c/hmmm · by Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc · 3y

Hmm 🤔

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Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 3y (8 replies)

Source is the Codex Seraphinianus, for anyone wondering

Synnr@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 3y (6 replies)

Thank you!

Edit: I started looking through it and don't have a word for the emotions I feel. I suppose that's what art is about, but it's almost a cognitive dissonance for what I know is real, and an alien world.

https://archive.org/details/codexseraphinianus_201910/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theater

FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Yo what the hell is this

Synnr@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 3y

Art.

don@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

It’s the Codex Seraphinianus.

TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Is this in an actual language?

can@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 3y

Codex Seraphinianusoriginally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini between 1976 and 1978.[2] It is approximately 360 pages (depending on edition) and written in an imaginary language.[3]

lesnout27@feddit.de · 2 pts · 3y

Why is it so fucking expensive i want this book!

Cruxifux@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

It’s always Codex Seraphinianus. Every time I see something weird as fuck it’s always that weird fucking book.

Infynis@midwest.social · 25 pts · 3y

I hate it when that happens

ShootBANGdang@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Is there a way to metamorphose into the gator without the second person? Asking for a friend

Fosheze@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y

You masturgator.

LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 3y

It doesn't have to be a man and a woman. Two women for example make a snapping turtle instead of an alligator.