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Beautiful Illustrations of Marija Tiurina

Marija Tiurina is a London, UK based illustrator and games artist. Follow her on Facebook.

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posted by Margaret

vanity-fairer

So extremely stunning

qxavier

Endless Possibilities of Artistic Engagement

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There are times when you must dispense with the pleasantries, show your credentials, and let your self-built pedigree speak. Chief Don’t Run!

There was a time. Then, there is this time.... We get the opportunity to do better. In a lot of instances, this better is not recognized by those holding on to the past. In a lot of instances, this better is not recognized by those trying to reconcile morality in the zeitgeist. Yet, here we are. We scour, salvage, and search for meaning in the mundane. Yet, there are moments when we miss the message in the spectacle. While cynicism, maligned skepticism, hold more allure we miss the optimism which builds a vision. We miss the view from the precipice of possibility which depends on the acknowledgment of the problem, but is not dependent on building your foundation in it. I am optimistic in my skepticism. I was not born this way, not that I know of... However, I have learned (or re-learned), trained (or re-trained), myself to respond in ways which take on a view from possibility of a future that is not present. I do not always hit this mark on the head, and yet I am optimistic that one day this will be a reflex like blinking my eyes in the wind, shivering in the cold, or hugging my friend while they mourn. There is more in the mundane and there is simplicity in the spectacle. Do amazing things.

#mad max #optimism #possibility #pma #thinkmovegrow

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Addendum:

From the desk of J. Stanton: 1. I am fortunate enough to count Rob Fusco as a friend, and I guarantee that no one but Rob Fusco can make Rob Fusco do anything. 2. Slippery slope arguments don’t work on those who don’t share your moral compass. For instance, if someone doesn’t believe it’s blasphemous to shave, they won’t be convinced that not shaving inevitably leads to a life of crime. 3. Industrial agriculture is an environmental, economic, and social disaster whether the resulting soybeans are fed to cattle or to people.

qxavier

It is a good thing when people speak of you, and your kin, in tomes of respect, gratitude and humility.

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...everything.

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Previously, I’d only seen the first two panels and assumed it was the complete comic.

This version is much better.

chokkilissa-nahollos

omg it’s so much better with the conclusion

qxavier

It's like that.

best-of-memes

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This is Tumblr in a nut shell

qxavier

The more you know... 😂💯

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qxavier

Simple | Dope

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Fuck Yeah Imperialism

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this is incredible

riseofthecommonwoodpile-deactiv

the phrase “quit while you’re ahead” has rarely seemed more apt than when describing Neil deGrasse Tyson’s career evolution from fun science man to insufferable science dick

stubblesmacbeth

Naw see this is from 2010. He’s ALWAYS been like this.

brehaaorgana

taking it a level further: not only is it annoying, but it’s multiple levels of wrong.

Cathedrals continued to exist and be built because the Catholic church continued to dominate Europe (???) and because a Cathedral is a seat of Administrative power, not a building category. Because Cathedral literally means seat.

(French: cathédrale from Latin: cathedra, “seat” from the Greek kathedra (καθέδρα), seat, bench, from kata“down” + hedra seat, base, chair)

Spain’s imperialist expansion actually increased the number of Cathedrals which were “Spanish.”

So this tweet is wrong for various reasons:

Correlation doesn’t equal causation(!)

He demonstrates a common misunderstanding of what a Cathedral is, making his statement incorrect on principle

If we try to take a stab at what he thinks Cathedrals are, his commentary is still wrong: Either he means Cathedral as a type of particular looking building (in which case he probably means “Gothic” or at best, St. Peter’s Basilica, the former style happening before the age of exploration) or he means Cathedral as a Church and forgets 1.) that the Vatican is in Italy…..so of course they have Roman Catholic Churches and 2.) that Spain still had churches.

He places a value over “perceived science” over “perceived art” which doesn’t account for the ramifications of either practice and mistakenly assumes “art” involves no “science” whatsoever, but like, try telling that to civil engineers or architects. I’ll wait.

It completely and totally glosses over the whole reason for Spain (and the rest of Europe)’s continued aggressive imperialist aims – which can be greatly simplified as “Gold, God, and Glory.” The drive to en masse convert people to Christianity is inextricably related to the other two motivating factors and to why Spain cared about expansionism in the first place. It is completely silly to try to discuss say, the Spanish-backed sail of Christopher Columbus without also discussing the Reconquista, and the expulsion of Spanish Jews, the Inquisition, the removal and persecution of Spanish-Muslims, because all of these issues are happening as a result of a coalesced Spanish Empire – the Spanish-Habsburgs. (I specify because whooo boy were all the European Royals wildly inbred).

SO ULTIMATELY: the lesson is that NdGT is a sometimes cool science guy and sometimes just wildly wrong science guy but shouldn’t really be your only source of educational information, and also science without the humanities (particularly history) is usually a disaster.

(Side: the coolest lecture I’ve heard on Gothic cathedrals was by an ABD physicist who switched to studying Gothic-style Cathedrals and became a PhD in art history, and used science - particularly physics - to advance the field).

qxavier

It is not about NDgT being a dick. It is about NDgT being human.

He is merely incorrect. We are allowed to be incorrect.

It is best when people we respect and look towards for information, inspiration and insight are wrong in public spaces.

This statement allowed me to look deeper into Italian and Spanish history. This statement, however erroneous, allowed me to gain my own information, inspiration and insight on history of these cultures, conquests and cathedrals.

While he is incorrect, it is our duty as humans not to follow witty-rhetoric blindly. Instead allow statements made by public figures to drive further investigation for accurate affirming, or respectful rebuttal.

Maybe this is the halfway point between knowledge and wisdom.

Then again, I am a human and will be completely wrong very soon.

hallease

This was essentially my life from K - 12

qxavier

This was life then. This is life now.

We call it, progress.

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Little girl throws a tantrum in front of a Rembrandt…I value her stance against what is deemed as “civilized” in today’s society. She’s the true artist.

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After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705, Irish woman Margorie McCall was hastily buried to prevent the spread of whatever had done her in. Margorie was buried with a valuable ring, which her husband had been unable to remove due to swelling. This made her an even better target for body snatchers, who could cash in on both the corpse and the ring.

The evening after Margorie was buried, before the soil had even settled, the grave-robbers showed up and started digging. Unable to pry the ring off the finger, they decided to cut the finger off. As soon as blood was drawn, Margorie awoke from her coma, sat straight up and screamed.

The fate of the grave-robbers remains unknown. One story says the men dropped dead on the spot, while another claims they fled and never returned to their chosen profession.

Margorie climbed out of the hole and made her way back to her home.

Her husband John, a doctor, was at home with the children when he heard a knock at the door. He told the children, “If your mother were still alive, I’d swear that was her knock.”

When he opened the door to find his wife standing there, dressed in her burial clothes, blood dripping from her finger but very much alive, he dropped dead to the floor. He was buried in the plot Margorie had vacated.

Margorie went on to re-marry and have several children. When she did finally die, she was returned to Shankill Cemetery in Lurgan, Ireland, where her gravestone still stands. It bears the inscription “Lived Once, Buried Twice.”