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This is pure art.

For those curious, this was taken at the Oceti Sakowin camp during the No DAPL protests in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The photograph is titled "Defend the Sacred" by Ryan Vizzions. I did not find the name of the subject on horseback.

lobsterandskittles

#lakota #water protectors #women of color

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invisiblelad

Perpetual reblogging.

the-goddamazon-deactivingsoon-d

LOL so much was said with so few lines.

givememorgann

goawfma

smh it sure took them a minute

xeknox

Bitch wtf?

excalibelle

Ted Yoho, House Rep, R-FL, 3rd district. He is not running for re-election in 2020.

Thomas Massie, House Rep, R-KY, 4th district. He is running for re-election in November 2020, if he wins the candidacy in the republican primary on June 23.

Justin Amash, House Rep, Libertarian-MI 3rd district. He is running for re-election in November 2020, and ran an unsuccessful campaign for president this year as well.

Louie Gohmert, House Rep, R-TX, 1st district. He is running for re-election in November 2020, and has already been declared the Republican nominee.

So to our friends in (click the link to see a map and find what district you are in!):

Florida

Kentucky

Michigan

Texas

VOTE THOSE BASTARDS OUT, and fill their seats with the most progressive candidate available!

questionableholidayreally

in 2020?????

0ntheplusside

lisathewife101

This is important

audrey-hepbae

If you put a fat girl who exercises next to a skinny girl who’s on meth they’ll say the skinny one is healthiest

driflloon

blank canvas: akiima ajak for marie claire au apr. 2020

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“Me, Myself” by Avery Williams

#art #fine art #artist #avery williams #print #portrait #nature #green #surrealism #surreal #digital art #painting #native american #plants #natural #flower #self portrait

stucklikeglu-deactivated2021112

Say please & it’s all yours

stucklikeglu-deactivated2021112

If you click the pictures (individually) the quality becomes significantly more pleasing to the eye lol this app is muy ghetto honey

one-time-i-dreamt

Read more here:

"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.

awsomelink

Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.

socialistexan

Lightworks is a freeware video editor on par with Premiere

Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects

Lightzone to replace Lightroom

Inkscape to replace Illustratr

Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)

If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.

cometkins

Firealpaca/Medibang are much better alternative, FREE drawing programs, I need y’all to stop recommending GIMP because it’s bad. It’s very bad.

niuniente

GIMP really doesn’t work. If you need Photoshop alternative, take Medibang. I also recommend FireAlpaca. You can do editing similar to Medibang with FireAlpaca. Both Medibang and FireAlpaca have a tool to make comic panels easily

thesushiowl

I really like Krita! It’s a lot like Photoshop but free.

Jazza has a comparison video for all the free Photoshop alternatives on YouTube too.

mapsontheweb

Trading places; Mexico and Greenland swap place in the Mercator Projection.

butchflirt

This is fucked up

whowhatwhenwhereandwhynot

Map to illustrate the true size of countries

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sometimeslegendsdie-deactivated

the World:

Africa:

pointedahead

Check out thetruesize.com!!! You’ll find out fun things like:

gahdamnpunk

It’s almost like the producers are the problem and the consumers don’t have much control over what they’re given 🧐

mademoiselleclipon

Amina Warsuma

wet-monsoon

it’s kind of incredible how much pixar has backpedaled over the last couple of years, from the standpoint of character design

these were the kind of characters designs they had when they did their first movie with humans as their main cast

despite being cg all of the characters are visually distinct from each other and they look like 2d figures translated into a 3d environment

now it’s just???

all their human characters kind of lack that visual distinction and they’re all just? cute?

loserfuck

Alright, I wasn’t gonna comment b/c it’s kind of a waste of time, but I see a lotta folks tryin to pass off “Incredibles” designs as ‘an attempt to avoid Uncanny Valley with primitive tech’ or ‘resembling comic book art’, and a lot of other…. un-design-savvy comments.

Brad Bird had come from a background in traditional animation, he’s the guy behind this

So Lasseter (Pixar) rings up Bird like “Hey you wanna make a CG movie with us” and Bird’s like “Yeah, lemme bring my guys”, artists like Lou Romano, Teddy Newton, Tony Fucile, and Albert Lozano, who worked with Bird previously.

This may have been Pixar’s first production to feature an entirely human cast, but I think mostly what the excellence in designs boils down to is simply good artists with good taste.

And then have the fantastic designs in “Ratatouille”, also by Bird and his boys

We’ve also got the film “Up”, directed by Pete Doctor. Animated films rely on several artists for the designs of characters, set, props, ect, but it often leans towards one artist’s work. Putting other artists in charge gives “Up” a distinctive visual difference in style to Bird’s films.

You could place the blame on all these newer movies featuring mostly children characters, but I mean…..

Come on. Way to drop the ball on the chance to play with evolution in a fictional, animated setting. The issue isn’t what the tech was or wasn’t, is or isn’t capable of. This comes down to the artistic choices.

Anyway, I wish I could get more in-depth with this, but it’s difficult to find the information I need online in a timely manner, and I don’t have my books here with me.

If you’re interested in the designs/work that goes into animated films, check out the “Art Of __” books. The older ones I mean, that have actual raw concept art done for production and not just a bunch of cutsie drawings of characters b/c that’s what sells.

cozza-frenzy

The difference between then and now is simply that Pixar was bought out by Disney, and is now one of Disney’s biggest money-spinners. They make superhero movies focus-grouped for boys, princess movies focus-grouped for girls, and since Pixar movies are supposed to appeal to both those genders equally you get, well, that. A neutered, generically cute art style that lends itself to big-eyed dolls with brushable hair and cute animal plush toys that make noises when you squeeze them. I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again; Disney (and by extension, Pixar) don’t make art any more. With a few scant exceptions they haven’t made art for decades. What they make is money. What they’re selling is a brand. Their last few passion projects spent years in development hell, hemorrhaging money the entire time, so what would eventually become Tangled, Frozen, and The Good Dinosaur ended up as bland and generic simply to recoup some of that enormous loss. And by being bland and generic, they ended up turning a massive profit, so you can expect that trend to continue. A corporation that sells everything from kid-friendly cruise holidays to mickey-themed wedding packages is not going to make art. A studio that’s so creatively bankrupt that it’s now rebooting every good movie it’s ever made is not going to make art. If you want art, look to smaller studios (Laika, Reel FX), smaller, lower-budget projects (Captain Underpants), and anything that Hollywood considers ‘risky’. Expecting Disney (and Pixar) to make anything that doesn’t blandly appeal to everyone at this point is like expecting blood to come out of a stone.

analvelocity

#reblogging this makes me feel like a boomer complaining that everything used to be better when i was young

Nah, there’s more good content, real art coming out now than ever before, it’s just not coming out of Disney.

justsomeantifas

call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.

robobun

@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.

justsomeantifas

💅

aggrokawaii

Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.

amuseoffyre

Remember that time male swimmers were pulled out of training because Kate Ledecky was leaving them ‘broken’ by swimming better than them? Remember how she didn’t even notice, because she was busy actually training?

notanadult

Shooting is a sport that has no reliance on strength and so any allowance for gender variation is irrelevant. The last time there was a mixed competition (1992) a chinese woman named Zhang Shan won it.

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It’s often presented as for the benefit of women. After all, they’ll be heartbroken when they‘re hurt or bested by men.

Projection is a hell of a drug.

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yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666

this is why they drug test Serena like crazy. the believe no woman should be that good. let alone a black woman. and black women have always been considered “manly” and less feminine.

iampikachuhearmeroar

also can we talk about how surfing is segregated as well? like how the dude who won this years international surfing cup or whatever was given $30,000 worth of prize money, while the woman who won the women’s comp was only awarded like $16,000 of prize money???? or whatever it was. but I know it was either half or less than half of what the man won. like why can’t they get the same prize money and when they’re competing internationally in the same competition? they surely have the same level of skill and talent.

yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666

the pay gap in sports between men and women is fucking insane.

torukun1

The pay gaps, not to mention lack of sponsorships for women athletes who don’t look like models is insane. If you weigh over 250 pounds, no one will sponsor you. It’s why most female Olympic-class weightlifters live in poverty/out of their cars.

ixhadbadxdays

What bugs me with the pay thing is like how the US women’s soccer team kicks serious ass internationally compared to the guys’ team, and the men’s team has only won like, one championship. Women’s team was/still is paid pennies in comparison and yet they’re a far better team, more exciting to watch, and less drama.

Women’s soccer is more fun to watch because you don’t have them falling dramatically when they stub their toe on someone’s cleats. A woman goes down and you know she’s hurt. A man goes down in the game and after his dramatic wincing and what not, manages to miraculously get back to his feet and play like nothing happened.

Women are metal af in sports. Men just don’t like being shown up.