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avianawareness:

80k budgies form a tornado over a waterhole in Australian outback 

  • Tens of thousands of birds were captured in droves flocking over a shrinking waterhole in the Australian outback
  • British photographer Paul Williams was treated to a mesmerising display of birds brightening up the sky
  • The spectacular budgie tornado flock in desperate search for scarce water in the heart of the country

Read more via Daily Mail Online

If ONE MORE PERSON says “What if they’d medicated Van Gogh!?” I think I’m permitted to set things on fire.  If they’d medicated Van Gogh, he’d either have painted twice as much, or he’d have been happy and unproductive.  And you know what? Starry Night wasn’t worth a terrible price in human misery. It’s neat. It wasn’t worth it.

Sometimes I wonder if being an artist makes me jaded to ART. Because it’s not magic and it’s not mystical, it’s just paint or pixels.  And it can do amazing things! But you don’t owe humanity to be miserable just so you can move paint around in interesting shapes. Jesus.  Art is not some kind of Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas bargain where you agree to be miserable so everybody can go “oh! Neat!” for 5 minutes.

Ursula Vernon, dropping the mic.  [x]
(via ooksaidthelibrarian)