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[feminerds]

12 April 2023

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I <3 the Saturn Emoji

Jupiter has very cute rings too. (Though I think I drew them the wrong way)

WHY MAKE ART?!?

Because of the Visions! The visions are what you believe in!

What are my visions?

It's that unity↔duality thing, at least at the moment.

"All the time -- now"

I'm making things to save this little part of me, in a page, in a post, in a painting, so that I can collaborate with myself. Argue with me, agree with me. It lets me see how many things I can hold, and how many I've let go.

Sometimes, I think all artists are driven by some obsessive infatuation with all the beauty in the world OR by all its ugliness. The desire to capture it OR to correct it. We're compelled by beauty

[YOUR BRAIN ON BEAUTY]

The sky's a mirror [co-star app]

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It's so weird that they're gonna make a Cat Person movie. Other Cat Person thoughts from me. Ghost World already exists and it's perfect.

Sterope, Taygeta, Maia, Calaeno, Pleione, Alcyone, Atlas, Electra & Merope - Pleiades. The Sever Sisters.

[God is a Circle - Yves Tumor] Now Playing - Tally Tunes

Pipes, Plumbing, Dumb Plumbing!

Anemic Maiden in reply to the Iron Maiden, Lack of Blood, There Won't Be Blood.

[OK]

Polaroids are a very cool lil bit of chemistry and physics - a site where the negative is fused to the positive (print) Private and Singular.

Like a memory -

When it is a sad memory, at least it has passed. When it is a happy memory, alas it is in the past.

I just want to watch Cabaret!

[thefeminerdfiles]

File 741: EP02 - Afar with creators Kit Seaton & Leila del Duca.

File 741 is our podcast all about women in graphic novels. Don’t miss Afar:

In a fantastical post-industrial desert, fifteen-year-old Boetema suddenly develops the ability to astral project to other planets while she sleeps. When she accidentally gets a young man hurt on a planet light-years away, she must figure out a way to project back to save him. On her own world, Boetema’s two parents have temporarily left her and her thirteen-year-old brother, Inotu, to make a living as salt shepherds. Left to their own devices, the two siblings must flee across a dangerous desert when Inotu gets into trouble with a threatening cyborg bodyguard. As Boetema visits amazing planets and encounters vibrant cultures, she must confront her mistakes and learn to trust in Inotu as she navigates her newfound abilities. - See more 

The Feminerd Files

[izzzzzzieeeeeeeee]

tagged by @downwithpeople, put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that play

1. Slippery People - Talking Heads

2. No Shows - Gerard Way

3. You Gotta Love This City - The Whitlams

4. How’s That - FKA Twigs

5. House of Wolves - My Chemical Romance

6. Skeleton Man - Axis of Awesome

7. 80 Miles - Washington

8. Fired - Ben Folds

9. Plan A - The Dandy Warhols

10. Search and Destroy - Iggy and the Stooges

I tag: @zerlibat, @feminerds, @tentacruelhentai, @greencristina, @angelaslamsbury

[mgtowquotes]

Do Female Film Critics Need a Safe Space?

Article here. Excerpt:

'Social media have been buzzing this week with anger and anguish about the gender breakdown of critics of the new movie Captain Marvel. Most are men. There is an excellent reason for this: Most movie critics are men. And there is an excellent reason for that: Men are much more willing publicly to express opinions than women. There is a natural experiment on the matter, which is the letters pages of newspapers. Anyone can write a letter to the editor; there are no barriers to entry. The vast majority of those who do so are male.

“All the negative reviews for #CaptainMarvel are from men,” declared a tweet by the feminerd site The Mary Sue. This assertion can easily be disproven, and it immediately was, as helpful readers appended to that ridiculous claim excerpts from negative notices by Stephanie Zacharek of Time, Mara Reinstein from Us, Kristin Lopez of Culturess, Lindsey Bahr of the Associated Press, Laura Clifford of Reeling Reviews, etc. The story linked by the tweet hedges a bit with the headline, “Captain Marvel Is Fun and Most the [sic] Negative Reviews Are Written by Men … Shocking” before going on to state, in the body of the story, “It is telling that every negative review of the movie was written by a man.” A bit of a waffler, this Mary Sue person. Somewhat of a flibbertigibbet.'

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[celestial-ariel]

Yesterday I got to celebrate the birthday of @feminerdity one of my most favorite people in the whole world!!!Here is to you babe another year more fantastic!!!! #theyareanicelady #todorokihadabirthdayhat #kareoke #theylaughedthecandleout #samwassingingallstar #wedontknowhowtopausethesongs (at The Venue) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn6noKwDNIT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qiotroty2u72

[feminerding]

Why am I reading this . . .

Welcome to the FemiNerds Blog,

I’m glad you have taken some time out of your day to read my thoughts, rants and observations. I thought I would take this chance to introduce myself; I’m Remy and I am  . . . wait for it . . .  a Feminist Nerd! I know the title didn’t give that away...

I have been a defined feminist for about 5 years, but I have been a nerd much longer. Although I can’t place the exact moment I became a nerd; I would guess it started with the words “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.” (J.K Rowling)

Ever since Hagrid kicked down my door and told me that I was a wizard, I have been unapologetically nerdy. You have been warned!

Back to Feminism for a second... I am not an SJW, but I am the scary kind of feminist. I am the kind with a degree in women and gender studies, the kind with critical thinking skills and the kind that will use verifiable facts in a discussion. The kind who will passionately ( and loudly) tell you why I will not be silenced. I AM A CREDIBLE HULK.

Hopefully when you take some time to read this you will find that I try to look at issues from both sides; but I am not afraid to call out injustice. I am also a “Bad Feminist” (Roxane Gay). I am and never will be the ideal feminist and I know that I can always learn more. I accept that I will be proven wrong and I will correct mistakes as they come up.

I may even change my opinion on a topic.

This is day one of my attempt to speak to the world, or at the very least a small part of it. ...Lets see what happens!

May this blog live long and prosper.

[feminerds]

07 April 2024

26.6% of the Year

Creature

Frottage - Verbatim Floppy Disc (HD) labelled: TROUBLE! ok. OK!

I always feel like I'm overstating my progress, but like it really was May 1st 2019 when I wrote my dangerfield resignation letter.

Every time I leave a situation frustrated and filled with the spirit of the stairs, I have to remind myself (over and over and over) - No Grit. No Pearl.

I came here looking for trouble, because that's when you learn and... I can't seem to find anything else!

Never Post - Never Post Podcast. (Australia Maria Island TAS 10c Postage Stamp)

[epileptic-disco]

I got some new ink done! Unfortunately, it has a misspelling but I am going to get it fixed once it heals, as well as color. Shout out to @feminerds for giving me permission to get this wonderful artwork on my leg!

[hexperiment]

Haunted Bakery blogged all the good Qld gothics.

thankyou, you kind wonderful soul!!

[novembart]

Day Three - Morning Routine

[feminerds]

17 FEB 2024

The MCR that exists inside the minds of obsessives (me) is kind of like the holy mother (Mary) -- it's not the thing or even a representation of that thing anymore. It's not even a simulacra (? I might be pushing it with this - because upon reflection I think I might be describing a simulacra quite accurately actually - haha)

it no longer bears a likeness, really at all. An idol is what the k-pop darlings call it, and that makes sense to me. I feel it's closest to an effigy. An item that has had so much projected upon it, it becomes holy*.

Wholly unrecognisable

GIMME ALL THAT PAIN

That Gucci Scent - The Last Day of Summer

*Holy - to the holder, and item of ultimate projection. Like close reading. Like for what you really collect is always yourself**. Like all fan art, is just art, is just a reflection of self and now. A light bent through the body.

**Baudrillard, The System of Objects

I also saw this 30 day song challenge, the other day and I'm thinking I might do it.

God help me, do I have an artists' practice at all? Or is my artists practice just hanging out and participating in the goofy little teenage challenges and what-not. Is my artist practice just being a very online teenager for ever?!

[mchronister]

Librarians need to work harder at unpacking 'nice lady' values and collaborate with our communities (including the folks who don't feel welcome in libraries) to refine our library collections and services so that we are a safe and welcoming place for all folks. Doing this will make libraries safer for many people, including queers.

Tara Robertson

[feminerds]

Tiny Amphora

|-Actual Size-|

I went to the museum of Ancient Glass and saw loys of tiny glassware!

Fertile Earth

Cherries Chesnuts Pommegranites Figs Raspberries roses Hazelnuts Olives Oranges Cabbages Corn Blackberries Lemons Grapes

and the wine dark sea

Croatia | Oct 2023 | Tornado? Zadar

[feminerds]

Memory Disk

27 June 2023

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

― Brian Eno, 1996, A Year With Swollen Appendices

My Planet

Brunswick 2023

[feminerds]

Page from Jan 2022

This page is from the when I was kind of realising I wanted to do the “opposite of bullet journaling”.

When the fight is a collab, how do we survive it?

We must survive it.

Babe - You've simply got to fix ur heart and carry on as if anything is ever simple

It feels to me like a return to the origins of the journal, maybe the journal has always been a grenade? Waiting to explode.

An item, which in the wrong hands, will destroy.

Again Against

Against Method

Is hand grenade journalling against method? in opposition to the aspirational mentality of bullet journals.

Journaling to become less productive

Journaling to confuse myself

Journaling to forget

Sticker - Flash Forward Podcast. One of the best futurist podcasts to ever do it!

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25 March 2023

First quarter of the year is about to draw to a close.

Same old bad brain, well if it isn't me breaking my own heaart. I wish I just didn't feel or process things, I do [sic] the way I do.

Always thinking 'About Adam'

"Hey Bird! I know the true name of god."

Without really thinking about it, I have started yelling this at wild animals that look at me. I think I say it because it's what I hear or feel when animals look at me. I'm curious if this is something I've seen in a film or picked up from somewhere, if feels affected, but I honestly cannot place it, or at least I cannot place it, to a place outside of me?

Mangawhai, Aotearoa

Do you suppose birds know about negative space and gaps and silences in the text? (This is kind of a joke about the QLD English syllabus in 2004)

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21 March 2023

Solving <Laceration Gravity?

Solving Wobbly Stars

Gravity vs Yearning

An icon for the growing plurality of voices and perspectives? in STEM? In the world?

Lens and Light

This is kind of the main ideaa I've been noodling with for a[nother] zine I want to eventually make about the star as symbol. Like it's definitely cool and interesting that stars are one of the constants in all representational art. Like celestial bodies are one of the first things we record, as culture, as people, we see them and we want to draw them! Currently there is a trend or movement or feature of a lot of indie art in the late 2010/early 2020s to include twinkles or sparkling ornamentation in illustrations. Ornamentation, of course, is hardly new, and neither are stars in art (the seven sisters babyyyyyyy), but the twinkle style is kind of evolving at the moment. With what I recognise as a recent spike in representing the star/twinkle as irregular or wobbly. This is also an evolving aesthetic in many areas of contemporary life, I see it especially clearly in jewelry design right now. Previously stars were represented as point lights, and then regular radial point lights, not exclusively but predominantly. I think that the transition from point lights to regular radial point lights is related to increased access to lenses and viewing apparatus. The anime style four point twinkle, made enormously famous by shows like Sailor Moon, rose to its huge cultural status in lockstep with the deluge of space images from the Hubble Space Telescope (and other contemporary terrestrial telescopes which also featured photographic artifacts or diffraction patterns derived from the four struts used to support the primary mirror), which of course impacted contemporary artists. We are already beginning to see the impact of the James Webb Space Telescope in contemporary art/fashion/popular aesthetic. However I place the emergence of the "wobbly star"TM not solely on the shoulders of JWST, but on the subsequent realisation that the change in the star pattern from HST to JWST, broke the spell of the four point star as a given, the four point diffraction pattern for the first time since We started receiving space photographs was recognised as an artifact not a natural aspect of stars. Astronomers and Physicists stayed knowing this, of course, but we needed the images to change to know this - maybe that's true for them too?

Any way, this change in the image then supposes a new series of questions for us.

Where is the image constructed?

The Star itself? The collisions that create the photons? The distance the light traverses? The atmosphere it then travels through? The increasing molecular density that filters it? The lens that refocuses it? And then the lens that refocuses that? The housing of that lens, its shape, form and material? The sensor/s that captures the light? The codex used to record the data? Or the codex that in turn decodes this data into an image? The screen that projects it? The printer that produces it? The eye that captures that reflection? Or the mind that understands it?

How many lens known and unknown does light pass through before we recognise it as an image?

The wobbly or irregular star, in some ways implicates the 'suture lines' of the optical nerve, that to each person create a unique diffraction pattern, in each eye separately. It implicates the messiness of receiving an image, the unusually unique circumstances of receiving an image. I like to think of it as a sign or symbol of the beginning of understanding the necessity and value of diversity in STEM (maybe, at least I hope it is) and maybestars more broadly just in people. I think the wobbly star comes very specifically out of this moment, from modernity and identity politics and anime and space telescopes and instagram and printers and physicists, and that's all very exciting. I like when society sublimates a thing happening in many places into an aesthetic and a symbol. That stars can be so many things to so many people, points, like a star in many directions. To our diversity, but also to our sameness. That we all look up.