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[dduane]

[dearest-love2410-deactivated202]

I love media where the underlying message is to be kind , even if it isn’t the main plot.

I love media where the underlying message is that you are not the worst mistake you made and you are not the worst thing that happened to you

I love media where the underlying message is that people can change for the better

I love media that’s like love, actually is all around us

I love media that’s like “we can’t save anyone.” “we can always try.”

[espanolbot2]

Over on my DC blog I recently wrote about the origins of the Film Noir genre and how many of the original writers and directors were veterans of the German film industry who had been forced to flee to America following the rise of the Nazis.

How the genre's long established themes of moral ambiguity, alienation, and a distrust in authority made a lot of sense in context when you realise that the folk who pioneered German Expressionist cinema got to work in Hollywood making pulp crime films and brought both their film techniques and their understandable anger and sadness over being refugees from literal fascists in the mix.

Now while a distrust in authority has been something that has stuck with works inspired by Noir up until the present via more modern examples of neo-noir (such as Chinatown, LA Confidential, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo etc.), I think that it's notable that in the post-War years of the 1950s, just as America was becoming more conservative and authoritarian, there were folk who liked the aesthetics of Noir but didn't like the vibes.

Thus, you ended up with the radio drama and later TV show Dragnet, which modelled itself on cases by the LAPD, kept the aesthetics and vibes of Film Noir but ejected the moral ambiguity, the alienation and distrust of authority.

So while, say, Orson Welles' noir film the Touch of Evil had a depiction of a corrupt, alcoholic racist policeman as the central villain for one example, Dragnet focused on depicted its cops as unambiguously good and heroic public servants... Because it was explicitly intended to be a PR tool for American law enforcement, reacting against the negative public perception of cops at the time, and forming the basis of what would be labelled "copaganda" in modern media.

So taking the tools from a genre created in part by the victims of fascism (Italian neo-realist cinemas also played a factor, among other things) and coopting them to inform the audience that authority was awesome actually and always had your best interests in mind.

And the daft thing is that it happened AGAIN more recent with the cyberpunk genre of science fiction, which itself was created as a reaction to the Reagan and Thatcher administrations in the US and UK in the 1970s and 80s (and with some of the main examples, such as Blade Runner, themselves being influenced by Noir cinema and inheriting its themes)... only as time progressed and cyberpunk become more mainstream, it also started to become divorced from its original social and political messaging, until you land in the 2020s and have the very people the Cyberpunk was critiquing (corporate billionaires like Elon Musk) attempting to use the aesthetic for their products and Musk himself showing up to the studio where they were filming lines for the game Cyberpunk 2077 and demanding they include him as a NPC.

It's something of an irony that Michael Pondsmith, creator of the TTRPG that Cyberpunk 2077 is an adaptation of described the genre as "a warning, not an aspiration" only for the very people it was criticising to take the exact opposite message. Just as how the cops and politicians tried to take noir cinema and mold it for their own purposes, albeit with far less success.

[gardeningwithpina]

Why waste the rain?

I'm obsessed with gardening systems that utilize rainwater without the use of barrels or cisterns. My ultimate fav is using bioswales to catch and filter stormwater on the street.

Fun addition: Dams that utilize trees to catch dirt/ stop erosion, and prevent disaster that can come from broken dams.

[aleeowl]

Also:

SUSTAINABLE URBAN DRAINAGE! SUDS!

We need more of them, in the right places!

Also, using these to reduce stormwater loads in storm events, particularly in places with combined stormwater and sewage systems, could/would be helpful at reducing river discharges of raw sewage. (If climate change is factored in at system level cos more rain in less time needs to be accouted for at rhe large scale designs...)

Plus using constructed wetlands to retain these discharges and treat them before rivers too!

[tomoleary]

Georges Bess “Le Chemin de l'Homme” (2016-2017) Source

[browsethestacksofficial]

Green Lantern: Hal Jordan

Art by David Aja

[shelbyblueeyes]

[eatthekidsfirst]

I will never understand why people upload cropped, low-res, uncredited art. Here's the full piece, originally created for a collaboration with watchmaker Ulysse Nardin:

Milo Manara, 2019, Ulysse Nardin, 2, mixed technique on paper

[violaboss]

I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)

stereotypical delightful classical music:

battalia a 10 in d major (biber)

brandenburg concerto no. 5

brandenburg concerto no. 3

symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)

if you need to chill:

rondo alla turca

fur elise

anitra’s dance

in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)

if you need to sleep:

moonlight sonata

swan lake

corral nocturne

sleep (eric whitacre) (added by thelonecomposer)

if you need to wake up:

morning mood

summer (from the four seasons)

buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)

if you are feeling very proud:

pomp and circumstance

symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)

1812 overture

symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)

american (dvořák)

if you feel really excited:

hoedown (copland)

bacchanale

spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)

la gazza ladra

death and the maiden (schubert)

if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:

dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)

winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)

symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)

symphony no. 5 (beethoven)

totentanz (liszt)

quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)

young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

symphony no. 5 mvt. 4 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

marche slave (tchaikovsky) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to cry for a really long time:

fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)

adagio for strings (barber)

violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)

aase’s death

andante festivo

vocalise (rachmaninoff) (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:

an american in paris (gershwin)

if you want chills:

danse macabre

russian easter overture

egmont overture (added by shayshay526)

if you want to study:

eine kleine nachtmusik

bolero (ravel)

serenade for strings (elgar)

scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)

pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)

if you really want to dance:

capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)

blue danube

le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)

radetzky march

if you want to start bouncing in your chair:

hopak (mussorgsky)

les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)

if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:

hungarian dance no. 1

hungarian dance no. 5

if you want to hear suspense within music:

firebird

in the hall of the mountain king

ride of the valkyries

night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)

if you want a jazzy/classical feel:

rhapsody in blue

jazz suite no. 2 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:

introduction and rondo capriccioso

unfinished symphony (schubert)

symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)

canon in d (pachelbel)

if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:

st. paul’s suite

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

l’arlésienne suite

concierto de aranjuez (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:

symphony no. 40 (mozart)

cello suite no. 1 (bach)

polovtsian dances

enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)

perpetuum mobile

moto perpetuo (paganini)

pieces that just sound really cool:

scherzo tarantelle

dance of the goblins

caprice no. 24 (paganini)

new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology​)

le tombeau de couperin (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

carnival of the animals (added by shadowraven45662)

if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):

concerto for two violins (bach)

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)

violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

violin concerto in d minor (sibelius) (added by eternal-cadenza)

cello concerto in c (haydn)

piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)

and if you really just hate classical music in general:

4′33″ (cage)

a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!

also, thank you to viola-ology, iwillsavemyworld, shayshay526, eternal-cadenza, tropicalmunchakoopas, shadowraven45662, and thelonecomposer for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!

[neurodiversitysci]

I love this!

The Sean from Carnival of the Animals by Saint Saens is also great falling asleep music.

[podfixx]

The final bullet point entry made me chortle and LOL!

[dortan-lavancia]

L’heptaméron les nouvelles de la reine de Navarre  illustration, Jacques Touchet

[dirtyriver]

The Heptameron is a collection of short stories written by Marguerite de Valois, queen of Navarre (1492-1549). Ten travellers, stranded in an abbey by a flood, tell stories to pass the time. The stated goal was to get to 100 stories, but Marguerite passed away after writing 72, comprising the first seven days (hence the collection's posthumous name, hepta = seven) and part of the 8th day.

[creekfiend]

there are a NUMBER of folktale Woman-Creatures like selkies who exist to make the inherently coercive nature of heterosexual marriage explicit and to externalize male anxiety about how if your wife had actual autonomy she very well might disappear and you might never fucking hear from her again

which is a FASCINATING category of Woman-Creature imo

[creekfiend]

someone said it's also a cautionary tale about mistreating your wife and I think that's spot on especially for other related types of stories e.g. the crane wife. like I think these stories are very much Husband Anxiety Stories. the Woman-Creatures are black boxes whose interior experience it is impossible to know and who have strange and often seemingly arbitrary rules that you must follow or else they will disappear. idk. like. that's why I think that any empowering-to-women-ness qualities of these stories is incidental. I think they're externalized anxiety about coercive societal heterosexuality and the inability to truly Know one's wife in such circumstances.

[whetstonefires]

you also see a variant of this formula a lot (generally at the more literary end of the fairy tale space) where it's not a creature you capture, but a magical lady who picks you for seemingly arbitrary reasons, bettering your fortune enormously with her magic and wealth and second-hand status.

and then, for reasons usually at least slightly less arbitrary, fucks off again.

the husbandly anxiety here is more about not having access to coercion as an option.

[creekfiend]

oooo yes absolutely!

[creekfiend]

was just talking to Story about this and he told me about one folktale where a guy meets a beautiful woman at a lake and she brings a bountiful dowry of like one million fat cows and such and she is of course a fairy so she's like "my one requirement in our bargain is that if you strike me three times I will leave" and in many versions of the story the husband doesn't ""actually"" strike her -- each time it's something like, one 'strike' involves her forgetting her gloves inside and he walks out and taps her on the shoulder with her gloves, but she tells him that counts as striking her. this sort of thing. which is TRANSPARENTLY like "whoa wouldn't it be fucked up if your wife could enforce consequences for behavior she said was harmful, even if according to your cultural norms it was fine, and you didn't see it as a big deal?" like... lol. what if women could actually be the ones who decided whether or not any given action their husbands took against them was harmful? IMAGINE... PREDEY SCARY....

[grickle14]

It was true.

[natalioovski]

[classicposters]

[classicposters]

[thebristolboard]

Forgotten masterpiece: “Day & Night in Black & White” by Mike Carlin (story), Dan DeCarlo (pencils) and Terry Austin (inks), from Batman: Gotham Knights #21, published by DC Comics, November 2001. 

[amatlcomix]

Simple illustration ideas | How to draw face parts, Facial features description, Heads and faces

An illustration guide titled "Proportions of the Head" by Gayle and Jennifer. It includes diagrams demonstrating basic placements for facial

[monstermonger]

[ Part II of the postcard-sized prints! :) ]

A lil addendum to the previous post, themed upon fantasy studies I made based on Caspar David Freidrich's paintings; these are ink studies based on his sketches and watercolors. So they're a little more simple, but were cozy to do...

The original sketches he made if you're interested:

Ruins of Teplitz Castle (1828)

The Ruins of Eldena (1825)

Landscape with Bridge (1799)