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“I can’t possibly accept this award. And I’m very humbled and I’m very grateful and gracious but my artist of my life is Beyoncé and this album to me, the ‘Lemonade’ album, was just so monumental, Beyoncé. It was so monumental. And so well thought out, and so beautiful and soul-bearing, and we got to see another side to you that you don’t always let us see, and we appreciate that, and all us artists here who adore you.” - Beyoncé reacts as Adele accepts Album of The Year (and breaks the award in half at the end)

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Hoi!! I saw a little bit of the process on your Instagram, but could you explain how you go about making a pattern? I absolutely love how that neato cactus/desert one you did turned out!

Alrighty!

So to make a repeating pattern:

1. Open a canvas and draw in the center WITHOUT touching any of the edges.

2. [Below: Light cyan lines] Divide your canvas into four equal parts.

Make four guides framing the canvas, and two across the middle.

For the ones in the middle, View > New Guide > Horizontal or Vertical for needed orientation > type in 50% to get the exact middle of your canvas. These are photoshop shortcuts, may be different on your programs.

3. [Above: Yellow arrows] Make sureyou have ‘Snap’ checked under View > Snap, then select each quarter of your piece > layer via cut > move diagonally to the other side.

After you’re done moving things diagonally, you can either turn off Snap so your doodling won’t stick to the center lines, or toggle the guide visibility off (Ctrl+;). Merge the layers back together.

4. Draw in the middle without touching the borders, color the entire thing if you plan on doing that.

5. Setting your image as a pattern After your image is done, merge all layers into one > select the entire canvas (Ctrl+A) > Edit > Define Pattern

Open a new canvas bigger than the one you made the pattern on, and paint bucket it in! (Instead of the Foreground button at the top when paint bucket is active, select Pattern then your pattern)

If you aren’t using a program that lets you define patterns, merge everything into one layer and duplicate & tile them manually.

Cheers!

jodiefoster

i’m not sleepy in a cute way but in a chronic depression and insomnia way

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When I’m about to get to the really good part of the lesson

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It bothers the fuck out of me that adults try and take away creative outlets for kids, but would never think about doing that when it comes to sports.

All little kids are actors. All little kids are story tellers. All little kids are musicians. All little kids are creative, are artists.

And to see it just slowly be torn from them so they can “grow up” and settle for whatever life the adults want for them, is heartbreaking.

renaissanceenby

my mom trains teachers and one of her specialties is creativity, and when you give kids creative outlets their performance in everything else improves, including sports. when denied creativity, their grades go down, they act out more, they even have behavioral problems at home, mental illness flourishes- because creativity is a necessity for a developing brain. developing brains NEED that creative outlet.

being told exactly what to do every single day for 12 years genuinely results in different brain chemistry because it creates the same kind of fear that occurs in people like me with ptsd. over time, having others control every aspect of your life results in ptsd. we see it in prisoners and we’re seeing it in students now. our school system requires a lot of rigidity, so the only relief a child may have is music or art class and those two seemingly useless classes can make a world of difference.

in denying kids creativity, we’re literally destroying them. we’re giving them anxiety and depression at alarming rates, and setting them up to fail because we think sports are better than art and music.

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And then because we took away that creative freedom, when you let us out of a rigid structured environment to fend for ourselves , we don’t know how to handle it .

I graduated trade school a few years back and I’m STILL struggling to find direction in my life because suddenly NOBODY IS GIVING ME INSTRUCTIONS

Do you know how jarring that is to a kid who’s spent the last 18 YEARS being told how to do ,what to do, when to do ?!

I was raised to follow directions,not to think for myself.

When you take away the rules and rigidity from someone who’s programmed to think that way , it’s like you’ve flipped their world upside down.

To this day I’m more comfortable with other people deciding my life than making my own choices because THAT’S HOW THEY RAISED US

arcaneloquence

To this day I’m more comfortable with other people deciding my life than making my own choices because THAT’S HOW THEY RAISED US

Social scientists have been screaming this for years and we’re ignored on purpose. They know this and how it is and that’s why they do it. The people who decide what’s “good” for children, who decide how prisoners should be treated, who decided how hard employees can be worked, want us to be tired and directionless and without initiative so they can herd and control us and we won’t fight back. It’s calculated, and it’s malicious, and it’s not hyperbole or conspiracy theory. It’s a known quantity and it’s very purposeful.

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artapir:

Scans from Robbie Lee’s Perspective Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide.

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You guys, the form has been a total game changer for me this year. I was so tired of keeping track of which kids turned in assignments late, excuses, etc. so I threw together this form a few months ago and it’s been SO HELPFUL. Whenever an assignment is due I spend 10-15 minutes at the end of the day making a list of kids who did not turn it in. I fill out the top part of the form and hand it to the kid in the next class with the expectation that they fill it out and give it back to me by the end of class. If a kid comes up to me with an excuse on the day an assignment is due, I hand them a blank form and tell them to fill out their request and explanation that way. At the end of class, I glance over their proposed makeup plan, we come to an arrangement, and they go on their way. This helps in two ways: 1.) the kids are way more likely to get their butts in gear when they see how serious I am about this missing work and it holds them responsible for part of their consequences and 2.) I can easily make copies to keep as evidence for parents who are concerned/complaining about grades. I have a special folder for these forms in my desk that makes entering in/keeping track of late grades so much easier ❤