beloved

Portland, OR

[hechocon]

Soft linens and gentle kisses you can only share in dreams.

[visual-infinity]

A school of fish following a duck

[squareallworthy]

Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts?

[squareallworthy]

Well, you see, kids, almost twenty years ago Apple produced a portable audio player called – wait, I need to go back further.

[squareallworthy]

Okay, so in the 20th century, the new inventions of radio and television were known as broadcast media – no, wait, that’s not really the start either –

[squareallworthy]

Broadcasting originally refers to throwing, or casting, handfuls of seeds onto prepared ground, typically used with grain crops, which, uh –

[squareallworthy]

– the Agrucultural Revoution, which begain circa 10,000 BC in the Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting –

[hechocon]

This how you end up with a research paper

[womansart]

Embroidery by Turkish textile artist Irem Yazici

[simena]

Carl Reichert - Cat idyll (detail)

[detailedart]

Detailedit: L'étoile double ☆² (The Double Star), c.1881, Luis Ricardo Falero. | “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” — Norman Vincent Peale

[mona-l1sa]

[seaoflove]

art dealing with the concept of: the sublime

“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.” ― Jane Austen

The Monk by the Sea & / Wanderer above the Sea of Fog / Moonrise over the Sea / Evening Landscape with Two Men /  Woman Before Rising Sun – by Caspar David Friedrich

[artfilmfan]

The Booksellers (D.W. Young, 2019)

[myfairynuffstuff]

Robbie Wraith (b.1952) - Toast and Marmalade. Oil on panel.

[latinecore]

you think kindness doesn't exist you fucking pathetic nihilist? how about you look into the big beautiful eyes of a cow? what do you think now? asshole

[snootyfoxfashion]

Mystical Woodland Animal Art Prints by RivuletPaperShop

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[convexly]

untitled by SamAlive on Flickr.

[filmforwomen]

tenderness is in the hands

[markv5]

[hoziergf-deactivated20181219]

I always get so fucking mad when I remember that it’s actually a 16-year-old Algerian girl who influenced BOTH Picasso and Matisse. and. No one gives a rat’s ass about her work which was very focused on women and nature. History -or people dare I say- didn’t bother to remember her name because she was a young Algerian woman and no one cares about Maghrebi/Arab women. unlike P*casso & M*tisse who both became legends, almost gods both during their lives and after their deaths, no one knows her.

Her name was Baya Mahieddine.

[dirtinmypocket-deactivated20210]

[sliceofpearpie]

i hope that more people know about her now, especially seeing as OP literally linked to an article about a Baya Mahieddine exhibition in 2018.

It is remarkable that she had such a strong practise and had great influence at 16. Despite various disruptions that caused her to stop painting, she returned to her practise from the 60s until the end of her life.

It was within her work that Baya found freedom. The world she painted, after all, is one where women assert their individuality and are free from the men who attempt to brand them with labels, keep them inside the home, or hold them back in any way. “If I change my paintings, I will no longer be Baya,” the artist said in 1991, after her husband died and she’d returned to painting. “When I paint, I am happy and I am in another world.”

More on Mahieddine’s work here.

[dailyoverview]

Rice paddies cover the mountainsides of Yuanyang County, China. Constructed in “steps” by the Hani people for the last 1300 years, the slope of the terraces varies from 15 to 75 degrees with some having as many as 3,000 steps! The stunning colors that you see here are indeed real and result from the presence of water and certain plants within the terraces.

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23°09′32″N, 102°44′41″E

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