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Puppy sleeping. 1955, Japan

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hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.

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being a teenage girl between 2010 and 2015 must have been the shit. lana del rey dropped born to tie and ultraviolence. the arctic monkeys dropped am. justin bieber. one direction. u had tumblr and weheartit. u post a black and white pic of a cigarette and u get like 20k notes. pretty little liars, vampire diaries and glee were all on tv. twilight was still really popular. all around it must have been fun

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I am absolutely disgusted to learn that crown owns our castles and the profits are sent to Westminster. Wales is struggling, our economy is struggling, our people are struggling, our health services are struggling, and that money could go to the betterment of our lives - instead it goes to England.

despite the fact we maintain the castles and land, we don't own them. they are in OUR country. ownership should belong to us, the people who built them. we maintain them. we work in them. theyre ours and we should be able to use the profits generated by them to help welsh people, not allow the money be funnelled into the monarchy.

the fact the crown owns so much of wales is such an outdated and medieval concept and has no place in modern society.

petition here:

please sign. I am disgusted.

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Kim Chong-Hak (b.1937) - Plum Blossom in Night. 2004. Oil on canvas.

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Portrait of a young woman.  Hand-colored photo, about early 1900’s, Japan.  Photographer Kazumasa Ogawa

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Discomedusae - Purple-striped Jelly (chrysaora colorata) / Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) 🪼

Earlier this year, I delved into the world of cyanotype prints for the first time, and these are the fruits of my labour. I'd wanted to try out the cyanotype medium for a while, and to make some artwork inspired by the ocean. I found this to be the perfect medium for capturing the ethereal nature of jellyfish, and representing the deep blue of the ocean.

Creating cyanotypes involves working with elements of nature - the light of the sun to expose the prints, and water to wash them, which also felt appropriate here.

Both of these original prints are available for sale in my shop here! I don't usually sell originals of my work and don't currently have plans to make more of these prints, at least not for some time, so it's a rare opportunity to get something unique.

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Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

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kaga-yuzen kimono （Furisode）

Akira akaji

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Flourish in Radiance

Jie Song