YOU ARE THE REASON
Sade Olutola
EXPECTATIONS
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
trying on a metaphor
izzy's playlists!
@theartofmadeline
occasionally subtle
Product Placement
The Bowery Presents
Andulka
Xuebing Du
Jar Jar Binks Fan Club
cherry valley forever
hello vonnie
RMH
Monterey Bay Aquarium
tannertan36
Mike Driver
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Slouchy "TIRED" Hat (II)
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Behold it in all of its unblocked glory.
After many years, the TIRED hat has been remade. The finer gauge (Light weight yarn, size three needles) allows it to fit under headphones easier. Made without any actual pattern, and charted the text myself, but would still call it a success.
(Original seen here.)
Moon landing paper for Moon Day, and an ambitious vision for 1990
Katherine G. Johnson
African American Woman who was crucial to getting us to the moon
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
A country where the only place you've been is an airport on a layover, Earth
Have you been here?
I have been here
I have not been here
July is Disability Pride Month! Happy Disability Pride Month from all of us at ASAN!
For the interwoven wha fashion zine!
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.” Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet).
Link to the Guide at Project Gutenberg can be found here
A Wikisource entry can be found here.
Mirrors can be found here, here, here, here and here.
Gosh it would be a shame if this got even MORE visibility.
Whoops my cursor slipped.
The end doesn't always feel like it. People come and go; they slip through the door when you're not looking and never come back. Sometimes there are no goodbyes.
— Kevin Hazzard, American Sirens
I'm going to do another mokuhanga artist in residence program in little over a month. I had to submit a project plan for my application, but for that I only needed to describe what I wanted to do. It's based on the picture below I made in Hamarikyu gardens in Tokyo.
I'm sure there's time to sketch and stuff during the program, but considering the fact that I like detail and thus it will take a while to carve out each block, I thought it best to start now. This is a quick sketch to see of the separation and layering of colours I planned works. I think it does! If this is correct I will need six wood blocks (or three when I use both sides) for eight colours.
I'm not done sketching though. I want to experiment with the shape of the clouds in any case. I think it might also be smart to make a digital sketch, because with watercolours I can only add shapes and colours, and a digital drawing will allow me to simulate carving stuff out.
"Lesbian welders, San Francisco", n.d. From the Visual Arts Legacy Collection (JSTOR)
brushbug banging out the tunes
[ID: A looping gif of the brushbuddy from Witch Hat Atelier patting its paws repeatedly, edited to have a PNG of a toy xylophone (the same one from the "Neil banging out the tunes" photo) beside it so it looks like the brushbuddy is playing it. End ID]
What if we KISSED on the TRANS TRAIN?!
[ID: Photograph of a passenger train car in a station. The horizontal window panel has been wrapped with diagonally-set transgender pride flag colors.]
Weirdly into being one of the absurd mass of people who, at two in the morning today, remembered how boss the 2015 Studio Killers song “Jenny” is.
On the other hand, why??? How are we all here?
Last week I went out to a lake in Appalachia and I made a zine about changing, about moving forward, about the most frightening and meaningful dream I've ever had.
the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child
This only applies to the modern show breeds of sewing machines. Heritage breeds like the Singer 27, 15, 66, and 201 are docile and extremely hardy. They're easy keepers, requiring oil and the occasional light bulb to maintain working condition. Treadle and crank varieties thrive on an electricity-free diet. Injuries, while rare, are quickly resolved thanks to a thriving aftermarket parts trade. In cases of severe neglect, percussive maintenance via sledgehammer can restore motion.
If you make goth clothing, decor, accessories, etc
please
please please please
please stop putting crosses on literally everything.
I know that they're a staple of goth fashion. I know. But not everyone is Christian. Not everyone wants to wear or surround themselves with Christian symbols. There are a lot of goths who would die happy if we they never had to see a cross again. Please.
This really resonated with folks, huh.
