#Japanese perspective

[fashionbooksmilano]

Punk Ikebana

Reimagining the Art of Floral Design

Louesa Roebuck

Foreword by Obi Kaufmann  Photographs by Ian Hughes

Harry N. Abrams, New York 2022, 256 pages, 24.38 x  32.26 cm, Hardcover,  ISBN  9781951836641

euro 56,00

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Floral designer Louesa Roebuck shows you how to make transcendent eco-luxe compositions with seasonal flora foraged from the West Coast

"The way of the flowers” has been studied for centuries, but as acclaimed author, artist, and floral designer Louesa Roebuck demonstrates, one needs to understand the rules in order to bend them. In Punk Ikebana, Louesa composes stunning arrangements and installations that unite the cultural traditions and elegance of Japanese perspective with exhilarating freedom from convention. Working with seasonally foraged, gleaned, and sourced flora from various regions of California, Louesa reveals how cinematic floral sculptures can be created by embracing the abundance right outside your door. Inviting nature’s often-overlooked treasures into your space means improvising in a moment of time, in a particular place. Exuberant compositions are created with what is on hand, establishing a harmonious dialogue with the flora, space, color, vessels, and textiles readily available. Aligning her deep commitment to the environment with her love of foraging, gleaning, and sourcing regionally, Louesa inspires you to cultivate your own vision and invite the wonders of the natural world into your home.

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04/02/22

[heartorbit]

searching for a star that's still unknown to anyone!

[phattravellers]

The Truth

[leisi-lilacdreams]

posting this while i'm in the mood to share

maybe i'll get it done before the actual new years OTL

i want to a series of 12!boys in more japanese settings and i have some ideas

[ketchupkio]

Angy oniiii

Wanted to do something like the official MM art for him, and it ended up being another perspective drawing lol. His design is so complicated but I love it so much (and also the curiass is easier to draw hfgdhdjd)

Arysios, the Fierce Deity, is from @ageless-soul-au! Please don't tag any other AUs!

⚔️ kofi ⚔️

[chittychittyyangyang]

Blake is clearly Japanese, and Yang is clearly chinese, so isn't giving them darker skin tones racist?

I'm going to answer this is good faith, and I will accept no follow up.

Blake being "clearly" Japanese, just no. Belladonna is Italian believe, and Kuo Kuana seems to have a lot more influence from the Pacific Islands. Even if she was Japanese, there are darker skinned Japanese people.

Yang isn't just Chinese. Even so, Chinese people can be darker skinned. I also find this ask suspect because a lot of people in the fandom make Blake darker skin (and people have been shitty about it since V1) . I've reblogged a lot of it. I've NEVER gotten anything like this in my inbox in my years running this blog until it's Yang too. Weird.

I have met with many fans of the show over the years, and it seems like many POC can see themselves as the characters and want that reflected in their skin too. It made a lot of sense to me that someone with textured hair could see Yang's protectiveness of hers as similar to their own experiences. RW/BY sure lacks protagonists with darker skin, and it's not racist to make fan art of them darker (what is this take from anyway, 2003???)

I believe it was Miles who responded to some harressment a black Blake cosplayer got years ago that Blake is Blake no matter the skin tone.

At the end of the day though, I am so very White and not the arbiter on what is or isn't racist. However, I'll always question the motives of anyone that raises a fuss over someone making cute art of characters with darker skin tones, more so in a show that lacks skin diversity.

[alithographica]

HELLO???? [x]

[daily-teki]

Day 116: New Year’s thing for @frenchgremlim1808 ‘s little thing!

[allisonperryart]

#ThrowbackThursday to a pastel sunset - catch the process video here: https://youtu.be/k6lvbqd0-L4

[taralen]

"Spamton...? Were you like this when you were the same as me? You are so handsome. I love you..."

A naive White Addison woman shares a dream with a former White Addison man, his hand hovering over her slender neck.

I will not lie: I wrote this in Japanese because the vertical text looks better than the horizontal English text. It should be read right-to-left. I rewrote the second sentence many times, and I hope it's OKAY!

My White Addison OC, Theta, sharing a dream with Spamton, but from her POV. During this dream, he is already BIG SHOT. They never meet while he is still an Addison. His SOUL projection still resembles his Addison self since he sees himself in her but negatively.

Spamton's version of the dream is wildly different. Distorted and darker, he lowers his left hand to strangle her neck but cannot bring himself to do it. He does not see her as a figure of comfort and beauty as she does for him but as an unsettling anomaly who fills him with disgust. However, she surprises him by feeling his face, blissfully unaware of his dark intentions.

For my psychological horror AU, LoveLetter.

[faaun]

i should have never dated an iranian person like i told myself i would never do it bc it would be too much intensity all in one place and i was RIGHT now that i've experienced it (smn who can engage in poetry in a similar way, talk in the same language, making all the cultural stuff gay and hot, etc) i feel like without those aspects things will just be missing Something like from now on . idk . let's drink black tea w saffron and then make out . i've never celebrated the solar new year or leapt over a fire the wednesday before or read romantic hafez poetry w someone who loves me romantically and now i crave it . so much

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Heihachirō FUKUDA「福田平八郎」 (1892-1974) :: [Thanks toBeth Levin:: @op109]

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"The reverse side also has a reverse side."

— Japanese Proverb

[melonthesprigatito]

Look, I'm not interested in playing Palworld and I've been actively avoiding the drama/controversy so I'd be perfectly happy with forgetting it's existence and moving on with my life if it weren't for just how obsessively UNHINGED the Palworld fandom is, barging in on EVERY. SINGLE. recent Pokémon post on multiple platforms just to pick fights and shill the hell out of their game to (most of the time) confused Pokémon fans who are wondering what Palworld is and where these people came from.

I saw this wonderful art of the Kamado battle in Legends Arceus and the Champion battle in Sun and Moon on Instagram and I shit you not, a good 70% of the comments are entirely Palworld people just ranting and yelling about how Pokémon sucks, Palworld is going to kill Pokémon, anybody who likes Pokémon is a bootlicker and are riding Pokémon's 🍆, how anyone who complains about Palworld is a (and I quote) """"saviourf*g""" for Nintendo etc

Like, I just wanted to share my nostalgia about Sun and Moon and so did a lot of other people considering that there were still people talking about it, but it was hard to find those comments because they were drowned out by the Pals Vs Pokémon warzone.

And the second someone says something a Pal fan doesn't like, it eventually devolves into the Pal fans throwing homophobic slurs around and calling the Pokémon fans neckbeards, and shills and basement dwellers and such.

I'm sure there's probably sane fans who are just happy going about and making their Pals break rocks or whatever, but a majority of the Palworld fans I've encountered so far are like edgy screaming 4Chan people. Like, holy shit I wish they would just go to their own Palworld fan pages instead of invading Pokémon and turning every comment section into the embodiment of this meme.

(And I just want to address the whole "Pokémon Company is posting a lot more often recently because they're obviously scared of Palworld, lmaoooo why else would they suddenly start actively posting after months of radio silence 😎" argument that I've seen dozens of times.

First of all, the Pokémon channel/profile is always posting random game/anime/art screenshots. There hasn't been a sudden drastic increase of posts.

Second of all, it's A MONTH UNTIL POKÉMON DAY. THEY DO THIS EVERY YEAR. The influx of Snorlax posts is a promotional thing for Pokémon Sleep. Pokémon's just carrying on with their regularly scheduled hype building/ promotional stuff and the Palworld fans think it has something to do with them.(

[yuchenghong-art]

【 Bosozoku 】

[qiekzart]

i am back with more bad yugioh fanart

[plz reblog]

[divine-construct]

i am taking oppenheimer away from the public until everyone learns how to read and understand media because my god the public’s media literacy when it comes to oppenheimer is terribly bad.