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29.03.2023 ☀️ today's anthy!
i wanted to draw ... old woman yuris ....... but i forgot i dont know how to draw different ages ... aaaaaa 😭😭😭 !!!
SOMEDAY IS TODAY !!!!!! THEY ARE TOGETHER AT THIS VERY MOMENT I SAW THEM WITH MY OWN TWO EYES AND THEY WERE SHINING SO BRIGHTLY WITH THEIR AGE OLD LOVE THAT THEY TEMPORARILY BLINDED ME WITH THEIR BRILLIANCE
It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.
He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.
Like, look at this stuff????
It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!
Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.
And then there's this one:
The Fantasy
For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.
The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.
But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.
Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.
This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.
"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.
"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.
"We often fantasized about Dick's joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles." - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.
There’s also Alexei Leonov, writer and artist and first person to conduct a spacewalk!
You can't forget this, the first art made in space.
March 1965, Alexei Leonov made this drawing only moments after narrowly surviving the very first space walk.
There was an effort to create decentralised backups of the internet archive a few years ago, but for various reasons the project fell apart. If you're interested in helping to preserve partial data, there is some good info here about the practicalities:
(tl;dr: you're probably better off identifying specific at-risk collections and curating those than trying to figure out a backup solution for the entire archive)
well anyway. the copyright system exists to commodify art and expression and process it into more money for larger companies, and it is actively detrimental to efforts for preservation, open education, and creation. everyone reading this is morally obligated to hoard and share data because we live in a world that is hostile to the idea that books or music or movies or scholarship have inherent value independent of a DRM stamp and ticket price. btw fuck hachette, harpercollins, wiley and penguin random house.
Get yourself an external hard drive or two and just start saving. The internet is not forever. Things are going to disappear, or (more likely) become harder and harder to search for, and more and more costly to access.
When did you last go looking for an older movie, only to realise it was unavailable on any streaming service and unavailable to buy? Restricted access and false scarcity are the only ways corporations can inflate and justify prices for digital content. In an era when we can carry entire libraries around on a phone, there is no reason to let these for-profit organisations control access to the wealth of human culture.
1TB of storage costs about $30-50 depending on the drive. Let's say an average high quality movie rip is 1.5GB. That's space for nearly 700 movies. The average ebook is around 2MB. That's space for 500,000 books. The Library of Alexandria was generously estimated to house 400,000 manuscripts. You can beat the Library of Alexandria, in your apartment, for $30-50. Start right now.
if this isn't enough to convince you, consider the satisfaction you will get from being the fucking chad in your group chat who's like "yeah I can get you that" any time anyone is looking for anything. it's real and it gets you maidens, take it from me.
「Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm *in* it.」
You’re all gonna love this one
This f***er just out there quilting chocolate
you know what, i am right and im tired of pretending i am not
pls if you have a TikTok you have to follow this account
Do you ever yearn?
Fangamer is releasing a book, “Legends of Localization: Undertale” about the process of translating Undertale to Japanese.
Looks like it’ll release late January, but it’s available for preorder now.
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This is the most German comic I have ever seen. And it’s not even about Germans.
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Ok I just now noticed the birds. I thought this was just a comic about bread and respectful distance. I stand with my point though.
