fever dreaming, barefoot, this sudden urge

My Neighbor Totoro (1988) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

Like I know it's scary when you start following an anti-imperialist and Leninist who says nice things about countries you have been indoctrinated from birth to believe are inhospitable hellscapes, I've been in your position before too, but I promise you will get over it if you just listen, investigate, and start applying critical thinking rather than shooting your mouth off and making me block you for being annoying.

Which one are you? I’m Aerial Fishing

I have never heard of Norman Rockwell. I don’t understand anything about art. But this picture shook me and caused a storm of emotions. It is called Breaking Home Ties, 1954

The boy is going to a Uni and wearing his best outfit; the Uni sticker is on his luggage, even his tie and his socks are the colours of the sticker. He is excited and impatient. The father - obviously a farmer, is sitting at the worn farm truck with a flag and a storm lamp, because their place is so small the train won’t normally stop there, so the father will need to “catch” the train and signal with the light and the flag for it to stop.

His son will never come back to the farm.  

I think I understand why this picture sold at 15,4 million dollars in 2006. 

Great paintings by Norman Rockwell of everyday Americana.

Norman Rockwell specialized in exactly this, OP. You can look at almost all of his paintings and find a story in it. Some are sweet, some are poignant, some just show family. They are all stories, and they all have story woven into every single detail.

And because it is my favorite, this is “Shiner”

Rockwell’s mentor was A.C. Leyendecker best known for his illustrations of the Arrow Collar shirt man. The model was Leyendecker’s lover. Rockwell was a pallbearer at Leyendecker’s funeral.

Rockwell’s paintings also dealt quite a bit with social issues as he got older and after the Saturday Evening Post made him remove a Black person from an image bc Black people “could only depicted in service jobs”.

As a result he left the Post & created (among other works) The Problem We All Live With and Murder in Mississippi.

OP post “Breaking Home Ties”.

Look at the dog.

Oh boy…

For those who don’t know the problem we all live with :

bare essentals

He’s a minamilist

Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992)

him

Pinterest

tea kettle... simple everyday object... shaped like other simple everyday objects.... beautiful.. poetic even... this are the little things that life's all about

Lady cardinals and Plicatura crispa (the first pic). Not too sure of the others as they were quite weathered and also out of reach above my head

if this 5000 year old tree isn’t too old to realize that its trans neither are you

Fascinating…

Jller by Benjamin Maus and Prokop Bartonicek - a kinetic artwork that sorts thousands of random river stones by age

they made an autistic robot

dragonfly blades

Hase, the 200-foot rabbit that was hand-knit in 2005 by an art group in Vienna called Gelitin.

They wanted people to climb on it and explore it; even to rest on its soft belly. They said that the rabbit was meant to look as though it dropped from the sky.

Hase was biodegradable and expected to last until 2025

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Years on the internet and somehow i still click on comments sections with the insanely optimistic idea that I'll learn something new instead of being subjected to the dumbest motherfuckers online typing like their sole purpose in life is to make me want to end mine

"Wow, what an interesting post! I want to see what sort of fascinating discourse is being generated by the idea posited by the original poster" <- Me, operating under levels of delusion yet unexplained by modern science

Judith with the Head of Holofernes (ca.1633-37, detail) Francesco Cairo