The Troubled Tree

A collection of things I like

[huariqueje]

Inner Flame - Rani Garner

American , b. 1964 -

Oil on linen , 48 x 30 in.

[thecollectibles]

Art by Svitlana Snezhkova

[thecollectibles]

Street sketches by liquidcoco李奎德

[archxangels]

vintage stamps

[thecollectibles]

Art by Alfred Fernandes

[thecollectibles]

Art by Mikko Tyllinen

[urgetocreate]

Ralph Goings (American, b,1928), Flowered Table Top, 1978, Watercolor and graphite on paper

[anatominique]

jenny holzer truisms that i don't see on here much

[exeggcute]

one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

[exeggcute]

can you imagine.

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: excerpt from an article reading: One of my favorite stories, which should drive anyone who has every played in a band crazy-- there’s this bassoon player who has sat next to the same clarinet player since 1988. She’s convinced he plays half a note4 flat on every note he’s every played. He denies this. /]

[cleverlittlefox]

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[huariqueje]

Jan's Beach Ball - Patricia Chidlaw , 2022.

American , b. 1951 -

Oil on canvas , 36 x 27 in.

[huariqueje]

Winter sunrise    - Paul Evans

British , b. 1954 -

Silk sceen print on paper , 43 × 43 cm. Ed. 45.

[libraford]

Parks patron: hey what are you gonna do about that graffiti?

Me: it's on the side of a business building, so the business owner has to take initiative

Patron: but it's visible from the trails!

Me: it is not on our property, so it falls on the owner of the business.

Patron: don't you have a graffiti task force?

Me: no, sir.

Patron: when I lived in Georgia we had a graffiti task force that would take care of that.

Me: we do not have that here.

Patron: you'd think the parks and rec people would take care of graffiti in their parks.

Me: we do. This is not on a park. It is on a business.

[libraford]

Patron: you see, there is also a sticker.

...

I'm sorry, is the sticker menacing you somehow? Is it scary? Are you being threatened by the vinyl?

[libraford]

Like I'm not saying it's great art

It's fucking ugly.

But also what you want me to do about it? Spend a day scraping it off the side a building whose owner is famously difficult to get ahold of?

[libraford]

Truthfully, the skateboarders that made it have been adding to it every few months and I kind of want to see where they go with it.

[unreconstructedfangirl]

I got a two beautiful new mugs from the thrift store down the street. Sometimes it's the little things 🤌🏻.

[huariqueje]

The Kolkje with Snow - Frans Koopelaar , 2024.

Dutch , b. 1943 -

Oil on linen , 30 x 24 cm.

[huariqueje]

Beauty Sleep - Rachel Parker

American , b. ?

Watercolour on paper , 10 x 12 in.

[mercurytongue]

my parasocial relationship is better and more ethical and less gauche and passé than yours

[gofuckyourselfwithyouratombomb]

God help me I'm thinking of going into academia again