#Nouveau Hot

[mote-historie]

Art Nouveau Poster illustration by Manuel Orazi for Job Cigarette Paper, 1902.

[scarymonsters-andsupercreeps]

LIAR, LIAR, THEY NEVER EVER LET YOU IN

LIAR, LIAR, EVERYTHING YOU DO IS SIN

[strwberrythorn]

Sketching Chappell

[bbaycon]

I’m going nut, 50 pulls and no Neuvillette

Lourvine and Jurieu are adorable tho

[furiousfinnstan]

commission for @seere-mela

[resident-problem]

[ragrfisk]

It came to me in a dream

[wanderingblindly]

In the spirit of your squirting anon (insane thing to be known for I love it) future past and prospective aspect were the only two things that I could get off to in the wake of a three month situationship where I physically couldn't come lmao. Also I'm pretty sure I came in my pants the first time I read Future Past. I've also been re-reading some of your older stuff, Nouveau Hot was my first landoscar fic and it's still amazing 💓💓 Basically your smut is transcendent and you're fabulous

(….squirting anon // future past // prospective aspect // nouveau hot)

I’m so glad you’re freed of the THREE MONTH bad-lay situationship what the fuck?????? I’m also so honored that these were the fics that got you off for the first time in months,,,, that must’ve been uhhh Insane,,,,

NOUVEAU HOT WAS YOUR FIRST??? OH GOD THAT WAS MY FIRST SMUT HAHAHAHAHA IM CRINGING BUT ALSO KISSING UR HAND

[goatsandgangsters]

the design movements with "art" in the name are all such winners

arts and crafts. art nouveau. art deco.

all bangers, all the time

[scarymonsters-andsupercreeps]

Here’s the painting I posted those WIPs about! This is the first traditional painting I’ve done in a while and you can definitely tell, but I think it turned out alright!

I used watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and colored pencils, plus my brush pens and fine liners for inking.

Close ups under the cut!

The last one is in different lighting and before I took it off the pad.

I know my traditional style isn’t as pretty as my digital style but I hope you guys still like her!

[hyenaboycunt]

I'm dealing with "strangers who I find attractive consistently find me attractive in return" suddenly and for the first time in my life. So I tried to vent to girlthing about how it's confusing to once again be relearning how to navigate social interactions. But she's been hot the whole time. So she has literally zero helpful advice.

[jeunepapachaud]

Je suis ici pour décompresser et non me prendre la tête!

Hâte de rencontrer de nouvelles personnes 😁

[photosbyjez]

Photography and AI Fusion: Reimagining Hawthorn with Art-Nouveau Style -- FOTD Jun 27

Explore the fusion of photography and AI with this Art-Nouveau-inspired Hawthorn transformation. A unique blend of nature and digital art. #aiart #aiartwork #aiartcommunity

Hi all 👋 My latest post for Cee’s FOTD. With Cee recuperating, I’ll be posting flowers daily to give her a bit of floral delight (my version of a bouquet) 💐 Hawthorn As with my latest Fan Of… post (see link 👇), I’m exploring some DALL-E AI preset styles for my edits. For today, I’ve done an art-nouveau-style edit. I like the swirling elegance of this style & particularly the border in the…

[possiblythreefourthspeahen]

OP if you haven't yet I really recommend you look into art jewelry - it's pretty different from most commercial jewelry, tends to be a lot more experimental, and goes beyond showing pretty rocks (though I also adore pretty rocks). It's not all art nouveau in style, but the philosophy and emphasis is similar: jewelry as wearable art, a creation in itself, sculpture that stands on its own or with the backdrop and context of the body. Art Jewelry Forum is free and has loads of pictures, articles, and interviews to read:

There's also narrative jewelry, a subsection of art jewelry, which uses form and material to tell a story. My favorite narrative jewelers are Carolyn Morris Bach and Kim Noguiera.

There's also some incredible enamelists working today. The Enamelist Society is a great place to learn more about enameling and current enamelists:

One of my personal favorite enamelists is Sandra McEwen and while her style isn't exactly art nouveau, it carries a lot of the flowing lines, natural forms, and vivid colors from the style.

And enamel jewelry, actually enamel jewelry, is not cheap! The cheap "enamel" - the stuff on pins and key chains and some costume jewelry - is actually an enamel paint or resin. Fine, vitreous enamel, actual glass fused to metal, is extremely labor intensive and priced appropriately. Sandra McEwen has a cicada pendant for sale that is basically just that central piece on a pearl strand and it is almost 3,000 dollars. If I had the money I would snatch it up in a heartbeat.

Anyway that's my jewelry rant for the day, there are awesome jewelers and enamels all around the world making beautiful, fascinating pieces you won't find at Kay's or Jared's or any other chain store. I hope these links and pictures are a good starting point for anyone looking to find them.

A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?

[the1920sinpictures]

"Some Like It Hot" behind the scenes. Jamie Lee Curtis visits her father on set. From Vintage Hollywood Nouveau, FB.

[piratesexmachine420]

Thoughts on Linux (the OS)

Misconception!

I don't want to be obnoxiously pedantic, but Linux is not an OS. It is a kernel, which is just part of an OS. (Like how Windows contains a lot more than just KERNEL32.DLL). A very, very important piece, which directly shapes the ways that all the other programs will talk to each other. Think of it like a LEGO baseplate.

Everything else is built on top of the kernel. But, a baseplate does not a city make. We need buildings! A full operating system is a combination of a kernel and kernel-level (get to talk to hardware directly) utilities for talking to hardware (drivers), and userspace (get to talk to hardware ONLY through the kernel) utilities ranging in abstraction level from stuff like window management and sound servers and system bootstrapping to app launchers and file explorers and office suites. Every "Linux OS" is a combination of that LEGO baseplate with some permutation of low and high-level userspace utilities.

Now, a lot of Linux-based OSes do end up feeling (and being) very similar to each other. Sometimes because they're directly copying each other's homework (AKA forking, it's okay in the open source world as long as you follow the terms of the licenses!) but more generally it's because there just aren't very many options for a lot of those utilities.

Want your OS to be more than just a text prompt? Your pick is between X.org (old and busted but...well, not reliable, but a very well-known devil) and Wayland (new hotness, trying its damn hardest to subsume X and not completely succeeding). Want a graphics toolkit? GTK or Qt. Want to be able to start the OS? systemd or runit. (Or maybe SysVinit if you're a real caveman true believer.) Want sound? ALSA is a given, but on top of that your options are PulseAudio, PipeWire, and JACK. Want an office suite? Libreoffice is really the only name in the game at present. Want terminal utilities? Well, they're all gonna have to conform to the POSIX spec in some capacity. GNU coreutils, busybox, toybox, all more or less the same programs from a user perspective.

Only a few ever get away from the homogeneity, like Android. But I know that you're not asking about Android. When people say "Linux OS" they're talking about the homogeneity. The OSes that use terminals. The ones that range in looks from MacOS knockoff to Windows knockoff to 'impractical spaceship console'. What do I think about them?

I like them! I have my strongly-felt political and personal opinions about which building blocks are better than others (generally I fall into the 'functionality over ideology' camp; Nvidia proprietary over Nouveau, X11 over Wayland, Systemd over runit, etc.) but I like the experience most Linux OSes will give me.

I like my system to be a little bit of a hobby, so when I finally ditched Windows for the last time I picked Arch Linux. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to treat their OS as a hobby, though. There are better and easier options for 'normal users'.

I like the terminal very much. I understand it's intimidating for new users, but it really is an incredible tool for doing stuff once you're in the mindset. GUIs are great when you're inexperienced, but sometimes you just wanna tell the computer what you want with your words, right? So many Linux programs will let you talk to them in the terminal, or are terminal-only. It's very flexible.

I also really, really love the near-universal concept of a 'package manager' -- a program which automatically installs other programs for you. Coming from Windows it can feel kinda restrictive that you have to go through this singular port of entry to install anything, instead of just looking up the program and running an .msi file, but I promise that if you get used to it it's very hard to go back. Want to install discord? yay -S discord. Want to install firefox? yay -S firefox. Minecraft? yay -S minecraft-launcher. etc. etc. No more fucking around in the Add/Remove Programs menu, it's all in one place! Only very rarely will you want to install something that isn't in the package manager's repositories, and when you do you're probably already doing something that requires technical know-how.

Not a big fan of the filesystem structure. It's got a lot of history. 1970s mainframe computer operation procedure history. Not relevant to desktop users, or even modern mainframe users. The folks over at freedesktop.org have tried their best to get at least the user's home directory cleaned up but...well, there's a lot of historical inertia at play. It's not a popular movement right now but I've been very interested in watching some people try to crack that nut.

Aaaaaand I think those are all the opinions I can share without losing everyone in the weeds. Hope it was worth reading!