Fatma Loves to Draw!

Fatma Al-Remaihi is a drawer in the virtual world, a graphic designer in "real life." In other words, being in the wrong place at the wrong time all the time.

[fatmalovestodraw]

10:AM.

The Watchers

First let me say: Wow! It has been too long since i’ve felt this excited and moved watching a movie.

Yesterday morning when i sat with my dad, with him drinking red tea and me sipping my half/half instant black coffee, i had no idea i was going to rate this movie with two thumps up. I played it, and the first four minutes were just not doing it for me. So i said: no way i’m watching this movie! and i turned the tv off and went on chatting with my dad until my nephew joined us and we shifted the conversation into one that was more inclusive or should i say more age appropriate.

However, this morning and as i sat to have my breakfast i decided since i do not have anything to watch, let me give the movie The Watchers another chance. I was in a good mood because i was eating boiled eggs. (Eggs make me happy)

Anyways, fast forward to the last parts of the movie, and i apologize if i’m spoiling it for you but OMG the moment the halfling got her wings!! Omg that made the movie for me. I loved it.

Yeah, that is all. I enjoyed the movie and i would recommend it.

[shisasan]

“At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

[petaltexturedskies]

But I do feel strange—almost unearthly. I’ll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

[nohoperadio]

Scooby-Doo is a dog who can talk, which is amazing, and he largely uses his powers of speech to communicate how scared he is of ghosts and monsters, and basically the only thing his owners do is drive him around the country putting him inside various haunted houses and such. I wish I could take Scooby-Doo aside, I want to say to him, these people are not your friends.

[thegikitiki]

Home Decor, 1994

[thegikitiki]

Source: The Giki Tiki Archives

[hollisbrownthornton]

[huariqueje]

East Coast - David Leonard

American , b. 1962 -

Oil on canvas ,  18 x 26 in.

[quinnmil]

[symptomofloves]

home in cardigan, uk

[primulaceas]

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

[sharmonjarmon]

Perception

Perception is the cognitive process by which the brain gathers, organizes, and interprets sensory information to make sense of the world. It allows us to understand our surroundings by giving meaning to what we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell. [1, 2, 3]

Key Components of Perception

Sensation: The physical detection of environmental stimuli (e.g., light waves entering the eye or sound waves vibrating the eardrum). Sensation provides the raw data. [1]

Bottom-Up Processing: Using direct, raw sensory information from the environment to build understanding. It is the "what am I looking at?" phase. [1, 2]

Top-Down Processing: Using prior knowledge, memory, expectations, and context to interpret sensory data. It explains how we can read poorly written handwriting or recognize a familiar scent based on context. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Perceptual Set: Our psychological tendency to notice certain stimuli while ignoring others, heavily influenced by our past experiences, culture, and current motivation. [1, 2, 3, 4]

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[fatmalovestodraw]

10pm

It is my birthday today. And i find myself waiting.. hoping for a message from you…

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[fatmalovestodraw]

10AM

Dear Diary,

I cried with someone this morning and it was beautiful.

Thank you D.

[fatmalovestodraw]

Today is the fourth day of Eid. Happy and blessed Eid to all.

[fatmalovestodraw]

12pm

As i am sitting on my white Swedish chair holding a Moyra Davey book in my hand, i start to wonder about the future of writing, as well as the future of drawing. I honestly imagine a future where it will be rare to see people drawing in a sketchbook using pens and pencils, what with Artificial Intelligence.