You’ll find it again, if you look hard enough

Just a 30-something Michigan guy, still figuring out that whole adulthood thing. This is pretty much just a collection of things that make me smile and the shit that keeps me sane. Things like art, astronomy, food, yarn, photography, guys and their beards, books, and too many other things to list. If it tickles my fancy it ends up here. The headline quote is from Lev Grossman's The Magicians. Some posts maybe NSFW (18+ only)... scroll at your own risk :-p hit counter

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Worcester Savers

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The happiest cat at the pumpkin patch

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good shirt from the market today

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Night Hymn

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Happy Ides of March everybody, did you know the place where we believe Caesar was stabbed is now a Cat Sanctuary

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i think ultimately you do really have to kill that part of your brain that vividly imagines how you would redo parts of your life.

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via

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An agate stone that looks like a window to the ocean.

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[ID: a photo of a chandelier with lava lamps installed in place of candles or light bulbs. End ID]

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The Stunning Astronomical Beadwork of Native Artist Margaret Nazon

Margaret Nazon has spent the past decade building intricate beadwork depictions of outer space. The colorful artworks balance representational and stylized aesthetics set on black fabric backgrounds to depict galaxies, planets, nebulae, and other astronomical phenomena.

Initially inspired by Hubble space telescope images, Nazon’s celestial renderings are part of a lifelong interest in beading. In an interview with Glenbow, the artist shared that she began beading at age 10, but found the density of traditional beadwork to be tedious.

The abstract nature of celestial images allows Nazon to be more interpretive and incorporate different materials like caribou bones and willow seeds that have location-specific or cultural significance. Nazon is Tsiigehtchic, part of the Gwich’in community in what is now the Northwest Territories of Canada. The artist explained that because she is retired, she is able to dedicate significant time to beading, and often rises at 4:30am to begin working. Nazon plans to continue experimenting, including merging her abstract beadwork with her seamstress skills to create artfully embellished apparel.

Nazon’s artwork was most recently exhibited at Glenbow in a group show, Cosmos, and A Beaded Universe at Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. You can read more about her in the Glenbow interview, and explore Nazon’s portfolio on her website.

source article: X

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In the autumn of 1883, a paper in the nation's capital reported that "an Iowa woman has spent 7 years embroidering the solar system on a quilt" — to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college. Her story.

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Her name is Ellen Harding Baker, and she taught science in rural Iowa during an era when most institutions of higher education were still closed to women (while also raising five children).

She used her Solar System quilt to illustrate her astronomy lectures. To ensure the accuracy of her embroidered depiction, Baker traveled to the Chicago Observatory to view sunspots and the Great Comet of 1882.

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Czech uranium glass perfume bottles