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Ah, interesting. Foal auctions are in full swing again and look who became the sales-topper (sold for 52k) at the Oldenburger studbook's foal auction:

That's a little Esquin White colt. I didn't particularly expect that stallion to get popular but color seems to sell well at auctions lately.

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falin

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The Touden siblings make me so emotional

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laios and his father seem to be more similar than he'd ever like to believe, and it's messing me up a bit actually....

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Hitomi Murakami

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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

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septic shock illustration in scientific american (src)

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Impossible to photograph this massive fleece without cats all over it. Look how big though !! Might be the biggest I've ever worked with.

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Wodaabe women, Chad, by Jimmy Nelson

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gonna start making snopes-style responses to urban legends about tumblr

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it's funny, I was talking to someone last night who didn't really know what an illustrator was. so when I introduced myself as one, he gave a speech that would've probably gone over well with a gallery artist, but which was precision-tailored to make any illustrator within a 50 mile radius go into eyes-glowing-red kill mode.

his speech was about how there is a difference between craft and art, and how people can practice craft (as in, skillfully execute a painting) without it having any artistic merit.

so I'm someone who gets paid to paint waffles for restaurant menus and dinosaurs for museums exhibits, and AHHHHHH! AHHHHHHH! you can't make art without it being something something you've made. does that make sense? like every illustrator I know has an individual way of approaching any given imagery that is informed by a lifetime of inspiration, and of passive intake of culture, and of the specific mistakes they make because of whatever their particular mass of grey matter deems as important thing to render or unimportant, just fuck it up.

I can make something that is informed by both a century of Canadian print-making and by my own particular neurosis, and it can also be commissioned commercial imagery that I regurgitate without care because I want to pay my mortgage. everything is art, nothing isn't art, art is something sticky and impossible to shake off of you.

anyway he got very wide-eyed and said "I'm sorry if I offended you," so today I feel a bit bad for having gotten so, uh.... excited.

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I wonder how different society would be if the abuse schools commit was officially acknowledged as abuse.

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it is my hope and dream that everyone on tumblr can go outside and visit a gay bar or go to a queer event and see that our community is very beautiful and very diverse and that half the internet discourse isn’t real

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everyday I pray Zillow makes a comment section

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warbler season! my collection with Bird Collective is up!

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The Dyke Project manifesto printed on the back of estradiol and testogel boxes