Inferior poets are absolutely fascinating

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

[periodinteriors]

Martin Drolling (French, 1752-1817), La fille de l'artiste copiant un dessin (The Artist's Daughter copying a Drawing), oil, undated.

[standandwatchshitburn]

why so silent good messieurs

[nsfwitchy2]

I’m SEVERELY disappointed this post didn’t include the eye witness statement of the mirror crash incident in question

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

The crowd was as much a part of the show as the band. Everyone was there: North Beach beatniks and barrio zoots, the bored bikers in black leather, teenagers in the back row kissing. There were long-haired, lithe girls in belly-dance get-ups, pink-haired punks safety-pinned together, hippie suburbanites, movie stars so beautiful they left you dumbstruck, muscle gayboys with perfect mustaches, butch dykes in blue jeans, and fairies of all genders in thrift-store dresses. We rode the mirrored ball on glittering LSD and love power. Dance fused us, magical and cleansing. We were all in a swirl of color and light. It was like a rainbow.

A rainbow. That’s the moment when I knew exactly what kind of flag I would make.

-Excerpt from Gilbert Baker's memoirs.

[cruelfeast]

many things wrong with me. well at least i'm bisexual.

[limerencs]

oh to be consumed by books to the point i forget reality exists

[omgthatdress]

(Cowichan elder Dora Wilson)

Since it's definitely sweater season, I felt like doing a deep dive into a really unique and interesting bit of knitting history: the Cowichan sweater, sometimes also called the Canadian sweater.

Spinning and weaving among tribes in the Pacific Northwest is something that goes back to pre-colonial times, using wool from domestic dogs and wild mountain goats.

(photo of the now-extinct breed, the Salish Wool Dog)

The wool was then woven into stunningly warm garments and blankets, like the famous chilkat blanket.

(Chilkat Blanket, Saint Louis Art Museum)

With colonization brought the introduction of domestic sheep, which could be reliably herded and used for wool.

It's not entirely clear who introduced knitting to the Cowichan tribe, but it's clear by the early 20th century, an industry had grown up around selling hand-knit sweaters with traditional Native design motifs on them.

[garyachapple]

Valens Lake Conservation Area, Flamborough, Hamilton, Ontario #hamont #valenslake #conservationarea

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[shithowdy]

it's 1pm at the marsh! come on down, we've got

𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀𝒷𝒾𝓇𝒹𝓈!!!

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[hdslibrary]

Typography Tuesday: Passover Edition

This Haggadah is color coded to indicate the age of various parts of the text, creating a visually striking historical commentary.

Haggadah.   Polychrome historical Haggadah for Passover. [Hagadah Meʹir ʹenayim] With a commentary, interpretative translation, introd., notes, references, and bibliography, by Jacob Freedman. Illus. in color from rare medieval Haggadah mss.  Springfield, Mass., Jacob Freedman Liturgy Research Foundation, 1974.

[terulakimban]

It’s a wonderful haggadah. In addition to the color-coding, it’s beautifully formatted, and it’s full of illustrations -photographs of seder plates and of old Jewish art and manuscripts and artifacts from all over. The research is also amazingly thorough -you can see in the above where a change as simple as the addition of a definite article -one letter! -occurred in a different era. It’s also fully translated and sourced in-text, and if there’s a later addition that’s from the same era, it’s also denoted in the text. Adir Hu and Ki Lo Naeh are both presented in comparative tables of alternate versions in other Jewish languages in addition to the standard Hebrew. I’m borrowing my mom’s copy at the moment, if anyone wants pictures of anything in particular in here and can’t afford the whole book.

[garyachapple]

Crabapple 8, Arboretum, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton/Burlington, Ontario #hamont #burlingtonontario #royalbotanicalgardens #botanicalgardens #crabappleblossoms

[gravitcat]

a thing for mermay i guess

[garyachapple]

Lilac 31, Arboretum, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton/Burlington, Ontario #hamont #burlingtonontario #royalbotanicalgardens #botanicalgardens #lilac

[taibhsearachd]

Because Etsy is a cesspit of AI and dropshipped bullshit now... can you guys drop me links to stores of independent artists?

They can make clothes and accessories, they can sell prints or stickers or pins, they can make tiny figurines (I LOVE tiny figurines), they can make dice, they can make something I haven't thought of, their store can even be on Etsy itself, you JUST have to be sure they're a real person who actually makes their own art.

Artists please self-promote. Non-artists please shove any stores you like at me, brag about your artists friends, and/or reblog so the artists will see this. I want you to destroy my activity page.

[violsva]

I have met the people responsible for October Knits (trans owned!) and A Lair Artifacts and I'm sure they're human, highly recommended!

[dreamingnemleria]

[mermaidenmystic]

Sapho ~ 1889 ~ Alexandre Isailoff (French/Ukrainian painter, born 1869)