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Blazing sun. The new story of seeing. 1930.

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Parkin Lot - Charlie Irmiger , 2024.

American , b. ?

Oil on board , 6 x 6 in.

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1993 Baby Godzilla Canon BELPIA copier ad

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Liminal Dreams - Far Shores by Artur Sadlos

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist

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Kim Tschang-Yeul (South Korean, 1929-2021), Untitled (Water Drops), 1976. Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 33 cm.

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Need a new lo-fi stream?

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no i didnt get that from a video essay im a little more well read than that thanks. i got it from the abstract for a study i didnt read the rest of

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Two Women Teaching a Child to walk by Rembrandt.

Circa 1640, sketch

British Museum, London

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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

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Kyiv Chestnuts by Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Sydoruk. 1985.

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A rare Shibayama inlaid ‘Mille-Fleurs’ tsuba, Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912). Photo: Sotheby’s.

of mokko form, each side decorated in the Shibayama style on a silver ground with a dense bouquet of mixed flowers including chrysanthemum, peony, hydrangea and sakura, all skillfully inlaid in stained mother-of-pearl, with elegant cloisonné enamel butterflies among peonies around the seppadai, mokkogata silver mounted mimi, 9.7cm.; 3.8in.

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[image description: photos of a small print done letterpress from handset type. it's a trifold with round corners. closed, it's 3.5x5 inches. extended, it's 10 inches of 12 pt. type, a stream of consciousness about all the unspoken details that could be underneath using "any pronouns"; it starts legibly in green and fades to nearly unreadable transparency by the end. at the end it says "this doesn't fit on a nametag." full text under the cut. photos also of the form of handset type used to print it, where every letter and space is an individual piece of lead cast in relief, assembled by hand for the project and then distributed back into individual pieces after. end description.]

etsy

i usually let the text sit longer, go back to it, edit more, before i set anything. but i guess it's appropriate that here i, mm, upchucked it all in a note over about two hours, let it devolve into incoherency, and didn't mess around trying to over-work it the next day. just let it be what it is & set.

Anzeigen Grotesk, Alternate Gothic, bulk in Tannhauser. Very happy to be able to use the Tannhauser, which is one of my favorite faces for its own qualities but also for sentimental reasons, being one of my mother's favorites first. I've got well over enough for this—probably three full founts in the case—although not quite enough Didot spacing, not in the whole shop :/ and no larger sizes of the face, so it's tough to implement in most commissioned projects.

anyway! this is sort of a coming out for me in an extremely anticlimactic way. i've been answering when asked and introducing myself to new people as such for a while but frankly i didn't meet new people that often until recently, and i mostly didn't mention it to anybody who knew me already. just been percolating on it. didn't feel pressed before to change my way of being around anyone or make any prints about it. then it did press, sort of suddenly & strangely. lots of reasons for that which i could speculate on but shan't.

always grateful to anybody who bothers to read all the dang words i put on one of these, it's a lot, and i've seen several responses to it now, all very gratifying or sweet or funny or kind in their own way. as always i was worried that this meant nothing outside of my head, but certainly it's proven to be one of those things where, in being as specific to myself as possible, it's come back around to being something other people can see in themselves.

"Any Pronouns, by which I mean it doesn't matter to me which you use but if you switch it up I'll feel like I got a gold star in gender today which isn't your responsibility to provide for me although also if you only ever use she I will start to judge you a little, quietly, in the back of my head where you can't hear, because I did say any and I do mean it, and you know the closer we get the less this applies; imagine how much of me in the mind of someone who cares well could be build out of s h e, that is, not a lot, so of course the times I am most uncomfortable are with strangers, like waiters and tech support and flight attendants, who don't get an introduction, who are very busy, and I guess all of this makes it seem like what actually bothers me is projecting what I think people are thinking about me, which would be a more interesting point if I weren't right about it, about what people think of always she, who isn't good or bad or anything but isn't me, besides which it isn't about collecting a basket full of words for me to keep, what would I do with them alone, it's for me but it doesn't happen without you, if not for you it wouldn't hurt but without you it won't heal either. This doesn't fit on a nametag."

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It continues

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K.D. Lang sings Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

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Ørnulf Opdahl（Norwegian, b.1944）

Vinternatt via

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Kawanabe Kyosai, White Heron in the Rain, colour woodblock print, Japan, 1880