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Came across this art installation, Liza Lou's Kitchen, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. It's a kitchen made of tiny glass beads, that artist Liza Lou did, taking 5 yrs. to complete, from 1991 - 1996.

My favorite part is the sink.

cowinf

🎉BABY'S FIRST ZINE! 🎉

Or...first Handmade zine anyways, haha. I hacked my childhood 3ds recently, and it really got me thinkin about my favorite games throughout the years. I printed, cut and stapled all the zines myself, and all the artwork was done traditionally! They're debuting at TCAF in June and I'll be sure to have them at any subsequent events. Hooray for handheld gaming!

lookalivealivealive

rathayibacter

sometimes artists worry if their art is actually capable of making the world a better place, or if its all just wasted effort. what you need to remember is: all art is evil, and the sole aspiration of the artist should be to maim as many onlookers as possible.

desolationlesbian

I don't want to buy mass-produced garbage from a big box store so I go to etsy but half of etsy is now dropshipped mass-produced garbage or AI slop so I go to the local arts and crafts street market but a ton of those booths are also selling the same generic plastic objects or identical stickers or 3D printed dragons so WHERE do I buy real trinkets and art from sincere freaks

suonko

by Aliriza CAKIR

succubusboyfriend

you have permission to pick that 2 year old "abandoned" project back up. it's not mad at you for setting it aside. and maybe time and distance have helped ease or erase the things that made you put it down in the first place.

liberaljane

hjartasalt

Instead of "live laugh love" or "home is where the heart is" my (wonderful, progressive, very accepting) dad put up the racism sign in the foyer

kermitwillsellyoueggs

whats the racism sign?

hjartasalt

The racism sign, as I like to call it, is from an art piece I made halfway through my first semester of art school:

It reads "any attempted theft will be reported to the police" in the 15 most commonly spoken languages by immigrants here other than English or other western european languages (in descending order).

This sign was only half of the art piece, the other half was the most stereotypically Icelandic painting I could think of:

When the piece was shown the painting and the sign were hung on opposite sides of the room, making the sign more of an afterthought for those who don't speak any of the languages written on the sign. Standing out just enough for them to notice it and maybe wonder what it said, but ultimately not giving it a second thought for the most part.

I wanted to highlight one of the most common ways racism and xenophobia present themselves here as well as the comfort of ignorance. The sign doesn't cater to you, you ignore it it, and you don't care what it might say. You don't have to think about it because it doesn't affect you.

For those who can read the sign though, or bother to translate it, this is just yet another reminder of people's ignorance and double standards. My inspiration for this piece came from my old workplace, where they had this sign hanging on one of the doors:

The main things that stood out about this to me were that

It was the only sign on the premises written in anything other than Icelandic and/or English

All of the additional languages (Vietnamese, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian) specifically targeted minority groups that already face discrimination here

The location of the sign. We only had 1 of these, and they chose to put it up somewhere where only staff would see it rather than the customers. In fact, it was right next to the break room so you had to walk past it every time you went on break. And it was a sign reminding people not to steal. Big win for inclusivity here

People love saying that we're not racist/xenophobic here even though we very much are. The problem is just that so many people don't take the time to look when it doesn't directly affect them. I was very happy with my piece because people actually came up to me and asked what the sign said because they wanted to know, it started a conversation and made those previously unaware of this issue more aware. I wonder if these sorts of signs would be anywhere near as commonplace as they are if more people looked at them critically and asked "why is this the thing we bother translating?"

Anyway, all that aside I love my dad and I like the way this art piece turned out but also I am slightly worried about giving people the wrong idea when this is the first thing they see when they enter our home 💀

hjartasalt

Well if you want my permission to show it then you have it :))

upmala

with great regret i must inform you that there is a typo in the Latvian translation, so it actually says “any attempted theft will be reported to poland”

Reached out to a gift shop in my college town to see if they'd want to carry any of my stuff and I feel weird

#worst they can do is say no and that would already be the answer if I didn't ask #I'm trying to do this more

salbertwolf

Victor Glover (Pilot), Artemis II - April 4th 2026

gammelgaedda

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#this is beautiful

meanstepdad

btw i'm thinking about making a little zine/guide with info & advice on how to make & format zines in procreate. i already have "the stupid bitch's guide to making zines" which is more of a brief, holistic approach to coming up with ideas for zines and organizing that information into a zine (originally just made for my sister hence the rude title).

a one-page zine describing my general zine-making process. originally designed as a crash course to teach my sister how to make zines, stupi

but i would like to make a guide that addresses more of the technical aspect like setting up digital canvases, templates, formatting, and creating print vs. digital pdfs.

if you ever have any questions on how i make, format, or print anything please don't hesitate to send an ask/message!! there were so many times where i was first learning how to make zines that i wished i had concrete advice or tutorials to follow and now that i've figured out some of what i'm doing i would love to pass that knowledge along!!

regging

being a humanities major who’s friends with stem majors is so funny because you’ll ask your friends what they’re doing today and they’re like “UGH it’s so stressful i have to stabilize the reactor core for my nuclear power midterm and then i have to build the supercomputer from i have no mouth yet i must scream for my electrical engineering homework :/ what about you” and you’re like “oh well i have to read a fun little book and write an essay about gender.” and they still think you have it worse

freakinflipflop

Being a stem major who's friends with humanities majors is ALSO funny bc you ask what's goin on with them and they're like "oh yeah my day's pretty good! I only have to read 50 pages for this one class today and half a book for another one. It's much better than last week where I read three books and wrote a 10 page paper about their overlapping motifs for one class while also researching a niche period of time that our library doesn't have any resources on. How's it been for you?" and you're like "oh I have a lil packet of fun math puzzles due tomorrow." and they look at you like you're carrying the weight of the universe on your back

tesria

This is your reminder that just because something falls within the skillset you've practiced, so you can do it and you don't find it particularly hard or stressful relative to other things, it doesn't mean it isn't actually hard work you should be proud of yourself for accomplishing!