THE MADE SHOP

WE MAKE SPACES, OBJECTS, FILMS, AND GRAPHIC DESIGNS This tumblr is a collection of things we've made and things we've found.

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Girl in bed, Lucian Freud

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Jana Euler

(Body (Black Void)), 2017. Oil on canvas. 82,7 × 82,7 × 1,97 in. Defares Collection. Photography by Kristien Daem.  

at dépendance, Brussels

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Voegelin’s famous command to both Christians and modern gnostics alike was, “Don’t immanentize the eschaton!” Humanity must not try to play God by forcing the end times or by seeking utopia on earth. It will only lead, he warned, as in the Tower of Babel parable in the Bible, to political disorder and senseless human suffering.

The Voegelin Enigma - The American Interest

Amen.

Balance over Conscription

Faith over Control

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2021 Linear Calendar

Limited “dumpster fire” commemorative series on sale now —  $25

The Linear Calendar is a minimal yet practical calendar design particularly suited for long range planning. Organized as a series of complete linear months, the unbroken structure is ideal for planning and seeing deadlines, travel, important events, and holidays over the year.

"Hand" drawn by a robotic pen plotter on French paper. 24" x 18" 

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MAIO

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The Circles of Control

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Metal Shop

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“By Blood.” Our new album artwork for Shovels & Rope

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The Wire. Our new music video for Shovels & Rope.

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The Made Shop Bodega Bag — $15

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Kai Brach

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The Made Shop tote, now on sale

$15

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25 Reasons to Keep on Making Stuff in Times of Crisis

In an epic GIF-laden thread on Twitter, author Chuck Wendig lays out “25 REASONS TO KEEP ON MAKING STUFF IN THIS TIME OF RAMPANT ASSHOLERY”.

1. Because you need to escape the fuckery, and what you make is a door. A book, a piece of art, even an excellent meal – it’s a doorway out. It’s the tunnel dug out behind the Rita Hayworth poster in your prison cell.

3. Because creation is #resistance. Making things is additive. And in a subtractive time such as this, you must balance the void with its opposite. That is an act of defiance. And we need more defiance.

9. Because it’s therapy. It’s therapy first for you, and if you share it, eventually for us, too.

20. Because when you make stuff, you improve yourself. And we need you in fighting shape. YOU MUST BE A WHETTED BLADE READY TO SLICE THROUGH SHENANIGANS, CHICANERY, AND GARBAGE.

24. Because art is beauty. Stories, poetry, craftwork, food, it’s all beautiful and this ugly world needs a dollop of beauty. There is beauty in both the act and the result of making stuff. So kick the shitstorm out of the sky with an aggressive rainbow counterattack.

See also Austin Kleon’s upcoming book Keep Going (and related talk) and How to Be Productive in Terrible Times.

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The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50,000 High-Res Images from Their Collection Online

The Art Institute of Chicago recently unveiled a new website design. As part of their first design upgrade in 6 years, they have placed more than 52,000 high-resolution images from their collection online, available to all comers without restriction.

Students, educators, and just regular art lovers might be interested to learn that we’ve released thousands of images in the public domain on the new website in an open-access format (52,438 to be exact, and growing regularly). Made available under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, these images can be downloaded for free on the artwork pages.

We’ve also enhanced the image viewing capabilities on object pages, which means that you can see much greater detail on objects than before. Check out the paint strokes in Van Gogh’s The Bedroom, the charcoal details on Charles White’s Harvest Talk, or the synaesthetic richness of Georgia O'Keeffe’s Blue and Green Music.

I’ve included a few notable works from their collection above: The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat (which you can zoom and pretend you’re Cameron in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), Self-Portrait by Vincent van Gogh, Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, Mao by Andy Warhol, and Two Sisters (On the Terrace) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The resolution on the images is high enough to check out the brushstrokes on the paintings. Here’s some detail on the van Gogh:

I love seeing more museums doing this.