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One Nice Bug Per Day
noise dept.
Jules of Nature
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JBB: An Artblog!
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dirt enthusiast
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Origami Around
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Love Begins
we're not kids anymore.
izzy's playlists!
art blog(derogatory)
RMH
trying on a metaphor
Not today Justin
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"We see cocaine out here, but we don't see this large amounts and we don't see it in Safeway and we don't see it in banana boxes," he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/us/safeway-cocaine-bananas-trnd/index.html
More than $1 million in cocaine was found hidden in boxes of bananas at three grocery stores
One of the stores is less than 15 miles from my house.
I feel like people nowadays like to text so much because they love the drama that comes out of conversations that lack nuance and are easy to misconstrue intent.
If it takes you 7 texts to tell me how no one appreciates you, just pick up the goddam phone.
Kestrel update: I found the location of their nest! The kestrels (Falco sparverius) are nesting in a second-hand woodpecker nest in a decapitated palm. I’ve seen lots of activity, but I’m not sure if they are preparing the nest cavity, laying, or actually tending chicks. I’m looking forward to seeing this year’s brood.
WOW these are great shots! So beautiful!!
Lucius - Dusty Trails
Incredibly beautiful song, songwriting, voices.
Prepare to be amazed.
For Andrea
Map of Native American etymologies for “horse”. There were no horses in the Americas before the colonists arrived. Native Americans quickly developed new words for this strange animal, often associating them with dogs, their one other domestic animal before contact with Europe.
In Inupiaq its tuttuqpak, which means “big caribou”, which I’ve always loved. But I didn’t realize that the Creek, Choctaw, Cheyenne, and Shawnee etymologies were so similar! I love how associative animal names tend to be, like how “catfish” were named for their whiskers. What’s important about horses? They’re domesticated, they resemble other American ungulates but only have one toe, the Spanish and the French brought them (so you might as well use a loan word) and they’re quite useful for various tasks. It sounds goofy, but that’s how humans think, and its how we categorize animals- by their relationship to us, their appearance, where they’re from, and how useful they are.
To the last point, maybe the word for “dog” in some cases did not refer to dogs per se, but for some other idea or relationship.
At first I liked that the Salish word is mysterious as to meaning, but then it made me sad to think maybe there’s not enough speakers left to translate it. Or maybe nobody wants to tell what it meant exactly.
rabbit hood
Gorleston Psalter, England c. 1310-1324
BL, Add 49622, fol. 202v
Europe's right-to-repair movement is surging -- and winning
Earlier this month, European right-to-repair activists sounded the alarm, warning that the model right-to-repair legislation that had been proceeding through the EU legislative process had been hijacked by lobbyists who had gutted its core protections and were poised to make repairs even harder in the EU.
But Europeans rallied, and now they seem to have the upper hand. Pressure groups like Germany’s Schraube locker!? (Screwloose!?) have organised mass write-in campaigns and other ways of lobbying EU officials, to good effect. This week, they scored a victory over refrigerator design, securing an amendment to the EU’s pending Eco Design and Energy Label Directives (where the right-to-repair rules are enshrined) that will require refrigerator manufacturers to design their appliances to be repairable with everyday tools, and to supply their customers with spare parts and manuals so they can keep their property in good working order.
It could be a model for many kinds of devices, a return to the Maker Manifesto’s call for “screws not glue” and “user-replaceable parts.”
At the vanguard of the movement are people from ex-Soviet states, where deprivation was the mother of innovation, so that thrifty, ingenious home repairs were the key to human thriving. This ethic is also key today, if we are to reduce our material consumption, carbon footprint, and complicity in the human rights abuses committed in the name of securing the conflict minerals in our devices.
https://boingboing.net/2018/12/14/screwloose.html
SOLARPUNK SOLIDARITY
If you can’t fix it, you don’t own it.
Bayard Rustin was an openly gay Black man who was Martin Luther King’s right hand man. He planned the Million Man March and was subject to scrutiny for his sexuality and deemed a “deviant” and “pervert”.
Bayard Rustin can be found in nearly every picture of MLK yet he has undoubtedly been erased from history. We have to fix that.
Well then, let’s bring that name back.
Bayard Rustin, openly gay, human rights activist, proud black man.
(the guy on the left in case you wondered)
Yeah he was literally the guy who was the head of planning the March on Washington.
If you want to learn more about him, there’s a great documentary on him called Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
You can watch the full documentary here (until March 31st, 2016)
I did a research project on him, Ella Baker, Claudette Colvin and Stokely Carmichael comparing their contributions to the Civil Rights Movement to the lack of recognition and misrepresentation they received in commonly used high school American History textbooks. All of these people played major roles in the Civil Rights Movement—almost on par with MLK—yet they go largely unnoticed or unfairly pushed aside not only during their time, but even now in classes on American History. These men and women deserve to be remembered.
if you don’t know the difference between a hare and a rabbit you’ve never gazed into the cold wild eyes of a hare and known that if it could speak it would speak backwards
Jack Rabbits are North American Hares and they’re the WORST to encounter at night becuase:
You all know how big a rabbit is. Jack Rabbits and hares are much bigger. they’re the size of large cats or small dogs or just-walking-age children.
They also like to hang out in gangs of a hlf dozen to over 30.
and in the middle of backcountry dirt roads.
perhaps they’re dustbathing
or blood sacrifce
I don’t know because when you come up the road at night because your dog has a tiny bladder and needs to go out at midnight and you have no yard so you’re walking him on the dirt road around your neighborhod because you might aw well get some stargazing in, and you come just over the ridge to see a coven of twenty jackrabbits in the middle of the road
and
they
all
stand
up
not just onto all fours like a proper prey animal
No they get up on thier hind legs and don’t just sit but STAND like tiny rabbit-skinned toddlers, wobbing slightly as they stare directly at you eyes shining in your flashlight’s glow
…Blood Red.
And a chill goes through you on that warm july night because while they’re a puntable size and allegedly herbivores they’re standing and watching you just like people and you are vastly outnumbered.
everyone freezes
you’re considering your odds aganst roughly 200lbs of Suspiciously Humanoid Hare
and they’re considering their odds against you
the only sound in the never-ending high desert wind
somewhere in your peripheral vision you can see the streetlights but they seem awfully far away
The nearest Jack Rabbit
Blinks
and takes a single shuffling step
forward
You area an overdevloped monkey and your prefrontal cortex is capable of some amazing feats but it runs very slowly compared to the reflexes of a rabbit and you’re frozen as you desperately scramble for the appropriate course of action, hands feeling thick and useless, mouth dry and feet imeasurably heavy there’s no way you’d outrun THESE, god there’s a rabies outbreak going around that shit’s not curable-
The Dog
L U N G E S
It’s only the briefest of movements but the animal you’d picked out for his gangly legs and floppy ears and goofy smile is suddenly a dark shape of muscle and teeth and had flung himself at the horrible goblin rabbits faster than mere physics should dictate, appearing in the circle of the flashlight for only the briefest of moments before the jolt from the leash makes you stumble and the light falters
The Jack Rabbits
Scatter
Vanishing into the faintly starlit sagebrush in as so many faint gray shapes that might be mistaken for the dustclouds they kick up
Later, you sit on the couch disquieted
and you wonder
If the sight of the Jack Rabbits standing and studying you was frightening enough to make you yearn for the safety of the yellowed streetlights
what must it be like from thier end?
what terrifying creature
deliberately ties itself
to something so horrible
As a Dog?
@gallusrostromegalus that last bit gave me such a strong mental image I absolutely had to draw it
WELL HOLY SHIT.
CONGRATULATE, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GOING FOR.
is it ok if I print it out and stick it on the fridge?
Brilliant story, brilliant drawing.
Would any if you peeps be interested in if I made a little post about spray paint? Like I want to show some people how I do it and maybe if y'all feel like it y'all can try it
Nobody said yes but
TO BAD
let’s
Do this
Step one
Get some supplies obviously, all you will need is
Spray paint (doesn’t even have to be much, you can do this with 3-4 colors or 1000)
Glossy paper. Photo paper also works, you can figure it out
Anything round to make the planet with that can cover it up
Determination
Also a snack.
Step two
Cover yo thang
You’re just gonna spray enough so that you’ll be able to make out the shape, you don’t need much at all and it’s even better if you don’t use much.
Look at that nice circle
Step three
color, this part is so fun and you can do anything you want with it, i made mine the pansexual flag
I know it looks crazy but trust me, you’re gonna have to cover it up with a few colors.
Think about where you want the light to come from, the black is the shadow farthest from the light, the white is where the light is shining on it and the yellow in the middle is so that it’s not so bland. For the color in the middle put whatever was underneath right there (or not I’m not your mom)
STEP FOURRR
You’re gonna ball up some paper and lay it over it, will the paper to get some if the paint up and lift
I wasn’t to happy so I did it again, you can do this as much or as little as you want.
This looks better to me.
Step whatever
More shadows, this is optional but I prefer it. Black in the bottom and white on the top as before but this time not as much so the color comes through
STEP TO THE LEFT NOW YALL
Okay cover it up againnnn
Paint that while thing black. The entire thing, completely. This is always fun
The bright side (light)
Okay this is optional but I love it, I’m gonna add light… Just look
sooo start with blue in the corner where it’s coming from and a bit in the other side behind the planet, stay with me on this.
White to brighten it up…..
Now another fun part
Stars
You can do this anyway you want, I just put on a glove and spray some on two of my fingers and flick it on but there’s loads of ways, check it.
THATS SO SIMPLE AND IT LOOKS AMAZING
now the reveal…..
SO PRETTY
Inspiring! I’m already having ideas of what my planet would look like.
Norman Lewis: brilliant, original, unmatched.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in NYC, which specializes in modern and contemporary African American art, sent me a VIP pass for two to the Seattle Art Fair, for the second year in a row. I’m so grateful; I wouldn’t go otherwise.
Today I went with a friend who is more of a browser rather than someone who wants to really commune with art. I am thinking if I finish my chores early I may go back tomorrow so that I can spend time with the paintings and sculptures I really liked. And if I do I may ask MRG to pull out the other Norman Lewis pieces so I can see all that they brought, not just the couple on the walls in their booth.
Pregnant af but also cute af tbh
You are so beautiful and glowing, Pam!!!
The goatpocalypse is upon us. (via KTVBJoe)
i for one welcome our new goat overlords
They want to eat your lawns
One of those things that are both unfortunate (for the people suffering damage) and totally hilarious (goats on the loose! Many many goats!!)
Land of The Giants Project for Iceland
This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape.Choi + Shine,is the US architecture practice behind the proposal
Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, we have created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn and variable. These iconic pylon-figures will become monuments in the landscape. Seeing the pylon-figures will become an unforgettable experience, elevating the towers to something more than merely a functional design of necessity.
The pylon-figures can be configured to respond to their environment with appropriate gestures. As the carried electrical lines ascend a hill, the pylon-figures change posture, imitating a climbing person. Over long spans, the pylon-figure stretches to gain increased height, crouches for increased strength or strains under the weight of the wires.
The pylon-figures can also be arranged to create a sense of place through deliberate expression. Subtle alterations in the hands and head combined with repositioning of the main body parts in the x, y and z-axis, allow for a rich variety of expressions. The pylon-figures can be placed in pairs, walking in the same direction or opposite directions, glancing at each other as they pass by or kneeling respectively, head bowed at a town.
Like the statues of Easter Island, it is envisioned that these one hundred and fifty foot tall, modern caryatids will take on a quiet authority, belonging to their landscape yet serving the people, silently transporting electricity across all terrain, day and night, sunshine or snow.
Working link to this amazing design here: http://www.choishine.com/Giants.html
if there’s one thing I’ve learned in 20-some-odd years in fandom, it’s that I should not be writing this post
So a reader left a comment on byw 56 (really, more than one reader, and more than one comment) which I am addressing on Tumblr instead of on the AO3, because, basically, I did not have room to write a five thousand word essay back to them in my comments. I also apologize for my somewhat stilted use of no contractions before the cut; I am trying to get around a Tumblr bug that turns apostrophes and quotation marks and emdashes into display garbage on the dash.
First, let me back up for a second, because, to me, the most important part of my reply is my reasoning for why I am not, in fact, going to reply very directly to the actual specific questions that these specific readers asked. WELP SORRY! I apologize for this if it is frustrating; but, as those of you that have been around here for a while know, while I was in grad school (and before that when I was kind of perpetually underemployed) my primary source of income was tutoring K-12 students. Unsurprisingly, since I was headed for a STEM graduate degree, I taught a lot of math, but my primary tutoring area of focus was actually critical reading for students who were preparing for the SAT (note for non-U.S. readers: the SAT is the main ~college preparatory readiness~ exam in the U.S., your score on which heavily influences university admissions). And a big part of why I often do not like to answer questions about my writing, including some of the questions that these particular readers raised in these particular comments, is because for most of my adult life, I have fed and clothed and housed myself by failing to answer questions about writing by other people. When you are teaching someone to read critically, particularly when you are teaching young people to read critically, the most effective thing you can do is, very frequently, to not answer their questions, but to do so in a considered and deliberate way.
(Note: If talking about the idea of critical reading in a fannish context is going to peel your onions, you should maybe stop reading this essay right now.)
Keep reading
Masterclass on critical reading and writing right here. Exceptionally helpful in thinking about writing queer sex.
I just spent a solid half hour reading this post and I’m very glad I did. What a thoughtful and engaging response.
Fantastic read any time, but I’m really glad it’s the first thing I read this Sunday morning.
Erie Street, Lowell, Arizona.
Lowell hardly exists as a place. Most of the town was demolished during the excavation of the Lavender copper pit mine in the 1950s, and what remains today is a strip of storefronts on Erie Street. The scant remnants of the township are consolidated with Bisbee, Arizona.
I love these photos and I’m glad a place like this still exists in America.
