Nicco Palazzi @niccobuildings - Tumblr Blog

there are people you haven’t met yet who will love you

Apelles symbolicus (1699). [x]

The Whale… If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

This is why animals are smart af

“THANK YOU, TINY CREATURES.”

“Whale, it was nice to meet ya.“

HI TUMBLR WORLD.

I don’t use tumblr much anymore, but I’m hoping that this platform can still bring me some visibility. I spent the past year and a half illustrating my own deck of tarot cards as my senior thesis project at Parsons: The New School for Design. Each character shown in the deck is someone from my community that I felt personally embodied the meaning of their specific card; so you can trust and believe that each face you see has lived and breathed those experiences.

The printing company I am using requires me to make a bulk order of 100 decks in order to print in the way that I would like to. Seeing as I don’t have those funds, I am trying to get 100 people to support the project and buy a deck so that I may finally see a years work turn into a tangible product! For a donation of $65 or more on my “gofundme” page, I am sending each buyer a deck complete with a gold-foil stamped tuck-box for the cards to go into. Each card was illustrated in ball point pen, sprayed with alcohol, and then placed under a laser cut frame specific to that cards suit. If I could make this thing happen and also be able to share the project with the community that originally inspired it, that would make me the happiest person alive. Spread the word!

The link to gofundme page is https://www.gofundme.com/tarot-aldo-2veuwg9w and you can also see the rest of the work and learn more about the project at my website niccopalazzi.com I assure you the end result will be worth it! THANK YOU