Lawyer & Abolitionist Robert Morris, c.1850s-1860s (Social Law Library, Boston)
Another piece for Flora and Fauna VI, opening May 27th at Gallery Nucleus LA!
Happy Friday, everyone!
1890 Rene Lalique, Art Nouveau Enamel Horn Tiara.
Reddish brown and cream-colored enamel, horn, 18k gold (French marks), circa 1890, 6 ½ ins., signed Lalique. Christie’s
Source: mote-historie
a small handheld vacuum cleaner is a sort of creature
Being full of dust and dirt makes them sad and tired, but if you empty them into the garbage can they're happy and energetic again.
a small handheld vacuum cleaner is a sort of creature
A ribbon of eelgrass in the mouth of a manatee
PHOTOGRAPH BY JASON GULLEY
Source: National Geographic
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) — The Dove IX [oil on canvas, 1915]
Acre priory ruins, Norfolk, England.
11th c.
Original by nickpix2011 on Flickr.
Dress, 1805-10 France, Les Arts Décoratifs
everytime I think about checking if there's a season 2 trailer, I realize that my dash would be losing its mind if a trailer dropped, so I don't even bother
anonymous pennsylvania dutch fraktur drawing, 1799; watercolor and ink on laid paper.
most of the time, it is okay. most of the time im grateful for the internet and social media and cell phones and and and.
but sometimes, you see a little girl doing her makeup for twelve thousand instagram followers. she’s nine. sometimes you see a man breaking up with his girlfriend for youtube likes. sometimes you are standing in a room and are in the background of fifty snapchat stories but in nobody’s actual lives.
it’s mostly okay. but so many of us grew up in a time where they basically ignored the internet while teaching us cursive in school. digital literacy was “don’t look at wikipedia”. none of us knew what the next generation was being set up to. we taught ourselves our own rules. many of us, it didn’t come soon.
it’s mostly okay. but the other day, i asked my freshman students: if you could, would you go back in time and take the internet away from yourself in middle school? if so, when do you think is the right time to be exposed to social media?
over and over: yes. yes. yes. i’d go back and never look up those skinny tips. i’d never spend so many weekends in the dark in communities that encouraged me to self-harm. i’d never lose my brother to radicals. i’d never, i’d never, i’d never again.
it’s mostly okay. i’m posting this on social media. but sometimes, you know. i wonder what exactly we’re doing.
I feel like many young adults naysaying this don’t understand just how different their- our -Internet experience was as children from what today’s kids deal with
I wouldn’t take the Internet away from myself in middle school. because it was 2004-2008 and the sum total of my Internet usage was reading Nightmare Before Christmas fanfiction, watching Flash videos, making crappy MS Paint base edits, and looking up Mediaeval Baebes lyrics. on a desktop PC. I occasionally talked to people on forums (I had a Gaia Online account for a while), and I emailed or AIM-ed my friends, but my social media access was nil. No MySpace, no Facebook, no nothing.
to think that that’s even remotely comparable to constant, highly normalized use of multiple social media apps that are driven entirely by a desire for ad revenue, AND which live on a device you are expected to take everywhere with you…how?
#internet#social media#I didn't start using the internet regularly until my late teens and I'm glad of it#I did a lot of art and read a lot of books#I still do a lot of art but my book reading fell off a cliff in college#and for the first couple years of my using the internet I was mostly just reading sewing blogs
“Progress Shark” outside the Australian Museum, ahead of Sydney Mardi Gras/World Pride Festival 2023.
More flags should be inflatable sharks
Ok this is making me go insane because. that’s a photoshop. it absolutely is, someone’s edited a progress pride flag onto the shark.
you can see spots where the red is misaligned with the top of the body and even extends slightly beyond it. the lines of the flag don’t conform to the shape of the shark’s body at all. you can see the gills through it as if it’s at like 70% opacity.
but like. the progress pride shark is real and it looks like this:
yknow. cause it’s a flag wrapped around a model shark.
why was this edited????? it’s a real thing but for some reason someone edited a digital flag over it instead of just using a real photo of the real thing??? why????
nothing but love for cringefail grandpa
Charles Addams - For Sale: Inquire Within
Dean Gitter's Ghost Ballads album cover, c. 1953.
another underappreciated tumblr feature that you dont get on other sites is the queue. i love it when something i thought was funny six months ago and then forgot about a week later crawlts its way out of the processing vortex and i get to see it all over again.
you should queue this post it would be funny and grant me immortality
you motherfuckers put me in the processing vortex
Abadoned gorgeous Japanese love-hotel.