#topic: art

[girl-blorbo-polls]

Can your girl blorbo draw?

Yes, she’s an artist and her main medium is centred on drawing

She’s an artist, but her main medium isn’t centred on drawing

She can do it if she tries

She may doodle on occasion

She can’t even draw a stick figure

Other/nuance

Voting ended onMay 15

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[tayfabe75]

"Treat old stuff as the artist you are now, not as the artist you were then. 'Cause I wouldn't have Sex or Robbers or… if I'd have done that. I was 17 when I wrote Sex and I was 18 when I wrote Chocolate and Robbers and then I didn't make a debut album until I was 23. And 18 to 23, you're very different or you see yourself as a very different person at that time so, I'd like grown out of those songs by that point and… but there's something about them, and then my manager just like, convinced… demanded that I put them on the record."

April 13, 2019: Matty talks about his appreciation for the songs he wrote as a teenager, despite having outgrown them. (source)

[asamnetwork]

Work by Seattle artist incarcerated at Minidoka is basis of new book, exhibition

[Takuichi] Fujii and his family were swept up by Executive Order 9066, issued after the attack on Pearl Harbor, directing that all West Coast residents of Japanese descent be sent to internment camps for the duration of the war. Like other Seattleites, the Fujiis were sent first to temporary barracks at the Puyallup state fairgrounds, then a permanent camp in Minidoka, Idaho. Fujii, 50 when the war broke out, lost almost everything — his livelihood, his home, any sense of privacy, continuity or hope for a better future.

But not his art...

Taking photographs in the camps was banned, but drawing and painting were permitted. Fujii’s diary documented the stark environment, the enforced inactivity, the lack of privacy, the endurance of the extremes of cold and heat in substandard housing — at Minidoka, temperatures could range from 40 below to above 100 degrees. It chronicled the erosion of family life as the younger people — the Nisei, who were born in America — were encouraged to leave the camps, either to work or join the military. He painted the multiplying graves of residents who died there. (x)

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[sweetestpotatoes]

posting this for two reasons:

1. appreciation of the artistry on display

2. to showcase this god-awful AI text to speech voice, which is very common on XHS in place of verbal narration. i'd compare it to "the tiktok lady" on terms of how prolific it is

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