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Birdies, birdies

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two birds on a wire

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Damselfrau

Self-taught artist Magnhild Kennedy who works as ‘Damselfrau’, uses found and vintage materials to create elaborate masks. Mesh netting, sequined appliques, ribbons, beads, and pompoms come together in Kennedy’s wearable artworks, which she documents and shares on Instagram. Leaving space for her eyes, the artist otherwise completely obscures her face and poses against a blank background with patterned fabric draped around her shoulders. The artist declines to attach specific meaning or intention to each creation, instead leaving the interpretive experience up to the viewer. [Colossal]

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A general in her ceremonial attire and a noble girl in her ball gown.

Moths and butterflies tend to incorporate armor-like elements into their outfits even if they are not connected to the army, though these elements are significantly lighter and more ornate than their functional counterparts. Sometimes this decorative armor is made of porcelain.

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‘A Cluster of Rats’, a Japanese Netsuke (small sculpture) dated late 19th century

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Traditional Palestinian handwoven embroidery تطريز made by refugees in Lebanon in the 1970s.

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Antonio Marras Fall 2020

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two 1964 USSR stamps depicting butter mushrooms and chanterelles

[id: two postage stamps, both with detailed illustrations of mushrooms. the top stamp depicts a cluster of butter mushrooms, which have brown caps and white stalks. the bottom stamp depicts a cluster of chanterelle mushrooms, which are yellow and have caps that are frilled at the edge. both stamps have an attached label with the same illustration. the illustration on the labels depict a cluster of assorted fungi and is less detailed. end id]

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The Structure

South Korean drawing teacher An Jae Hyun (안재현) will clearly show you how to feel and correctly depict the structure of an object. This will help you learn and improve your drawing skills.

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Adolfo Apolloni, 1904

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Drop pattern. A text book dealing with ornamental design for woven fabrics. 1897.

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Rebellious girls in the 1920s wanted to anger and shock their Victorian-era parents, so not only would they bare their knees with short dresses, but they would also paint pictures to make sure an onlooker didn’t miss their risque hem length. Rolled stockings became a fad with the shorter hemlines, and girls would go get roses, butterflies, ocean scenes, or their dogs’ faces painted on their knees to further push their boundaries. Much like with most makeup in women’s history, this wasn’t just an act of creativity, but an assertion of independence. After World War I, more women gained financial independence with work, broke away from chaperoned parlor dates, and became a part of the public by walking the city streets without a guardian. The new generation felt a need to express this clear break from the old era of Gibson Girls and Victorian women, and they did so with the help of paint and knee rouge. “Because of rolled stockings and short skirts they, like their fair owners, are emancipated,” The San Francisco Examinershared in 1925. The girls were no longer wearing the oppressive corsets of the previous generation, which is partly why rolled stockings became a fad — there was nowhere to clip their hosiery to.

Painted knees were also an experiment in owning sexuality. Rouged knees would seem flushed (hinting at sex,) and painted knees would bring attention to body parts that were stigmatized just a few short decades back. But these moments of self-rule were oftentimes punished, as students in Ohio Northern learned in 1925. Girls had been drawing roses on their knees, and the dean called an emergency meeting to get them to stop. “It was intimated that some of the professors had not been able to do their best work owing to the profusion of knees in certain classes, that it is difficult for a mere male instructor to think of the Einstein theory, for example, with a tastefully decorated knee — well, staring him in the face, as it were,” The San Francisco Examiner wrote. The fad eventually fell out of vogue, but it resurfaced again in the 1960s — during an era where skirts rose in hemline, women pushed for independence, and embraced their sexual freedom once more. Painted knees were the perfect compliment to mini-skirts and Bermuda shorts, and a student interviewed for The News in 1966 said that she painted her knees so often that she could “put it on faster than face makeup.” (source)

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“Listen, no one signed up for this lullaby. No bleeped sheep or rosebuds or twitching stars will diminish the fear or save you from waking into the same day you dreamed of leaving— mockingbird on back order, morning bells stuck on snooze—so you might as well get up and at it, pestilence be damned. Peril and risk having become relative, I’ll try to couch this in positive terms: Never! is the word of last resorts, Always! the fanatic’s rallying cry. To those inclined toward kindness, I say Come out of your houses drumming. All others, beware: I have discarded my smile but not my teeth.”

— “Incantation of the First Order” by Rita Dove

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lets make a videogame how hard can it be

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Photo taken inside a very old French cello from Napoleon III times. Credits: Adrian Borda

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Anne Bachelier’s illustrations for The Phantom of the Opera

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