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lermondsibert · 1 day

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#bag #dialogue #bromance #string #unrest #sexy jhope #beginner #water #lost girl

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glitchadeli · 2 days

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Lil' bit of an art dump 'cause why not!! :P The first one I just finished today for Lesbian Visibility week!! Pearl and Kindle are a couple I don't talk about much but I do really love them!! <333 (as I do with all my next gen couples tbh) The rest are random GumRob sketches from the last few days!!! and a thing of Eli I did last night (based on a sketch from Echo lol, credit to them for that!!) <333 Idc what anyone says about GumRob, I love them / my AU version of them and they're sickeningly in love, deal with it <333333 + Bonus thing of Eli and Rodney from a while back that I never posted DFGHJKL:

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zegalba · 4 months

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Chiharu Shiota: A Tide of Emotions (2023)

#chiharu shiota #A Tide of Emotions #art #installation #red #string #boat #japan #sculpture #2023

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quotesfrommyreading · 1 year

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In his 1956 book The Marlinspike Sailor, marine illustrator Hervey Garrett Smith wrote that rope is “probably the most remarkable product known to mankind.” On its own, a stray thread cannot accomplish much. But when several fibers are twisted into yarn, and yarn into strands, and strands into string or rope, a once feeble thing becomes both strong and flexible—a hybrid material of limitless possibility. A string can cut, choke, and trip; it can also link, bandage, and reel. String makes it possible to sew, to shoot an arrow, to strum a chord. It’s difficult to think of an aspect of human culture that is not laced through with some form of string or rope; it has helped us develop shelter, clothing, agriculture, weaponry, art, mathematics, and oral hygiene. Without string, our ancestors could not have domesticated horses and cattle or efficiently plowed the earth to grow crops. If not for rope, the great stone monuments of the world—Stonehenge, the Pyramids at Giza, the moai of Easter Island—would still be recumbent. In a fiberless world, the age of naval exploration would never have happened; early light bulbs would have lacked suitable filaments; the pendulum would never have inspired advances in physics and timekeeping; and there would be no Golden Gate Bridge, no tennis shoes, no Beethoven’s fifth symphony.

“Everybody knows about fire and the wheel, but string is one of the most powerful tools and really the most overlooked,” says Saskia Wolsak, an ethnobotanist at the University of British Columbia who recently began a PhD on the cultural history of string. “It’s relatively invisible until you start looking for it. Then you see it everywhere.”

— The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String