that the image of women that is presented in the media is unrealistic and completely unachievable. So I found some sites that had much better (and far less mean) comparisons, that let you see people at the best, and how photoshop is still used to manipulate those images.<\/p>\n<p>Links of interest:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jessicamisener\/23-celebrities-before-after-photoshop\">23 Celebrities Before &#038; After Photoshop<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/10steps.sg\/inspirations\/artworks\/40-cool-before-and-after-photo-retouching-photos\/\">40 Amazing Before and After Photo Retouching Photos<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2010\/10\/12\/the-reality-of-celebrity-photoshop-before-and-after\/\">The Reality of Celebrity Photoshop: Before and After<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what happened this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is quite possibly the most adorable thing I&#8217;ve seen in a long time (seriously, click through and see the other two pictures): &nbsp; &nbsp; And speaking of foxes, there&#8217;s a fox living on the White House grounds. &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8212;&#8212; &nbsp; &nbsp; I discovered some new websites: Bad Figure: God-awful good-for-nothing figures from cutting-edge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-sequiturs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2RU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}