Spiral Sad Puppy Panties

Spiral - Photographer/Illustrator

Bitter Sweet and Sour

Bitter Sweet and Sour by ~Voivodess

American Beauty

henrich kimerling


For the Californicated: Your tax dollars are busy excavating hippy era beer cans. Remember that when you get your IOU "check".

Sarah Palin has a Gun

What will she do with it?

Koi Maid

Classic!

Koi Kihagaki

“Koi Kihagaki” cut-paper/wood
Patrick Gannon

Koi feeding frenzy

By Matt Niebuhr, via Flickr.

Happy Fishnet Friday!

what a fish... un poison chat by ~capix80

Beautiful Koi

Beautiful koi by ~moon-pookah

Artist's Comments
Koi is the name of Japan carp.[link]

Wait, I thought it was a kind of fish?

koi by ~angeloluha


Koi Mermaid by ~kani-za

Giant Koi

Kintaro Struggles with Giant Carp (Kuniyoshi, ca. 1835)

Kintaro in the Fifth Month, Riding a Carp (Yoshitsuya, ca. 1840)

Kintaro is closely associated with Children’s Day (May 5), when parents of young boys typically display Kintaro dolls — usually riding a large carp — in the hope that their kids grow up to be brave and strong.

Salmon

...Or koi?
Sally Mon

Koi Girls

Mochime via otomano

Infinite Tanuki Reflection

Tanuki Girl

The Tanuki (Japanese racoon-dog),as with fox (Kitsune), is a popular character in Japanese folklore. The mythical Tanuki is often mischievous and jolly, he is thought to be able to shape shift, and sometimes believed to be a transformation of the souls of household goods that were used for one hundred years or more and several shrines have stories of past priests who were tanuki in disguise.
Although quite a trickster he is also gullible and easily distracted.
One well-known tale involving the Tanuki is that of “Bunbuku Chagama”
(rough translation,’happiness bubbling over like a tea pot). The story is of a poor man who finds a tanuki caught in a trap, he sets him free and then returns home.
That night, the tanuki comes to the poor mans house to thank him for his kindness. The Tanuki transforms himself into a teapot (chagama) and tell the man to sell him for money.
The man sells the teapot to a monk, who brings it home, cleans it and sets it over a fire to boil water, as the heat rises around him the tanuki sprouts legs and runs, half transformed, out the door and back to the poor man. This time the tanuki instructs the man to set up a roadside attraction and charge admission for people to see a teapot walking a tightrope. The plan works with the man no longer poor and giving the strange-looking tanuki a safe home.
::Tanuki Girl::

Nun with a Gun

via Blonde Zombies

Koi Scarification

...Originally a phoenix was requested but when we started drawing the design on, with all the old scars a koi just seemed to fit much better with the scales in the direction of her scars. I actually removed some of the old scars to get things level and tried to create a level scar in a field of uneven scar tissue. As you see in the drawing, some scales were also going to be removal for a spotted koi look, but some of the scars’ roots were just to deep to do all at once, so we got the outline done. I’m quite pleased with the results thus far. I’m sure when we add some grey wash to the piece it will give the entire piece more depth and really take the emphasis off the old scars...

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Amanda's Autopsies

Cephalopod Man

Unusual Holidays

A Devil's Haircut In My Mind

A Devil's Haircut In My Mind by ~xXvampireloverXx

Change you can’t Xerox

Fresh off the heels of last night’s debate, here’s some change you can’t Xerox. Artist duo and creative agriculturists, the Date Farmers, are releasing this hand made limited edition campaign print (300pcs.) in support of Barack Hussein Obama. They’re being peddled via Upper Playground and the ‘Farmers’ are promising to use all the proceeds to make and mass-distribute more posters throughout Texas, which is holding it’s primary on March 4th and could help determine the Democratic presidential candidate.
More at ‘Farmers’ For Obama