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Edward Kienholz The State Hospital 1966

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I got really excited thinking these were shots from some new beautiful fantasy film . . . but no. Only pretty clothes I can never wear.

Dior | Spring/Summer 2021 Couture

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Dolorosa de la Cruz - A Cyperhing Lust, 2020. 

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Sculptures by Thomas Lerooy (Belgian, b. 1981)

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Visceral oil on canvas paintings by Kim Jakobsson

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This gave me all the giggles, maybe now that abject art has been driven from tumblr for being vaguely flesh coloured I’ll just re-post cats.

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Re-blogging because this photo is so uncomfortably male gaze-y

Peter Basch Monica Vitti Rome, 1960’s

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I think it has to do with the women we were accustomed to seeing on screen at the time, heroin chic waifs for the most part, or the Victoria's secret style stick with boobs. Lucy lawless looks average now, but back then her’s was not the body type we saw most often, her waist isn’t narrow, her breasts aren’t large and her thighs are bigger than her calves. She didn’t fit in the sensual and curvy or waif thin and elegant dichotomy of the time. She also just has this amazing STRONG WOMAN energy helped along by her strong jaw and deep voice and that as Xena she carried herself in a similar way as a well muscled man, shoulders back, straight spine, arms held a little away from the body or crossed over her chest, legs apart. The costumes tried to soften and sexualize her but Lucy was all “naw, short skirts mean more ease of movement for kicking butt!”

Lucy Lawless was not a particularly burly woman, but somehow she made Xena seem like a fucking tank and I don’t understand how.

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Perhaps Vampires are like camels and store the fluid to be absorbed slowly between feeding, after all this single meal must make up all their liquid and nutritional needs. We must also examine the definition of “drain”. Only 40% of the blood (about 2000ml) need to be lost to cause death. The human digestive tract can hold about 1000ml of fluid, which is insufficient, BUT the stomach can be expanded over time (look at competitive eaters) so perhaps a new vampire must take a couple smaller feedings over the course of a night but an older vampire who has sufficiently stretched the capacity of their stomach would conceivably be able to ingest the 2000ml of blood required to drain unto death the average human. 

Blood is about 50% water by volume, so of that 2000ml 1000ml is water. Humans sweat an average of 800-1400 ml of water per hour during exercise, even assuming that the average vampire’s metabolism is extremely efficient and that their cooling needs are minimal once you factor it water lost through the mouth, mucus membranes, and the eyes, they really need that water. No pissing allowed.

(I did way too much research for this silliness) 

Where does the blood go when a vampire feeds? If the stomach can hold a volume of around one quart of liquid, and the average adult human has around four to eight quarts of blood, how does a vampire drain a victim without rupturing something internally? Is the blood going to waste? Are they feeding only on small people? Or are they hollow inside and the blood fills up parts of their bodies other than their stomachs?

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dream lewks

Dress

Emile Pingat

c.1889

MFA Boston

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Edward & Nancy Reddin Kienholz / The Hoerengracht, 1983 - 1988 / mixed media tableau (305 x 1321 x 712 cm)

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Re-blogging because I’m a spinner and natural dyer . . . I’ve had many people balk at the $40 price tag on a skein of my yarn. So lets break it down:

wool: $7 

Spinning: 1 hour (wheel cost $800+)

Skeining, soaking, setting the twist: 1/4 hour

Scouring and rinsing: 1 hour

Mordanting and rinsing: 1 1/2 hours

Extracting the dye: 1-3 hours

Dying and rinsing: 1-3 hours (dye isn’t free but the cost varies a lot)

Scouring and rinsing (again): 1 hour

so we have 6.5 to 10.5 hours of work (to be fair it’s rare that I would dye one skein at a time, I usually work in batches of 3-6)

Even so, I don’t make even minimum wage on my yarn, I use local wool and source my dyes from a Canadian company. At a local yarn shop I’ve seen smaller skeins of machine spun chemically dyed, not 100% wool yarn for more. But $40 is too much . . . I don’t make much yarn anymore.

people on tumblr tend to be pretty good about the whole “you should pay artists thing” but i just want to put out there: that includes fibre artists

i can’t count the number of times i’ve been knitting or embroidering something and someone is like “oh can you make me one?” and then they get offended when i tell them they’d have to pay me.

real talk: nice yarn/wool is expensive. sewing machines are expensive. for every handmade skirt or stuffed animal you see online there are at least a half-dozen prototypes in the creator’s closet that can’t be sold.

and that’s not even getting into the time spent on these projects. i have some things i’ve probably spent in excess of 100 hours on. i can’t even fathom making a living wage knitting stuff, because nobody would ever pay that much.

tl:dr; fibre artists deserve to be paid for their time and skill just like visual artists and if you can “buy something just like that at walmart for $5″ please just do that and stop wasting our time

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Fiber Art by Maryam Ashkanian

Maryam Ashkanian, born in 1988 is an Iranian sculptor and painter. She received the Bachelor of Art in painting at the Art Faculty of Gilan University in Iran in 2012.

My childhood was embedded in textiles and sewing. Until I started at the fine arts university, I did not realise it was possible to use textiles as a medium, so I used oil painting at first. Later, I realised that oil paint was not my vision of the world. It took me awhile to understand and realise the numerous possibilities and the flexibility that textiles and sewing could bring to my practice. There were some things I couldn’t achieve in the oil painting that I can with textiles. In my work, I attempt to create a concrete conceptual body formed with many layers to achieve what my inspiration guides me to do.  

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In the hands of KT Beans, a seashell takes on unsettling qualities. See more of her sculptures here.

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It’s not spooky art but it made my morning better

I threw a dog on the ground today 😭😭😭

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Emil Melmoth