Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe creates a rainbow sculpture woven from over sixty miles of colored thread.
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unrulyhedge
Inktober Oct 5 - Chicken
norsesuggestions
norsesuggestions
Historiepodden (swedish history podcast) :
“and then the russian empress candidate for swedish king was approved, a certain King Adolf Fredrik of sweden. But, it did not quite go as the empress of Russia had thought, were she had imagned the candidate would be a vasall of hers.
Turns out, Sweden was still ruled from its parliement, wherehas getting influence over sweden in such a manner, was not possible.
Adolf Fredrik later gave us an important lesson of what happens when one eats too many semlor pastries [one dies]. So it all turnt our pretty well in the end!”
Pfffft
They are talking about sweden in the mid 18th century. Adolf Fredrik here is the father of Gustav III. and he is indeed most famous for “eating food, and doing his hobbies, leaving the parliement alone to rule sweden”.
Also, I love the concept, even if it ofcourse is a joke, but of a foreign european power trying to put on a vasall king in sweden, but ooooops, Sweden is not feudal in structure so that did not work 😂
PS. The reason the russian empress had a candidate for swedens throne at all was that sweden had gotten involved in a really stupid war with Russia, and then lost. So it was a part of peace negotiations with Russia afterwards
The other option for King at that point was the we got Denmark candidate for king, not either a thing that was seen as ideal.
Then there was much drama, involving a bunch of really angry farmers, who marched to stockholm to demand
1. Peace
2. Also Denmarks candidate should become the king
Then they as the podcast explained it “role played being medieval peasants, despite mostly consisting of the military regiment* of Dalarna. Despite this they grapped scythes and such to march towards Stockholm”
And the parliement in Stockholm was like. Ok, but if you want peace with Russia we gotta sign this agreement of letting Russia pick the candidate.
Dalarna farmers were like
“grrrrrferr”
“ok…. BUT we are just mad about how society it run in general, honestly! I am mad!!”
*very angry Dalarna farmers, be angry Dalarna farmers*
Then a violent fight broke out between the Dalarna farmers and the sent out by the parliament military forces at a stockholm square. It was all very. Much drama, much angry farmers, much 18th century sweden sheningans.
*it was so in 18th century sweden, that the farmer class (bondeståndet) served as the majority of the soldiers in the army. So this why these Dalarna farmers can at the same time be: soldiers from Dalarnas swedish army regiment AND Dalarna farmers
procedural-generation
The Infinite Artwork Simulator is a tongue-in-cheek artwork description generator. It currently pulls data from Schor’s titular essay, Andrea Liu’s “Top Ten Words I Am Sick of Seeing on Artists Statements,” and descriptions of artwork and artists from the 2017 Whitney Biennial. More text sources will be added in the future.
Need an artists statement for your ProcJam project? Why not try this one that was sent to me! Well, really it’s an article by Monica Uszerowicz about Isabel Kim’s Infinite Artwork Simulator, which in turn is a response to Mira Schor.
The Infinite Artwork Simulator is a good example of generation as critique, as well as a pretty legit part of the larger art work conversations about how art is presented.
ladyyatexel
love-lays-bleeding
Such a cute comic! <3
I like the implication that the Chinese have mastered every human language and are only confounded by the speech of the undead.
The company I work for uses a slightly obscure program called GhostScript to produce certain reports, so now I’m picturing it as the Chinese saying ‘I’m sorry, I don’t speak weird old computer program.”
ladyyatexel
hungryklaxon
I just realised that our parents LITERALLY NEVER showed the slightest bit of interest in any of our hobbies or interests except when we picked up their hobbies or it was for school. Everything else was always, automatically annoying, bothersome and a waste of time and silly.
10 years later we still feel convinced that what we like will only ever be annoying and bothersome to others.
What’s fucked me up is that I’ve only recently realized that I actually isolate myself by hiding my hobbies and interests from pretty much everyone I know in real life in order to avoid potential ridicule.
Like, oh shit, that pattern of behavior…where I only share my interests with folks online…that comes right from feeling like there was no one else I could share my interests with back when I was a teenager.
Reading this helped me realize that I did the same thing for the longest time. Tbh I still do it. I’m still afraid to talk too much about the stuff I’m interested in to people that I love and trust. This is one of the hallmarks of childhood emotional neglect that can impact your relationships for decades if you’re unaware of this behavior and where it comes from.
It’s good for threads like these to exist so that it can assure other people with similar family household atmospheres that this is not normal. That they’re allowed to feel hurt over their harmless hobbies being harshly invalidated.
A reminder to open up
I have a couple stories about this. For reference, my favorite hobbies are geology(minerology and gemology specifically), jewelry making, and chainmail making.
I went into a geology store with my family and walked around, showing them random rocks and telling them what they were and some random facts. Eventually the woman behind the counter came up to me and she tells me I know a lot about rocks and gems and asks where I learned all of it. I completely froze up and I couldn’t answer at first. I’ve never had anyone ask that and it was awkward and embarrassing to have someone actually interested in my hobby. But eventually I tell her I’m entirely self taught and learned from books. She told me it was impressive. The professional geologist running the store told me it was impressive. I have to keep reminding myself that because my interests get put down all the time and I get told to “find a real hobby”.
More recently, I went to a renaissance fair in my area. I met a man and his apprentice who make chainmail. While I was browsing he started talking to me and I told him I awkwardly tell him I make small chainmail stuff but have only worked with smaller gauge. When I said I wanted to work with bigger gauge wire, he came around the counter and showed me his tools and how to make a chainmail ball and even told me the best way to find cheap wire. I also met many people who made wire jewelry and they were impressed with the crown I made from wire. I still feel bad for talking to them about my hobbies! I still feel like I wasted their time and annoyed them with how much I talked about it!
It’s not normal. My partner had something similar happen to them too. I only recently found out they like blacksmithing and built themself a makeshift smithing pit in their backyard. They seemed really awkward when we met the blacksmiths at the renaissance fair, but they were paying close attention to me asking questions about the tools for my brother. After I mentioned I would like to try it too, they started telling me about what they used to make the pit in their backyard. You shouldn’t be afraid to share your hobbies or interests.
ladyyatexel
propheticfire
Everything movies taught me about archery is wrong. This is a complete mind-blower. 8D
If you are even remotely interested in archery or medieval combat, check this out, it’s just great!
OMFG EVERYONE PLEASE DROP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH IT RIGHT NOW O_O
HOLY HELL
Not only is this fascinating, there are a lot of images from art history here. It just goes to show that what you can learn from the past isn’t limited to facts you can know, but things you can do.
My favorite part?
He learned this doing research for LARPs (Live Action Role Playing):
Lars Andersen originally started using bow and arrow to fight in pretend battles during Larps (live action role play) events, where he played a soldier in a medieval-inspired army. While Larps can be about anything – the Danish/Polish Harry Potter inspired larp College of Wizardry (cowlarp.com) recently got world-wide media attention and there wasn’t a rubber sword in sight there – many Larps take place in fantasy worlds inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. And it was at one of these Larps, that Lars started to learn to shoot fast while moving.
In 2012, Lars Andersen released his video, “Reinventing the fastest forgotten archery”, where he showed how he had learned to shoot from old archery manuscripts. Using these old, forgotten techniques, Lars demonstrated how he was now the fastest archer on the planet, and after its release, the video got 3 million hits on YouTube in two days.
Since the 2012 video was released, Lars has studied and practiced, and he is now able to fire three arrows in 0.6 seconds – a truly stunning feat making him much faster than the legendary fictional archer Legolas (played by Orlando Bloom in the Lord of the Rings movies).
The time benchmark he was trying to achieve, according to the video, was the expectation of the speed at which “Saracen” archers were expected to shoot. In fact, most of the source material as far as I can see isn’t European.
A lot of the techniques described are also used in Mongolian Archery, which requires being able to shoot from horseback, and is traditionally practiced by men and women. You can see a video here.
Holy shit I want that in my book but who wouldn’t call it unrealistic???
ARCHERY!!!!
https://youtu.be/BEG-ly9tQGk?t=180
Debunks Monks’ Ensnare Missiles and the whole disadvantage on ranged attacks within five feet of enemies.
Remind me to rework my Sharpshooter archetype with these things in mind.
ladyyatexel
optimysticals
*So Done* Earrings
Don’t let the news get you down. Let these earrings, inspired by French revolution era earrings, galvanize you for another day and another fight, all while making it clear where you stand.
These are also pretty great for Halloween.
Each pair is individually made with a LAZOR in Walnut plywood, with surgical steel earwires, dark red Swarovski crystal drops, and our always fine attention to detail.
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