Mike Smale

4 pictures of différents woodcarvings Top left : Woodcarved humanoid octopus wearing a robe, arms wide open, in front of a book standing on branches. On the book, a frog. On the right arm, a kinfisher, and on the top of the head of the octopus, a round duck. The base is burn, on that angle it is not really obvious but is water with a slight wave form arround the octopus. On the background, an old door with old white paint. Top right : Woodcarved creature (Siren Head) with very long skeletal arms and legs, also too many ribs. Its head is a pole with two speakers and wires. Those speakers have teeth. On the highest speaker, a nest with a pigeon. Siren Head is extending its left arm, point a finger forward. A pigeon sits on its index. Caption says "Based on Siren Head by Trevor Henderson" Bottom left : Woodcarved humanoid goose wearing plate armour. She's holding a shield and a flanged mace. On the handle of the mace, a red robin landed. The eyes of the goose are made of glass. The feet and the beak are painted in burnt yellow, as the breast of the red robin. The upper part of the robin is painted in brown/grey and its eyes and beak in black. Bottom right : Woodcarved humanoid crow wearing a hooded cloak, shoulder armor. It has its right hand on a sword. A squirrel is climbing its left arm. On the base, a cat is resting.

Hello, I'm a woodcarver, and this what I do ✌️

You can help me a lot by sharing my work, so people can buy or commission me sculptures.

Praying for octopus blessings on your life 🐙🙏

A green Dilophosaurus with brown spots stands over a beige comb and blows into it without the needed paper. Both are atop a blue counter.

Dilophosaurus attempts to play the comb.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #Combs #Dinosaurs

Black ink abstract drawing with rectangles and lines

Abstract No. 9

A large reed bed with tall reeds and a pond with marsh grasses & woodland trees beyond. Fluffy cumulus clouds in a blue sky which is reflected in the pond dark & inky looking.

Earlier.

#OneWalkADay
#MentalHealthMatters 💙

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Buzzfeed is dying, tell @maddox.xmission.com!

An orange and white tomcat with an orange smudge on his nose climbs along the base of my bed. The hardwood floor is behind him and a green and brown puff is partially visible on the right edge.

A chubby white munchkin cat with black, brown, and yellow spots stands on the wheels of an office chair and balances so that she does not touch the floor. A green, rose, and beige circular area rug fills the left side with a green rectangular mat behind her. The chair is completely black and worn out.

#Caturday explorers.

#Cats #Cat #Pets #Animals

Health Updates (Part 2) I really didn’t want to write another update regarding my health. I was supposed to publish a list of my top picks for last week’s Bandcamp Friday with links to my…

More health updates to the newsletter/blog. I'm hoping things are back to normal after this.

A green Dilophosaurus with brown spots stands on the edge of a red plate with white floral designs and stares at a little pile of burned meatloaf that they have become stuck with for dinner tonight :(

Dilophosaurus gets stuck with the burned leftovers.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #Meatloaf #Scraps #Dinosaurs

astronomy is so funny because it's this fairly niche interest for a small community of nerds and also it's 99.9999% of everything that exists

A lone Spinophorosaurus sauropod ascends an arid incline in low light, with cycads and ferns between some weathered rocks.

Spinophorosaurus
Middle Jurassic, Africa

A lone sauropod ascends an arid incline in low light. I made this using #Blender.

#Paleoart #SciArt #illustration #3D #dinosaur #sauropod #NaturalHistory

I'm currently recovering from two seizures and can't do much. Better now, but MAN do I feel ya Eve!

Both of my grandpas served in the Pacific Theatre. You did nothing. If you felt you were in the military, you wouldn't have lied to get out of military service.

‘Unusually large’ tyrannosaur leg bone points to 10,000-pound behemoth It’s nipping at Sue's heels.

www.popsci.com/science/larg...

The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist” When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, wi...

Border Patrol shot a US citizen and preschool teacher five times.

The agent bragged “5 shots, 7 holes”

DHS blamed Marimar. They called her a terrorist & said she was the aggressor.

She wasn’t.

She’s telling her story to protect others.

If they can do this to her they will do it to anyone.

A green Dilophosaurus with brown spots stands before two yellow marshmallow peep chicks while a third creeps up along their right flank atop a shining brown dining room table.

Dilophosaurus encounters some clever girls.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #Peeps #JurassicPark #Marshmallows #Dinosaurs

Happy birthday, #pandemic! I can't believe we almost forgot!

A green Dilophosaurus with brown spots hangs off of the edge of a large glass bowl and peers into it at the rice covered sausage and chicken bits from a dinner of jambalaya. The tines of a fork are just visible beneath Dilophosaurus.

Dilophosaurus enjoys some spice.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #Jambalaya #Cajun #Dinosaurs

A photo taken at night of the turbulent, rotating updraft of monster supercell thunderstorm over a rural grassy and tree-filled landscape. The storm's structure is illuminated blue and purple dur to internal lightning, with some branches poking through clouds on the side. At the base of the storm are two lowerings that meet the trees on the horizon. There were ongoing twin tornadoes at the time.

You're driving at night and see this out your window. Wyd? #Photography

Note: there are twin tornadoes in progress under there. Etowah, Oklahoma (April 19, 2023).

A green Dilophosaurus with brown spots sits in the twigs of a Japanese maple tree just beginning to show buds with a large oak tree behind them. Houses dot the background with a stray dark blue truck partially visible in the bottom centre. The sky is bright blue over the white and grey houses that line the background.

Dilophosaurus shakes the leaves awake.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #Spring #Trees #Dinosaurs

A line of trees painted at a nature reserve near Cambridge.

A pen and watercolour woodland sketch at the Beechwoods nature reserve near Cambridge UK.
#watercolour #watercolor #enpleinair

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’

‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’

‘Hello’ is not related to either.

Goodbye.

Things must be changing quickly because that guy used to be all about helping out his neighbour-eenos.

An acrylic painting of a skeleton framed head and shoulders leering at a Chicago-style hot dog it is holding in its hend. The hot dog has a little face that is just two eye holes and a mouth hole, and some spooky, ghosty green ectoplasmic things are floating up out of the little face holes. No I don't know why either.

I have once again been way off w/r/t actual painting so I wanted to mess with something small and low stress and dumb with no attachment to how it was going to turn out and I think it's safe to say I accomplished that

A green Dilophosaurus with brown spots stands at the edge of a glass saucer and eyes a baked potato sliced in half with yellow and white cheddar cheese melted atop each slice. A light blue pot holder lies beneath the glass saucer.

Dilophosaurus is happy to finally have some real food.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #BakedPotato #Dinosaurs

Post a photo of you in another decade/century/millennium/era/eon.

First day of the First Grade, 1993.

Meet Myles…. Cuz he’s miles from being a heifer 😭 #OnlyCalves

Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence

Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence

T. rex took 40 years to reach full size, study finds Tyrannosaurus rex may have taken far longer to grow up than scientists once thought. By analyzing growth rings in fossilized leg bones from 17 tyrannosaur specimens and using new statistical methods, ...

That's because they coddle them too much now. Back in my day, it only took 20 years for T-Rexes to fully mature, because they had discipline. Spare the rod, spoil the terrible tyrant lizard.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

A green Dilophosaurus with brown spots stands before an orange and white tomcat with an orange smudge on his nose while standing on a beige rug with brown and red floral patterns. A black piano bench is partially visible in the far upper left.

Dilophosaurus is happy to be back home.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #Cats #Dinosaurs

Back home and washed of all the sweat and stink, can barley walk after being bedridden for three days, have more bruises (and a black eye) than I'd care to admit.