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Lemmy • 27 • Japanese Brazilian. This is my personal blog, if you followed for art I recommend leaving because 90% of my posts are politics or rants. I like frogs and art and pokemon and having a nice time on my computer and being a hater.
No dni but i do check who follows me here so if I think youre a cunt youre getting blocked. Ok thats it good bye
When Amal surprised me by telling me she named her newborn after me, I felt like part of my heart had gone to Gaza and remained there ever since.
This part of my heart is now breaking. Amal, who's been on a poor diet because she can't afford better food, is unable to breastfeed baby Mina any longer, and is unable to afford enough formula to compensate, and now both mother and baby are weak and malnourished.
Amal is suffocating from the stress of having to provide for her daughters. Her husband Motasem is doing everything he can (recently, he was almost caught in a bombing while trying to get food) but they're both overwhelmed. I wish there was anything I can do for them.
I'm begging you to donate if you can and share if you can't. I want, more than anything in this world, for these kids to grow up healthy and for their parents to be able to rest.
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the funny thing about uma haters is that they miss all the 10000 issues this game has (fatphobia, how it treats darker skin, ableism, the fact that Its Gacha) and lands straight up onto an argument thats not real i.e the umas being treated as animals/cattle/owned. guys theyre athletes. and theyre extremely independent its literally just the average athlete-trainer sports contract to the point that theres five billion media where the trainers are not important or present at all
screammm ive never signed up for art fights because i've never had characters i want other people to draw but apparently they have put in their tos that you are not allowed to submit art attacks that trace 3d models or photographs that you, the artist, have taken yourself.
to be clear, direct traces of 3d models and photographs you have taken personally or are using within the bounds of their licensing are extremely common and completely acceptable, even in professional pipelines to produce commercial works.
having this kind of extremely strict - and extremely unenforceable - rule in a hobbyist event that includes a lot of kids and people otherwise just starting out is completely ridiculous. there's no need for it. tracing is cool and awesome and you should do it if it helps you as long as you're being up front about how you're sourcing your images
places like wikimedia commons, the public domain image archive, unsplash, and pexels have between them millions of images that are free to use for both personal and commercial projects. there's absolutely no good reason to not take advantage of these resources, and even less for not using your own photographs if you're so inclined. work smarter !
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if i decided to put on an art raffle for literally no reason would anyone want in on it
ok im doing this now anyways
duck's just on a whim low stakes art raffle!!
how to participate:
be following me on this blog (in case of rbing to sideblogs just add your main in the tags so i can check ✌️)
rb this post and add in the tags about a song/album/EP, book, comic or manga series you like since i always like hearing abt that stuff :] (may or may not check it out myself if i get the chance and its up my alley)
winner will receive chibis/headshots of one or two characters of their choice in this style!
as for when it ends i suppose a week from now should do it 👍so ill close it around when may starts
at a certain point, if you want people to recognize how bad it is that nintendo saddled a man with an astronomically huge debt and garnished his wages, you have to stop calling it slavery. all you are doing is making people feel relief when they quickly learn that he was not enslaved. you are setting the bar so low that when reality clears it it seems good. no it is not "indentured servitude" either. that is not more accurate. its wage garnishment. wage garnishment is bad enough to oppose. calling it slavery is not an attempt to get people to take it seriously, its an attempt to paint nintendo as uniquely evil for an unfortunately common practice, which i can only assume you are doing because the reality of nintendo as a corporation betrays your nostalgic childhood memories. i am also left to assume you do not think wage garnishment is all that bad, as you are not calling every other case of wage garnishment slavery, despite it being very common and very harmful. generously, i think some accidental rhetorical sleight of hand happened at first. Nintendo began garnishing his prison wages, and prison labor can be slave labor, though it generally is not considered as such when there are wages to garnish. even then, it would be an issue of the prison system, and now that he is out of jail, its no longer relevant. wage garnishment is bad enough. continuing to lie about will only make people look into it, find out you are lying, and not take you seriously anymore. WAGE GARNISHMENT IS BAD ENOUGH
"The title of the movie poses an interesting question that is asked time and again throughout: what does it mean to be human? When someone hears the word “monster,” they likely picture an otherworldly, grotesque creature that bears no resemblance to a human. In the beginning of the film, Minato asks his mother if a person would still be themselves if their brain was replaced with a pig’s brain. Saori begs the elementary school administration to respect her as a person as she confronts them about Mr. Hori. More than an attempt to get to the truth of the situation with Minato and Mr. Hori, Monster is a delicate exploration of humanity. It’s easy to call something or someone a monster, because that strips the soul out of the situation. It allows us to separate the darkness that people are capable of from humanity itself, but that’s not the truth. We all have the ability to be awful and good and cruel, but that doesn’t make us monsters, it makes us human." (x)
MONSTER 怪物 (2023) dir. Hirokazu Koreeda @pscentral event 31: faceless
we went to bed at 6pm last night and whenever i woke up my brain would try to slowly reconstruct the phrasing and imagery of McDonald's Honey Bustard Pickled Sea fuck meal and as soon as id get it right i would fall back asleep happened about a dozen times
Spin the wheel. Tomorrow, you wake up in this country with, however implausible, a passport for both it and your home country. How do you feel?
This is awful; I’m booking a trip home immediately.
I really don’t like this; I’ll stick it out briefly, but I’m heading home soon.
This isn’t great; I’d rather be back home, but I’ll manage until I can get back.
Being here isn’t better or worse than being in my home country.
This is pretty nice; I’ll stay a little while, but go home eventually.
I love it here; I’ll be staying a long while before I go home.
This is amazing; it’ll be a long time before I go home, and I may stay here.
Picker Wheel is a wheel spinner for a random picker. Various functions & customization. Enter choices or names, spin the wheel to decide a r
Magazine spread commssions are available!
Following my last post, I'll be offering these traditional magazine spreads to cover some bills :)
You can offer from $50 to $100, and I'll design a magazine spread for your character. The higher the price, the more the character will appear/the more the composition will be elaborated (both examples are $100). You can pick from any topic (fashion, food, nature, etc) and graphic elements for me to design your spread on!
The delivery is 1-2 days after I start drawing the spread, colors may not be accurate due to limitation of traditional markers. If interested, DM me or email [email protected]! Thank you ^_^
i think we need to be able to understand that there is a very important web to navigate as artists
Yes, No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism exists and it means that it'll be very hard for you to cut off every source of suffering from your work. Traditional materials such as cotton, paints, the plastic things come in etc could only be cut if you yourself raised all of those materials and processsed them yourself, same with the materials for digital tools such as tablets or ipads
Acting like your art product is cruelity free or 100% handmade even if youre doing things like handmade posters and stickers is very silly.
While the two above points hold true, the usual reaction of artists who are told this is that they can then do whatever because its all "bad", but despite everything in our world being connected to capitalism and exploitation, that doesnt mean you should not try to reduce exploitation. You may not solve the issue of the extraction of cotton and woods for your canvanses, or how heavy metals are extracted for your new tablet, but you can at least avoid directly interacting with manufacturers and supply chains that are harmful and exploitative to make your products. You can attempt to reduce the harm and the people affected in your wake. You're not cutting off a limb, you're letting go of a convenience offered to you from a position of privilege.
i refuse this world view of "everything sucks so you should let artists do whatever you want"!!!!! I absolutely hate it!!!!! Stop being apathetic, stop it!!!!
i think we need to be able to understand that there is a very important web to navigate as artists
Yes, No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism exists and it means that it'll be very hard for you to cut off every source of suffering from your work. Traditional materials such as cotton, paints, the plastic things come in etc could only be cut if you yourself raised all of those materials and processsed them yourself, same with the materials for digital tools such as tablets or ipads
Acting like your art product is cruelity free or 100% handmade even if youre doing things like handmade posters and stickers is very silly.
While the two above points hold true, the usual reaction of artists who are told this is that they can then do whatever because its all "bad", but despite everything in our world being connected to capitalism and exploitation, that doesnt mean you should not try to reduce exploitation. You may not solve the issue of the extraction of cotton and woods for your canvanses, or how heavy metals are extracted for your new tablet, but you can at least avoid directly interacting with manufacturers and supply chains that are harmful and exploitative to make your products. You can attempt to reduce the harm and the people affected in your wake. You're not cutting off a limb, you're letting go of a convenience offered to you from a position of privilege.
can't look at artist merch without thinking of its supply chain
I mean this in a gentle and constructive way, but every time this topic comes up, the notes will be full of people who agree that there are exploitation issues in the supply chain due to unequal economic power between the imperial core and (semi-)periphery, and between the petite bourgeois small business owner artists and proletariat workers who manufacture their merch, but then talk about how people should make their own merch by hand as an ethical alternative, as if that doesn't have supply chain issues too - the problem is that capitalism is a system under which there is no ethical consumption, and while it is noble to try your best to at least be less unethical and you should do that if you must make merch, we should not be getting smug about individual solutions as if that makes you one of the good Etsy merch artists not engaging in exploitation; there is also a chauvinist tendency to act like handmade merch by artists is truly handmade and therefore elevated, while the labour behind mass-produced merch in the Global South, which is also handmade, gets dismissed or made invisible even by people who claim to support them, not just the artists exploiting them and taking credit for their work.
'Just buy some fabric and sew your own plushies!' - Who made the fabric? Who grew the cotton? Where did the oil for the polyester stuffing come from? Who manufactured the sewing machine? What did the workers at all levels get paid? Especially for you to be able to buy the materials and make a profit on what you sell?
'Just re-purpose old t-shirts!' - Who made the t-shirts? Who grew the cotton? Where did the dyes come from? How did so many t-shirts end up where you are? Would you even have a supply of t-shirts to re-purpose if it were not for exploitative supply chains and overproduction?
'Just make your own charms out of shrinky dinks!' - Where did the oil for the plastic coming from? Who manufactured the shrinks dinks? What materials are in the packaging? What is the supply chain for the heat source you are using? If you are against acrylic charms bc they are plastic and will end up not decomposing in a landfill and releasing microplastics into the water, how is manufacturing plastic merch yourself by hand supposed to be any better for the environment?
'Just source your materials locally!' - Do the business owners you are buying from pay their workers a living wage? How are their workers treated? Do they import any of their supplies from the Global South to sustain their business? If they do, are their suppliers being paid fairly? Is the business built on land and natural resources stolen from Indigenous peoples?
Kerry Guinan
Artists, 2019
Series of six blank canvases (70x70cm) signed by the factory workers that made them in Daler Rowney, Free Industrial Zone, La Romana, the Dominican Republic.
Images: Photograph of 3 canvases from the series in the solo exhibition 'Our Celestial Sphere' at Pallas Projects, Dublin, 2019.
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick Institute of Technology, and Fingal County Council. Images: Pallas Projects/Studios & Kerry Guinan.
(Original caption from artist’s website)
Series of six blank canvases (70x70cm) signed by the factory workers that made them in Daler Rowney, Free Industrial Zone, La Romana, the Do
And after contacting the Irish Museum of Modern Art and being referred to a curator (!), they provided me with the caption information that was used when displaying the work for the Staying With The Trouble exhibition in 2025 (thank you so much IMMA staff!!)
Artists is a series of blank, square canvases, each signed by a staff member in the manufacturing facility that produced the canvases in the La Romana Free Trade Zone, the Dominican Republic. The manufacturer, Daler Rowney, is a popular supplier of art materials in Ireland. The artist coordinated the project remotely by contacting the facility manager. The signatories volunteered to take part in the project upon invitation. They are Johan Rivera, Carlos Roa, Aneury Rondon, and Orlando Saldivar.
Anyways, I’d spent about the last 6 hours of my life trying to find out this information after some discussion on artist supply chains came up on the dashboard. Hope you enjoy the work as much as I do.
we very often see comprador bourgeois and mercenary collaborators emerge from a colonized group, including colonized people who enlist in the colonial military; their collaboration doesn't typically change the material situation of the colonized group as a whole. it does change the terrain of struggle, in that it further entrenches the colonial regime. in my view that's the dynamic playing out when Native people occupied by the so-called US enlist in its military. it's just ahistorical to pretend that's unique to the internal colonies of the imperial core, and not a near universal aspect of the colonial condition. we can hold collaborators to account for their monstrous crimes both as individuals, and as a class which is manifestly distinct from the colonized lumpenproletariat. that's pretty boilerplate fanonian decolonial theory. it doesn't make sense to either deny their existence and paint the colonized group in question as universally innocent, OR to leverage their existence to paint the colonized group as universally corrupt. there are always going to be colonized people, often a considerable segment of a colonized population, that think collaboration with colonizers is a better deal than resistance, and will do horrible things to secure personal gains. this is just as true among colonized people outside the imperial core as inside; none of our peoples can claim moral purity and anyone trying to do so is coming from a disingenuous, ego-protective place that's antithetical to the work of liberation
You can have any animal for a pet. Any complications such as “keeping the animal healthy and happy” and “the time and effort it would take to keep happy and healthy pet” and “keeping yourself uneaten” and “the pet I want is kind of extinct” have all been solved perfectly. You don’t have to think of that.
What is your pet?
