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[dotty-literati]

One year retrospective

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #FrogFriday 🐸: one of the coolest netsuke I’ve ever seen!

“a highly inventive depiction of the complete life-cycle of frogs” Netsuke, Japan, late 19th c. Ivory, W 4.2cm (1 5/8in)

[arthistoryanimalia]

Resharing for #SaveTheFrogsDay 🐸

[epiphainie]

behind every gay person is a gayer, more evil gay person

[doomeddeer-deactivated20110808]

[ghostlygooberart]

untitled (tight squeeze), 2024

18 x 19 x 23 inches

just realized i never posted this piece here?? i made this in an intro to sculpture class that i took during my last semester of college and its something im really really proud of, i learned how to weld for it!

[isuggestlandback]

If you ever wondered why they call tattoos and piercings "unprofessional" and "unsophisticated"

Source: Lainey Molnar

[classycookiexo]

Please reblog, this could really help someone

[carbon-ate]

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said to be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.

[starknesskenobi]

Tumblr when it's March 15th

[fungusamongusblg2]

David Bowie

[silversunsailing]

but i never could read your mind

[lamignonette]

[cheddar-baby]

i need to gush about how incredibly seamless her compositing is in these. Compositing is incredibly hard and time consuming work on a crisp clean digital image. But compositing into what seems to be a scanned photograph that was shot on film? Insane work. The film grain + photo paper texture is matched perfectly as well as the varying softness from being slightly out of focus in different amounts in each image. Each film stock has its own specific tone too some are warmer, others are more purply, or green and they all handle contrast with light and shadow completely differently. There was so much to take into account doing this and i really dont know how she did it other than maybe finding those locations again and shooting with the same film stock on a day with similar lighting. I cannot stress enough that for professional photographers doing complex compositing is mostly relegated to having a fully locked down camera set up in studio under controlled repeatable lighting. Super impressive and a really fantastic photo series truly.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[misanthropemom]

Masterclass in darning

[alexaloraetheris]

This is quantum physics in theory (incomprehensible unless you're a hardore math simp) but in practice it is Black Magic (you have to sell your soul and sabity in order to perform it).

[otto-von-stirlitz]

btw @ everyone who can't wrap their heads around this, here's a longer video going into more detail about prepping the damaged area and mending/darning technique with actual explanations!

[sarahthecoat]

rb with this more detailed method which will make a more lasting mend.

[rainintheevening]

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

[expressions-of-nature]

by Konstantin Grigoryev

[pabloiranzo]

Watching footage of Beatlemania, you can see in the fans’ faces that the euphoria and intensity sometimes turned them into true portraits of “scream queens” from horror cinema. Here I play with what would happen if I took that idea to exploitation movie posters, using song titles from the band and twisting their meaning.