Uncle Karl's Choupette

[dandismodextrarradio]

[lascitasdelashoras]

Egon Schiele - Still Life

[hayworth-rita]

BETTE DAVIS as Margo Channing in ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

[socialistexan]

Wishing all amab nb people who don't perform the femininity or androgyny that people expect from non-cis amab people a very nice Friday.

[fairytaleprincessart]

[itscolossal]

Tia Keobounpheng’s Vibrating Textile Geometries Merge Modernism and Sámi Heritage

[karlsauraus]

Farthingale! How do I create this wide ass skirt of 1580s Elizabeth I in a contemporary mashup? I want the conical smooth lines of the earlier Spanish farthingale era along with this wide hem. I don’t care if Alcega thought the wide hems were too much. In order to avoid the heavy gathering at the waist I had to pattern in a way that makes it impossible to avoid sewing two bias (diagonal) side seams. Traditionally you sew one bias seam to a straight (vertical) seam to prevent stretching. Enter these precious lemons putting in some extra elbow grease in a modern couture technique. Much love Vionnet! I think I need some metal chain to continue stretching further around the hemline. Too many lemons and I couldn’t keep the skirt hanging. Heavy!

Next is some trouble shooting how to make the boning in a way that is actually attractive. The early farthingale imagery from Spain shows that the boning was actually decorative and seen rather than hidden under gown layers like in Tudor England and basically every underpinning since. Although modern couturiers often like to play with the inside supports on the outside. Which is what I’m going to do. But I also want to play with the tactile experience of making ‘bents’ or hoops. So I’m going to braid grasses and jute for this first iteration. I have two more farthingale mashup ideas increasing in formality. So this is a softer more informal experiment. More like a summer dress but HUGE. I mean, the hem is going to be somewhere around 221.” It’s highly likely the next two will be even larger because, why play around with my evil royal ancestors’ fashion if not to have fun dammit! Us peasants can have fun too!

[karlsauraus]

This election couldn’t have come at a worse time. While I’m dealing with one of the worst emergencies of my life.

[karlsauraus]

Happy Halloween!!! This has been quite a year for acquiring plants. This is Amorphophalus titanum, the holy grail of aroids. What my friend and I colloquially call the dick plant. And, being this the most high holy of holidays, appropriately a child of ‘Audrey’ and ‘Little Shop Of Horrors.’ Proud titanum parents I’m sure. These generally only get traded between prestigious botanical gardens and nursery professionals. Since more and more specimens are flowering and pollen is traded, new generations are beginning to crop up. Which means you too might have a dick plant some day. It’s been demonstrated to respond well to propagation by leaf cuttings also. Now, to grow it up to a juicy 100lbs hahahahahaaha!!!!! Feed it blood? This is at minimum an eight year endeavor in the best of conditions. And I don’t have a greenhouse yet….Meet the newest member of my family, SuddenlySeymour!

[karlsauraus]

This is finally an affordable orchid. This is a childhood dream come true. Some people are still hoarding it behind a steep paywall though. Why I don’t know, especially since it’s likely to only persist in our collections and not the wild. So the more homes the merrier.

[unhelpfultarot]

Six of Wands and The Tower

There's a fine line between making an official visit to the site of the crisis, and disaster tourism.

[socialistexan]

Wishing all amab nb people who don't perform the femininity or androgyny that people expect from non-cis amab people a very nice Friday.

[zegalba]

2,000 year old Olive tree in Greece

[nevver]

Color palette, David Fullarton

[karlsauraus]

I have warned the straights in my life that gay wrath might hit them. And it may not subside until at least Halloween season depending on how things are going.

[mutant-distraction]

[lonequixote]

Mark Rothko

Navy and Black

(via @lonequixote)