M.C. Escher, Another World / Andere Wereld (1947)
This is almost my favorite image by Escher. But I’d like a frEscher perspective in it: I think the bird should be looking in the other direction, out into the impossibly overlapping universes, not into the cupola and at the viewer.
Orange-tip butterfly ♂, Anthocharis cardamines
lepidoptera, n. a large order of insects comprising the butterflies and moths. ← Greek λεπιδο-, “scale” + πτερόν, “wing” — Oxford English Dictionary
The phosphorescent fungus Panellus stipticus, responsible for white rot (Wikipedia)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…
The title of this incendiary intervention is of course a core referencing of Sunn O)))’s classic album Insect Villain Monocrypt (2006).
Feathers by Ben Rothery (click for larger)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
“Bennae Bellae” is a play on Pennae Bellae, which is Latin for “Beautiful Feathers” (Pennae Pulchrae would be better, but not as assonant).
What are these plastic polyhedra for and why exactly do they take that shape?
I didn’t have a clue when I first came across one. The answer is here.
“Don’t ever think that magic is simply somebody taking a rabbit out of a hat. Our ancestors believed in magic and were right for the wrong reasons — for the most part they believed that magic was evil, not good. But the magic that lies all about you, from your own body to that of an elephant, to a fly’s wing as intricate as anything that lets the sunlight into Chartres Cathedral, to the great surging sea itself — that is magic. Anyone who goes through life unastounded by everything he sees is not alive.” — Gerald Durrell, Myself and Other Animals (2024), “Fragments from unpublished autobiography”
Glowworms above the Waitomo Stream, Waitomo Glowworm Cave, New Zealand (Image)
Previously Pre-Posted…
• Glow with the Flow #1
If reading continually reteaches you how to think, television is a perpetual anesthetic. Philosophy, history, complex thought are all impossible on the tube: “Its form works against the content.” — Noah McCormack, “We Used to Read Things in This Country”, The Baffler #81, November 2025
“Descending Toward the Moon” (1951) by Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986)
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 
