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a tiny swatch of the 6′ canvas i’m currently attacking...

Ever see a crazy-long, indecipherable reblog chain on your dashboard? Not ideal, right?

Starting tomorrow, reblogs will have a new look—one that showcases all comments as equals, not buried under an impossible stack of blockquote indents. Our change to reblog captions last month laid the necessary groundwork for us to arrive here, at a place where the dashboard will be a lot easier to read and cleaner-looking.

Here’s how this will look (original on the left, new look on the right):

Questions about all this? Keep reading for the answers…

FAQ

Q: Will this show up for all posts on the dashboard, or just the posts published from here on out? A: All posts! So you can scroll back in time and see your older reblogs in this format too. Q: Will it look like this on my blog? A: Not necessarily: your public blog will continue to display reblogs according to however your chosen theme displays them. The new look is on the dashboard only, for now. Q: How do I reblog starting from a certain post in the reblog thread? A: Same as before: Just click the username of whoever made the reblog you want to reblog from. It’ll open up, and you can click or tap its reblog icon to reblog that post. Got it? Q: Can I edit earlier reblogs, or the original post, in my reblog? A: You can choose whether or not you want to include that stuff in your own reblog, but you can’t really go in and edit other people’s text. We know—that level of flexibility allowed you guys do some pretty interesting stuff, but it also made misattribution way too easy. Q: Can I remove all captions on a post that I’m reblogging? A: Sure. Click or tap the reblog button and click on the X that appears when you hover over the comments. Q: Can I delete a single reblog caption within the thread? A: No, it’s an all-or-nothing thing. Q: How can I be sure my posts are credited properly? A: Use the content source field! No matter how many times an original post of yours gets reblogged, you’ll always be credited as the source. Rebloggers might add a gif, or some commentary, or take out the caption entirely, but your username will always, always be stuck to the bottom of the post. Click on that source link any time you want to see what was originally posted. Q: Can I send you my feedback on this change? A: Yes. And for the record, even when you receive a simple thank-you response (which is necessary since there are millions of you and only a few of us), every word of your feedback is read lovingly by human eyes, then passed along to our engineers.

oh the things i throw together in the wee hours while assembling backgrounds from detail pics rather than images of the entire artworks...my to-do list grows.

#ami_d

onesoulmanylives

Artist Francis Bacon’s Studio

Photo Credit: Perry Ogden

amid

i feel a little better, my space isn’t quite this cluttered (yet).

#artist studio #francis bacon #perry ogden

my work table doesn’t look like this anymore... the First Saturday Art Walks start again and Open Studios is coming up, eek!

#artiststudiocoop #art studio #artist studio #flux

loverofbeauty

Richard Diebenkorn: Sketchbook #10

#diebenkorn #art #richarddiebenkorn #sketchbook

hyperallergic

Imagine a person like this: “one of a handful of people who can truly be said to have changed the way we think and write about art, fashion, culture, and celebrity”; someone who “made the avant-garde accessible,” and did things “mere mortals only dream of.” The person being referred to in such exalted terms actually did live and walk among us. She died only a few weeks ago after battling breast cancer. Her name was Ingrid Sischy.

How We Talk About the Dead

#hyperallergic ingridsischy interviewmag

iamfawad-deactivated20160626

#Rumi

nevver

Frank Yerby

hello.

i’m bringing this thing back! the plan is to show more of my own art and works in progress...

#ami_d

groupstage

Andy Warhol: Pele, 1978

Kehinde Wiley: Samuel Eto’o, 2010

"There’s a Portuguese phrase you’ll be hearing a lot over the next few months: o jogo bonito. No one is sure who first coined the phrase ‘the beautiful game’ to refer to football, but in Brazil, host of the 2014 World Cup...

#futbol #LACMA

pandasgifs

pushinghoopswithsticks

Rarely do the original communities benefit from an acceptance of “ethnic” styles in the mainstream. White America has always wanted our look, not us. When South Asian bangles, embroidered flats, and paisley print became accepted in the mainstream, it wasn’t South Asians who suddenly became cool. When a Pakistani woman wears a headscarf or an Indian woman wears a bindi, she is subject to everything from scorn to violence; they risk being seen as “unassimilated.” Since the launch of the “war on terror,” Muslim women wearing the hijab have been subject to public beatings, harassment, and workplace discrimination. Our cultural artifacts become identity markers and those markers become targets. I love the hijab, but the last time I wore it a man in a pickup truck followed me screaming slurs. Meanwhile Rihanna poses in one, Madonna models under a niqab, Lady Gaga sings about burqas. Appropriation occurs when bodies, typically white, popularize styles that didn’t originate with them, across a matrix of power: the power of visibility, the power to define what is “ethnic” in the market. The gains that follow are reserved for the appropriator, not the appropriated. When the participation of poc in mainstream culture is relegated to trinkets Urban Outfitters can sell, what are we supposed to do, be grateful? While our communities are mined for the latest hip accessories that are lauded on white bodies while suspect on ours, it’s a valuation of whiteness above us. Above our history, dignity, and humanity. I want to see dreadlocks be appreciated because of the black people wearing them, not the corny white dude who doesn’t have to worry about looking “too ethnic” at a job interview. I want to see Bollywood dances appreciated from our current Indian American Miss America, not Selena Gomez’s mangled approximation in her VMA performance of “Come and Get It.” Guess which one of them was subsequently called a terrorist.

- I and twelve others spoke to BULLET about appropriation in fashion (via pushinghoopswithsticks)

#appropriation #appropriation in fashion