Espresso After Dark

Cristins. 30 oh god no. She/Her. Almost always some insomnia blogging. I have a precious fur daughter and fur son. I like to reblog shit. :D

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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE TELL MARKIPLIER

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no fucking way

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A Lady and her Knight

Fanart for The Mandalorian

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Sam & Danny 💜

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maxwell the cat in gouache as a gift for my husband, esteemed silly maxwell video enjoyer

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SOMETIME IN THE LAST WEEK MY SCHOOL PUT UP A LARGE BANNER DEDICATED TO THE :-) EMOTICON

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[id: a banner with a huge image of the :-) (smiley face with nose) emoticon captioned “smiley / first emoted here / 19 september 1982 / computer science department / www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley / carnegie mellon.” end id]

happy birthday :-) face

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it’s that time of the year again everyone say happy 40th birthday :-)

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This is apparently what was contained in the original message that invented the :-) and I'm obsessed with Fahlman's diction here

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can you trigger tag bisexuality please

no but i can fuck both your parents

[theta-sigma]

Statue based on Leonardo daVinci’s famous concept for artificial wings.

This is so fucking beautiful!

[toolusingmammalgirl]

Disconnected Thoughts on Art Reproduction:

Hokusai’s Great Wave fascinates me because, unlike almost every other artwork in that bracket of fame, it was never a bespoke piece that was only later reproduced. It was a commercial print right from the start, and while versions of it can be identified as belonging to different print runs, there is no meaningful ‘original’ aside from the long-since-discarded printing plates.

Even better, this state has been imposed on artworks that were once unique. In 2021, the art collective MSCHF bought an Andy Warhol sketch at auction for $20,000, made 999 meticulous forgeries of it, shuffled them to destroy any record of which was the original, and sold each piece for $250 as Possibly Real Copy of ‘Fairies’ by Andy Warhol, by MSCHF.

As with many smartass art collectives, MSCHF’s projects range from eye-rolling to kinda clever to brilliant, but I think this is their magnum opus. It has exactly the kind of unwieldy literal title I adore. The original work has been arguably destroyed, but in a way that Warhol would adore. It’s the most pointed way to ask art buyers, do you care about the actual artistry of the work or just the bragging rights of owning the original?

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Artistic domains where reproduction is trivial are often prone to the Superstar Problem: Why would I listen to the world’s 50th-best cellist when I can stream all the Yo-Yo Ma I want just as easily? NFTs were pitched as a solution to this, marking the original or master copy of a natively-digital work to let it retain value. But even if the crypto market didn’t have its own 2008 every few weeks, I don’t want fine-art auction houses to be the future of digital art, especially when there are already plenty of existing ways to mitigate the problem. A fursona, a tabletop-game character, a niche Blorbo, etc. are all bespoke value-adds that enable a much greater range of artists to get commissions. But these require a culture of art fans who don’t care about flipping it at Christie’s, often overlapping with fannish cultures where plenty of artists operate at all experience levels.

I don’t have any tidy conclusions for this, but I just want to say that an earlier version of this process - “paint me a biblical scene, and put me in it to flex my wealth and piety” - culminated in one of the funniest artworks I’ve ever seen, Francisco de Zurbarán’s Christ Crucified (With Donor):

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An interesting addition to this discussion is that Tumblr or another scrolling newsfeed-based site is absolutely the funniest way to encounter this painting for the first time. I was not prepared. Thank you, OP.

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YEAH, I was like “well, I don’t see what’s so funny about–THERE it is.” Actual lol.

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this is how i saw the n64 graphics when i was a kid

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[mochiwei]

Dawn of a new day 🌄

Print available here!

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"the backrooms and liminal spaces are less scary when you throw in a monster that lurks around" alright but how about a gloryhole. would you trust the interdimensional backrooms gloryhole. are you a bad enough dude to risk having the forces that lay at the heart of darkness warp your junk into cow tools.

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move outta my way gayboy im boutta get it

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my cock has turned into the house of leaves

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[the-raven-babes]

Gansey is probably busty. Like he’s built up top. my reasons: he was on the rowing team.

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