he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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cherry valley forever
styofa doing anything
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Kaledo Art
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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Misplaced Lens Cap
RMH
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Andulka
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
we're not kids anymore.
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Product Placement
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Hi, my name is Erica, I'm 29 years old, and for the last 10 years I've been working as a caregiver for … Erica Rizzo needs your support for My mom was my job
Not sure I’m going to make it past October if I don’t get help to be honest. I’m job hunting but it’s slow going.
Even sharing is helpful!
Hi, my name is Erica, I'm 29 years old, and for the last 10 years I've been working as a caregiver for … Erica Rizzo needs your support for My mom was my job
Not sure I’m going to make it past October if I don’t get help to be honest. I’m job hunting but it’s slow going.
Even sharing is helpful!
Ridiculous.
this is great it’s been a while since everybody logged on and chose violence
Yet again people underestimate the tumblr population's instinctual drive to lose this site money.
That awkward moment when you haven’t been on in three years so your profile says you’re 26 when you’re really 29.
It’s the season of pink 🌸
Any story which refers to Haiti as an impoverished nation, which is all of them, should also mention that when Haitians won their independence from France, French gunships showed up and demanded they pay something like 22 billion dollars in today's money to compensate France for the stolen land and enslaved people they could no longer exploit
It took Haiti over a hundred years to pay that ransom and it's difficult to explain just how badly that fucked up their entire development, especially since France also demanded a 50% discount on everything they bought from Haiti just to make it harder. Like! No wonder they're impoverished!
Anyway if France would like to assist Haiti in its current difficulties they could always pay back the fucking money they extorted
happy Thursday the 20th
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
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Blizzard I've supported you for a while. I was really excited for Overwatch for switch, but mark my words you will not get another coin from me until you make this right. And if you wont? Fine, but I want you to actually go to Hong Kong. I want you to look their people in the eye and tell them that your market value is worth more than their human rights. I hope you change, Blizzard.
Anyone who is following me PLEASE read up on the Hong Kong protests/police brutality and try not to support any company that is against the protesters. This is a fight for human rights it is so much bigger than just video game drama. They are suppressing the free speech of people fighting for their rights.
Okay im really curious because im not in the modern art fandom and i haven't heard any dissenting opinions on the subject, youre the first ive seen. Why are you team kapoor and why is vantablack exclusivity a good thing?
I mean, my predominant reason for being Team Kapoor is the fact that Anish Kapoor and I are both petty Indian Jews, and petty Indian Jews must stick together no matter what.
But I will say that people have also modified the narrative about the vantablack to make it seem like vantablack was being regularly produced for everyone until Kapoor bought the rights, and that’s not true. His partnership with the company that produces it is what allowed them to make it for art purposes at all, because it was incredibly expensive and difficult to make. He effectively commissioned it for use, and while I get that other artists are somewhat annoyed and disappointed by that, I also feel that the way people have made a Jewish artist of Colour out to be a Bond Villain thwarting a white British guy is kind of unsavoury.
As someone who started out strongly “team Semple” and has since done a 180 switch, I want to expand on this a bit:
1. Semple was not in any way struggling artist when his feud with Kapoor started. In 2007, he sold over $1mil of art in one show. He was featured on the BBC 3 times before he even released his pigments and he was awarded a medal from The House of Lords in 2013. It’s BS to pretend he’s some poor lowly artist fighting “The Man” (that is actually an Indian Jewish immigrant). He’s been a very successful artist in his own right for a long time. He isn’t an underdog here… like at all. Painting him as one is ridiculous, and yet that’s how he’s been made out this entire time.
2. To expand on that, characterizing Anish Kapoor, a brown Indian Jewish man living in Britain, as “The Man” is highly suspect, and the fact that anyone would use the word “elitist” about a Jewish person is a pretty loud dogwhistle in my Jewish opinion (this is in reference to multiple sources, but mainly another tumblr post, that calls Kapoor “the epitome of the art world’s elitsm problem” X).
3. Semple had been working on his pigments for years before Vantablack became a thing. The pigments would have been made and released anyway, this was just excellent publicity. So a white (not poor) British man leveraged the controversy made by a British-Indian Jewish man to sell more of his own product. He played up the feud for sales. That is what happened. And in the process he made said British-Indian Jewish man, who was previously little known outside the art world other than for his art like The Bean, one of the most hated figures in the world. So. That’s a lens we really need to be looking through I think.
4. As OP mentioned, Vantablack was prohibitively expensive and insanely difficult to work with (can only be used in very small sections, must be applied only to specific materials in a specific lab setting) when Kapoor bought the rights to it. Most artists wouldn’t have been able to use it anyway for either or both of those reasons. No one was even using it for art when he bought the rights, it was still considered experimental science. Everyone got their panties twisted up when he did anyway. Whether it was right or wrong can still be debated for sure, but it certainly isn’t like he took a highly usable substance away from other artists.
It’s just really interesting to me how we all - myself included - jumped right on the narrative of the evil rich exotic brown Asian Jewish artìst hoarding the artistic wealth while the poor white European underdog came to the art world’s rescue with his accessible pigments (which just happened to be ready for production at the exact same time as the purchase of the rights to Vantablack!) to save the blackest black creations of the world. Like. That is a really interesting and very convenient narrative, dontcha think? And who, ultimately, benefits from that narrative? Bc it’s not reality.
I am also struck by the fact that I have never seen any ire toward Surrey NanoSystems for agreeing to the contract. Curious how the corporation has received no blame for “allowing” the substance to become exclusive. If the license really was so evil, they could have said “No! We want our product to be available to all artists!*”
*…who can actually pay for how incredibly expensive it is, and whose work is fireproof enough to withstand the high-temperature application process, and, also, can pass the strict UK control regulations regarding the distribution of the substance. All artists!
Living for these additions.
Also Kapoor’s art is better
im jewish and have been following the stuart semple thing for years and this is literally the very first time i heard kapoor was jewish. holy shit.
Daniel Danger, Recent Work.
Recent work from the always spectacular Daniel Danger (Previously on Supersonic Art).
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Aziraphale’s phone rings. He answers, expecting it to be Crowley. But to his surprise, it’s a demon he’s never met.
“I’m Crowley’s replacement,” the demon says. “He’s not done anything impressive lately, and Downstairs doesn’t like how ineffective he is at keeping you in line. So now he’s shuffling paperwork and scooping up hellhound shit while I do his job for him.”
“Ah… I see,” Aziraphale says icily. “Well, I most assuredly do not look forward to working with you.”
The demon laughs. “Feeling’s mutual.”
Twenty-four hours later, the demon is very surprised to find himself discorporated in his sleep. He can’t explain what happened, he has absolutely no idea.
“Don’t let it happen again,” Beelzebub says, annoyed, and sends the demon back up.
After a mere three days, the demon ends up discorporated again.
A new replacement is sent up. This one lasts for a week and a day.
A third replacement is sent up. This one lasts for exactly four hours.
Three demons are sent up next time. Two manage to stay alive for at least five months. In that time, they botch four very important temptations, and the citizens of London inexplicably find their daily lives much improved in thousands of little ways. Traffic and pollution are nonexistent, injury and illness are miraculously avoided. Church attendance is up five hundred percent, and every politician and CEO is struck by the urge to donate as much money as possible to charity. There’s a general feeling of contentedness and goodwill in the air that wasn’t there before. It feels downright heavenly.
Suddenly, Beelzebub is having a very hard time finding anyone to take Crowley’s post. Bribes and threats make no difference. The rumors have spread and only grown more disturbing in the telling. Not one demon is willing to go up there and face the cold, calculated, merciless wrath of the angel known as Aziraphale.
Crowley absolutely loses it when someone gets around to telling him. “Y’know, I could’ve warned you,” he says gleefully. “Been working with him for thousands of years. I know exactly how much of a bastard he can be.”
After running the numbers and seeing how many souls they’ve lost to Heaven in the past year, Beelzebub gives up and concludes that trying to replace Crowley is a massive waste of resources Hell can’t afford.
After one year, Aziraphale receives another phone call. He answers, with bated breath, and nearly shouts for joy when he hears a familiar voice.
“Hi, angel. Lunch on me?”
OP this is exactly, completely, my kind of Aziraphale characterization I’m in love with this little fic
Makeover Time with Fashionista Steven!
I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.
The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.
Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”
She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”
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Every plotline of Steven Universe
alien: we’re supposed to be mindless tools but I’m weird
steven: that’s called an emotion and it’s normal
alien: oh my fucking god
