Drawing Awake

French, artist, teacher; way too old but better late than never

[carlav-blogs]

David Tennant - 14

[death-to-usa]

there IS actually a reason why seconds and minutes (and degrees for geometry) are in base 60 instead of base 10, and if you want to blame someone for that, blame the very specific way Babylonians counted with their fingers.

[death-to-usa]

The way Babylonians finger-counted was by using their thumb to tap each phalange of the fingers in the same hand the thumb was in, in the order of proximal to distal phalanges and index finger to pinky finger (for a total of 12 taps), and lifting a finger on the other hand every time they counted up to 12, resulting in each finger in the second hand representing 12 taps, with 5 fingers representing... 60 taps.

[death-to-usa]

thats actually spot on.

[death-to-usa]

yes. a gross is defined as 12 dozens.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I might start counting on my fingers like this now

[bloodbonestelephones]

Death

The Nine of Cups

Justice

The Nine of Swords

The King of Swords

The Hanged Man

The Hermit

The Six of Swords

The Eight of Cups

The Five of Cups

The Sun

The Three of Swords

‘The Ghetto Tarot’: Haitian artists transform classic tarot deck into stunning real life scenes:

Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.

As Smeets says, “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word ‘Ghetto,’ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”

[sanctuarytrin]

When you read a fic for smut and it turns out to be well written with a good plot. 

[sisyphusshrugged]

Dan Hays Colorado Snow Effect 4 (with detail) 2007, oil on canvas

[roundtop]

if you are a fan of the poem "what resembles the grave but isn't," you might be interested to know that the poet, anne boyer, resigned her position at the new york times magazine today, and her letter is worth reading in its entirety.

[sashayed]

"If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present. "

[justalittlesolarpunk]

It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.

It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.

It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.

It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.

It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.

It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.

It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.

It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.

It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.

It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.

It’s labour rights and less work.

It’s science and arts.

It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.

It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.

It’s sailboats and zeppelins.

It’s the speculative and the possible.

It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.

It’s global and local.

It’s me and you.

Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.

[tremendouspolicestrawberry]

Ooooh Solarpunk that’ s a nice term

[rapha-reads]

Bonjour le French Side of Tumblr, quelqu'un aurait-il un abonnement Mediapart et pourrait faire tourner la chronique de Mona Chollet ? J'ai très envie de le lire, et je pense que ça pourrait intéresser pas mal de gens aussi.

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

I know SEVERAL afab nonbinary people who, as soon as they came out as nonbinary - immediately began dressing in ridiculous hyper-femme outfits they never would have worn before.  A lot of people see this and say shit like “Theyfab” or say they are only nonbinary for attention.  After all, look how femme they are.

But to me, this makes perfect sense.  When you are forced into the category of “woman” against your will, femininity is a chore.  It’s a job that you have.  As soon as you say no, I’m not a woman, suddenly femininity isn’t your job anymore.  It’s not a requirement.  It’s just a fun hobby you can get into.  Or a little treat sometimes.

[tremendouspolicestrawberry]

this just…. This 🌸🔥💖

[my-russia]

The Morozovs estate in Moscow Ph: marusia.savina

[sparklemaia]

[havingapoemwithyou]

september garden party by Jane Kenyon

[sissa-arrows]

Sooooo now if you’re North African or Black you cannot wear a long dress at school anymore which extend to public servants jobs.

France really said “Wait we need to remind everyone of our Islamophobia”.

Basically the Abaya has been declared to be a religious garnement and as such it is now not allowed to wear it in schools. Given that they cannot differentiate a abaya from a long dress (because there’s no fucking difference) they will have to pick when it’s a abaya and when it’s just a long dress… and as everyone can already see it they will pick by deciding that Arab, Amazigh, North African and Black girls are automatically wearing a abaya.

[the-bibrarian]

A source, for anyone wondering:

French ban of abaya robes in schools draws applause, criticism

The decision on the robes, worn by some Muslim women, is part of a ban on religious symbols in state schools to uphold France's strict brand

A new low from our “centrist” government.

[tremendouspolicestrawberry]

non binary Pokémon

So I did this sketch à few days ago to play with the 2 colors of the genders that confuse me constantly, between what I sense inside and what I show/see outside. And my very Pokémon oriented gremlin asked me if my character was « dynamaxing » and went on to explain to me how certain pokemon evolve… and I wish that everybody could understand that, when I try more and more to express and explore and reclaim some aspects of both genders, I’m just dynamaxing my gender.

[herssian]

highly recommend when you draw to try and draw. helps with the drawing, especially when it comes to the drawing part

[boyhood]

An important part of making art is just not doing anything. Just letting weird stuff percolate. Absorbing more or less useless information and then pinning it onto a cork board like a terrible alcoholic detective but with no thread, just things pinned to other things and most of the things are just two word phrases like ANCIENT CRAB and DIRT LABYRINTH and MEAT CASTLE that don’t mean anything. Just moving through the world, making nothing, eating bread, having prophetic dreams and letting insane thoughts build up and up and up until they can finally crystallize into something that exists outside of your body and you can enter a blissfully thought free phase of your life where you just get to glue small objects to other small objects for 18 hours straight 

Unfortunately the other part of making art is actually making it

[tremendouspolicestrawberry]

I feel attacked 🤣

[henriquelage]

[altcomics]

Federico Fellini