a correspondance book of visual delights

visual inspiration and art. lots of queer culture and art.

[vee-correspondance-book]

inactive blog alert!

I'm slowly putting all the posts on this blog on @verityontheothersites! it's probably going to have a new url etc when I decide what to use it for.

[speciesbarocus]

Restorers from the Royal Institute of Art Heritage (KIK), Belgium.

[gaia-health-blog]

ESPN 2016 “Body” Issue: Behind the scenes with fencer Nzingha Prescod

“Yes, there are Black fencers” - Nzingha Prescod

click here to go to article

[things-with-teeth]

Reblogging with a link to the actual article since the link above leads to some random health blog.

[fat-models]

/sharrellduh

[fugitiverabbit]

Thanks to some incredible supporters I was able to purchase new lighting for fatphotoref!

That means that there are new photos going up on the site every Monday from now through September. If you don’t want to wait that long to see them all, I’ve added an option to buy the full set from my last shoot on my ko-fi page.

Here’s a direct link to purchase the mega-pack, but no pressure whatsoever. https://ko-fi.com/s/7d8ba786c4

[distantvoices]

Mariacarla Boscono by Jordan Hemingway for Dilara Findikoglu FW23 Campaign

Styled by Ally McRae. Hair by Louis Souvestre. Makeup by Daniel Sallstrom.

[goldduststevie]

Anon request: Stevie with her rings in the 1970's (I plan on doing a different set for the 1980's, and 1990's maybe).

[plastiqueflower]

Devonté Hynes for Niki Pauls

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[cintipede]

URSULA MOREUX (DR. SCIENCE LADY) — In front of you sits a lanky, spectacled woman in a lab coat with harrowing dark circles under her eyes. She is too immersed in her work to notice your presence.

[dsudis]

So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

[relevant-catnik]

Hmm.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

[ruusverd]

Actual answer: the sheep know the dogs are not sheep, and they also know the dog is protecting them and take their cues from the dog about whether they need to run for the barn or can just ignore anything scary that approaches.

However, a friend once had an extremely premature orphan lamb born in December who had to live in the house for a couple of months with leg braces and all that, who due to spending her lambhood with dogs instead of sheep came out of the whole experience convinced she was a livestock guardian dog! She would patrol the perimeter of the fields every evening with the actual dog, stand watch in the barn door at night like the dog, and was more than willing to throw down if she saw something scary coming towards the flock the way the guard dog did. Tragically orphaned lamb did a convincing job at being a guard dog without actually having any of the biological advantages a dog has over a sheep.

Which I suppose made her Sheep Batman.

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[vee-correspondance-book]

Source: Fransdita Muafidin

[elixir]

Installation art piece titled ADHD

[throathole]

What if you were watching porn that seemed totally normal and then at the end it hit you with this

[artwheat]

this animal

[middlering]

My favorite genre of self-portrait is cartoonists being bothered by their characters while trying to draw

Bill Watterson – Calvin and Hobbes (1986)

Hergé – Tintin (1947, Tintin Magazine)

Jeff Smith – Bone (1993, Bone Holiday Special)

Walt Kelly – Pogo (1950, Maclean's Magazine)

And a bonus:

Berkeley Breathed – Bloom County

[ouroborosorder]

this is such a profoundly stupid thing to be mad about but. i periodically think about how banksy made one of my single favorite pieces of art of all time, and everything else he's ever done has sucked. man, how did you nail it once

[ouroborosorder]

It's this piece, titled The Banality of the Banality of Evil. Because on first glance, you're like. Yeah, okay, it's obvious what it's saying. Even nazis, even evil people can appreciate beauty, too. But then you learn its name, and suddenly the interpretation shifts a bit. The idea that evil is banal has in itself become banal. my first response to seeing a nazi on a bench is "oh it's about the banality of evil" and not "jesus christ there's a nazi on the bench."

and like. i dunno i think that's a really interesting way for a title to recontextualize a piece. it's finding nuance by tearing out the nuance you want to project onto it. it's not the greatest piece of art ever made, but i'd be lying if i said i didn't have a huge soft spot for it

[manwhorewednesdays]

Okay but I have to add to this

what I find really interesting is how the way this is drawn (especially considering who drew it) the art style seems extremely deliberate. This type of nostalgic landscape painting is very reminiscent of nazi art and specifically, Hitler's art.

Nazis were extremely judgmental of "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art). Bansky's usual work very well fall into this category! So for him to go for this style of painting in particular is another choice I find very interesting, because I can see some people react to this painting with some variation of "oh, I didn't know he could actually draw! I thought he is a hack but he is a real artist!" - and that is where they would agree with the Nazis.

I dunno I just find this piece very compelling

[ouroborosorder]

oh that is actually fascinating. in fact, to add on- a detail I omitted because I just kinda forgot to mention it. The reason there’s two signatures in the corner is because it was a painting in a thrift shop, Banksy adding the Nazi, and then returning it to the shop.

I think there’s something interesting about recognizing the lineage of this type of art and wanting to mess with it, subvert the intent, and explore the topic and legacy. It’s potent. I really like this piece