#also extant

[izogod]

sketchbook 25.09.2023

#image id in alt text #my art #sketchbook #traditional art #barbary lion #extinct animals #also extant #blue whale #posca #coloured pencils #ballpoint pens

[skylarkspinner]

fiber art adventures in egypt

I recently got back from a trip to Egypt & finally got around to organizing some pictures to share. One of the things I was most excited about was seeing what I could find on fiber arts and textiles.

Dropping everything under a read more, 'cause this will be a long post haha

first visit: the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC)

At the time of visiting, they had a special textiles exhibit. It covered Pharonic Egypt all the way up to modern times, although I only had time to check out the dynastic & a bit of the Coptic portion of the exhibit (which was what I was really hoping to see anyways)

Was super excited to see this diorama in person. I knew about it but had never seen good pictures of it. From the little I've seen of ancient Egyptian spinning, spinning with two spindles seems to be the norm rather than a master technique? It also shows up in tomb art, which the exhibit also shared:

They also used a different fiber preparation (splicing to create a rove of fiber, no traditional drafting to my understanding) so that probably made a difference? Regardless I really want to see if I can replicate the technique, especially because their spindles look so similar to modern spindles??

I took so many pictures of spindles, guys, and I fully intend to either have a few replicas made or to learn to make some myself. Also, although they were unlabeled... I'm pretty sure those are beaters for weaving? That was a bit of a trend with this trip, so much stuff was unlabeled :( I would've killed to at least get some date estimates for some of the stuff they had on display. I was nerding out in here though, and my family took a few pictures of how excited I was getting. A bit embarrassing, but eh haha

The exhibit also had a section on natural dyes used with a fun visual;

There was several diagrams specifically describing each dye source, but in the interest of not overloading on pictures I'll just list them out. For blues; woad, Yellows; turmeric, safflower, saffron, or yellow ochre; reds; madder, henna, pomegranate, and kermes. I originally thought kermes was another way to say cochineal, but it only seems to be distantly related.

next visit: Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center

A small art center dedicated to hand-weaving wool and cotton tapestries. All of their work was museum quality & awe inspiring!!

Was even invited to their back rooms to watch a few of their weavers working; no I don't have room to put a room-sized loom anywhere but heck do I want one now

Our guide that took us through talked a bit about the natural dyes they use (all of their dyes are dyed in house with what they grow in their dye garden!!!) and got excited to hear I was also interested in natural dyes! He seemed a bit disappointed I'd never worked with indigo and. while indigo scares me, I'll take it as a sign that maybe I should try some time this year haha.

final visit; the Egyptian Museum

we really had to rush through this one which was a huge shame because it's packed full of artifacts. Also, the lighting in there is atrocious, so apologies for the not great pictures ahead.

They had a fascinating display of textile tools, more than what the NMEC had;

(Hand for size reference) I want all of these spindles! So badly! But a few of them look so much like a few of the spindles I own already?? A few of them had a spiraling notch, that's so cool? But also, what's going on with the one with two whorls? I have no idea. I'm fascinated.

Look at these whorls!! Although again, I'm a bit confused; the lack of labeling strikes again. Unsure why some of these "whorls" have two holes, or what the metal object with the wooden handle is. The display implies sewing needles, and some of them do look like it, but others.... really don't look like sewing needles. I'm absolutely enchanted by this little whorl though. I think it has birds on it?

More objects that I'm baffled by- the signage doesn't really indicate what some of this stuff is, if it's even known. Also confused by the object wrapped in white string in the right pic; it looks like a distaff but to the best of my knowledge the (ancient at least) Egyptians didn't use distaffs. It probably popped up in later times and was put in this display since it was still relevant, but I'm still not sure.

I have so many more pictures & thoughts but I'll save those for more specific future projects. I've been doing research outside this trip on ancient Egyptian spinning techniques and desperately want to go deeper into that, this trip just solidified how excited it makes me. If you made it all the way through this, many thanks for reading!

Bonus; look at this ancient linen 🥺

#hand spinning #archaeology #extant artifact #weaving #fiber arts #long post #letters from skylark #sorry for the overall low quality images in this post. Got a new camera and wasn't the best at using it this trip #also the raw image files were huge so I heavily downsized them to make sure this post wasn't a beast to load #would be happy to share the raw images if desired though

[couch-house]

knuckles and his dinosaur friends :)

#sth #stc #knuckles the echidna #fleetway knuckles #sonic the hedgehog #sonic the comic #miles tails prower #amy rose #fanart #comics #id in alt text #ft pterodactyl. unnamed theropod thing. and the kohenyu #do u think after the ancient knuckles reveal he was ever like oh FUUUCK the kohenyu were right i did do that :( #kinda ruins the point of that story but not really. oh well #anyway the only time i draw dinosaurs is when i mail samples for sequencing so BE NICE.... #THE ONES IN THE COMIC ARE VERY EXAGGERATED ANYWAY... #speaking of. very fun that dinosaurs are just. extant modern animals in stc. #oh yeah um these r referencing issues 94. 179. and 69-72 #the graveyard is one of my favorite stories. i have issues with it. but i do also love it. ANNDN its beautiful soooo

[tinteduse]

the warvel comic (og)

#scheduled post. this is actually mmmm pretty old #authors note: no warvels are not real or a real animal at that and i am pretty sure this is also a made up word #sorry #i believe that mikey could be great at coming up with very beautiful and awesome fantastical creatures #and he talks about those made up animals like they are very very real and he sounds and is very very convincing #and donnies like no mikey thats not true i know all animals and none of your animals are real see (and he lists down every single animal) #extinct or extant #but mikey is unbothered #because he loves speculative zoology #immovable AUTISM encounters unstoppable AUTISM #my art #tmnt #rottmnt #donnie #mikey #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt mikey #bright colors #insects

[leroibobo]

kadavumbagam synagogue in kochi, kerala, india. it's also known as the "cochin blossoms synagogue" for its floral details.

malabari jews trace their origins to jews who'd come to present-day kerala from the middle east from antiquity. the synagogue was renovated in 1700, but the original dates back to the 12th-13th centuries. it was said to have been built by jews who'd fled persecution to kochi's ernakalum district. the specifics of the story vary.

after a period of abandonment beginning in the 1970s, it was restored in 2018 by local josephai "babu" elias and is now in use again. it's currently the oldest functioning synagogue in india.

#india #kerala #architecture #interior #worship #jewish #mizrahi #abrahamic kerala #my posts #it's also the oldest functioning synagogue in the commonwealth countries but that's not a really high bar #england kicked out jews for a few hundred years until the renaissance period when they let some sephardim in #everywhere else either had ancient jewish communities that are long gone and/or didn't have extant jewish communities until #the 1500s or later or never had jewish communities at all #except for nigeria (igbo jews) but this ones still the oldest

[jessicas-pi]

She did not shrink back, though the pupils of her eyes dilated. Was it the wildest thing in the world which happened to her—or was it not? Without warning—the sudden rush of a thought, immense and strange, swept over her body and soul and possessed her—so possessed her that it changed her pallor to white flame. It was actually Anstruthers who shrank back a shade because, for the moment, she looked so near unearthly.

“I am not afraid of you,” she said, in a clear, unshaken voice. “I am not afraid. Something is near me which will stand between us—something which DIED to-day.”

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behold: my artistic contribution to the small but enthusiastic You Should Totally Read The Shuttle (1907) By Frances Hodgson Burnett campaign

#I was gonna draw the full scene with Nigel too but then I remembered that I actually do not know what he looks like #so I just did betty #fun fact!! I based Betty's riding habit off of pictures of an actual extant riding habit on the Met museum website! #(though idk if hers would be fancier or not) #oh an her hairstyle is based off of an illustration of several women on horseback in that time so that's semi-accurate too! #I didn't give her the hat/veil that she would have been wearing because I couldn't get that to look right in the drawing #but hey maybe just it fell off when she fell off her horse or something #the shuttle #jessica's art #oh yeah also I spent like 20 minutes examining the book for details to clue me in to when it took place so I could be accurate lol #I know it was written in 1907 but some parts of it made me wonder if it was set before then so i did the math #judging from the references to nigel being raised in the early victorian era my best guess is probably between 1870 and 1890!

[death-limes]

fuckin uuuuuuuuuuh sorry if this is a hot take or anything but “ai art is theft and unfair to the ppl who made the original art being sampled” doesnt suddenly become not true if the person generating the ai art is disabled

and its also possible to hold that opinion WITHOUT believing that disabled ppl are in any way “lazy” or “deserve” their disability or “it’s their fault” or any of that bullshit

i get that disability can be devastating to those who used to do a certain type of art that their body no longer allows in the traditional sense. but physical and mental disability have literally NEVER stopped people from creating art, EVER, in all of history. artists are creative. passionate people find a way.

and even if a way can’t be found…. stealing is still stealing. like. plagiarizing an article isn’t suddenly ethical just bc the person who stole it can’t read, and being against plagiarism doesn’t mean you hate people who can’t read.

the whole ableism angle on ai art confuses the hell out of me, if im honest. at least be consistent about it. if it’s ethical when disabled people do it, then it’s ethical when anyone does it

#lime rants #i think the only ethical way to use ai art is any way in which youre not claiming it as your own work #so like. you wanna generate a funny image to post in the groupchat #or you want some ideas for a piece of art that you ACTUALLY ARE gonna make yourself. but u need inspiration and cant find good extant image #unfortunately theres no way to regulate any of that #i also think theres something fucky about implying that disabled people cant do ANYTHING #even stuff that they historically have been able to do just fine #like ‘well disabled people are just useless so you cant expect them to do anything themselves’ uuuuh #disabled people can absolutely create their own art. they do not need to steal #and even if not that doesnt just make stealing okay

[trishmishtree]

Making a regency gown: Finished

Here, have some dogshit-quality photos of the finished dress because my phone is a worthless overpriced potato masquerading as a camera

I swear it looks better in person.

I'm actually pretty pleased with the final gown even though I used 100% the wrong fabric and the skirt could use a whole entire panel more width. The floral embroidery on the hem (4th pic) came pre-embroidered with the fabric, but the dots and vines were hand-embroidered by me.

I finished the embroidery 3 weeks ago but didn't post pics because I was still holding out hope that aforementioned dogshit camera would cooperate. And well, I finally said fuck it, I'm tired of trying to get decent photos while standing on a chair in front of my bathroom mirror while 19/20 of the pics I try to take come out blurry. These 4 photos are just the least terrible of the bunch 🤬

#sewing #hand sewing #historical costuming #regency fashion #tricia sews (kind of) #you may have noticed that the waistline hits a few inches below my underbust #that's on purpose #the extant gown also does this because it's from around 1810 #the waistlines move higher as the decade progesses but i like the slightly lower waistline #at some point I'm going to make a reticule and bonnet and pelisse and maybe some detachable daywear sleeves #but I'm going to take a break for now and focus on some historybounding daily wear things

[jovialturtleface]

Have you ever seen a vampire dressed as a cat? No? Too bad because Merlot's definitely not a vampire 🧛‍♂️!

#Merlot #myart #artists on tumblr #clip studio paint #oc tag #Extant Universe #Oct 2023 #Finally now all of those doodles in my sketchbook from 2021 finally get to be seen in some way #The previous Wraith drawing was also a 2021 doodle so that's why doodle was plural

[zombiegirldean]

Dean + outliving his martyrdom

s3e7 Fresh Blood / Revolutionary Girl Utena / Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath / s2e4 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things / Daddy by Sylvia Plath / https://www.tumblr.com/emptychatrooms/171821729803/turned-inside-out-in-the-backyard?source=share / Anne Carson / s4e1 Lazarus Rising

#supernatural #dean winchester #this is dumb but. gestures wildly #one thing about dean is he will rise from what resembles the grave but isn't #also something about not being in charge of your own body. the spirit is weak. but the flesh is willing #overliving. decay as an extant form of life. you wont get off that easy. get back in the ring. fuck #tosses hair. it's a failed suicide thing you wouldnt get it #tw suicide #also his job is literally grave desecration...

[chemiosmotic]

i cant believe i see genuine praise on this site as "anti imperialist" for a work where māori characters Do The Real Colonialism and kill 200 babies

#not tagging this but reblog if u like #j.txt #racism -- #infant death i guess - #also the fucking chilren's bones crown which. isnt that a real extant racist stereotype

[fruityfinch]

A little scene I thought of while on a walk the other day and then thought. hey. I know how to draw. let’s draw it. so then I did :)

It’s supposed to be kinda like a person from that world sketched the scene from memory shortly after it happened! These big chunky dragons can fly and want the sheep but they have no fire powers or particular fire resistance beyond having thick hides. The smaller livestock guardians can’t fly but can spit fire as a deterrent, and tend to work in pairs or groups.

#dragon art #dragons #animal art #furry art #furry #fruityart #well I don’t know! what do YOU think about when you’re on a walk huh??? #if not what livestock guardians would be like in a world with dragons??? they’d probably also have to be dragons #the way we have dogs (descendants of wild canines) to defend livestock from still extant wild canines #Creatures of Ozeum #CROZ: worldbuilding

[supercantaloupe]

i heard livin it up on top (bway version of course) play on the radio tonight on my drive home. and while i am not going to turn this into yet another Opinion Piece about Which Version of the show is Best(tm) it did make me think about how often operas will be performed in different versions. the age old battle of prague vs vienna don giovanni (nevermind the fact that the current most common/popular production combined elements of both libretti) and italian vs french, four act vs five act don carlo(s), or magic flute productions which can look and act completely different from one another based on what recits are kept or cut or translated loosely or rewritten entirely. for several reasons of course i don't see musicals doing the same type of thing Any time soon but it would be interesting indeed if they did

#sasha speaks #imagine a world where both nytw and bway hadestown were both extant and valid production concepts that get performed #without one overtaking the other as Definitive or Final. imagine how many other shows would look different #if their earlier drafts were made public and allowed to be put to stage again and played with... #also my opinions on the aforementioned operas. if you must know: #do whatever you want forever with magic flute; i don't care about don carlo enough to want to Fix It in any way; #and don g is best with both dalla and tesoro while mi tradi and the finale sextet are indispensable. And per queste sucks thank you amen

[leroibobo]

oh if you ever are curious about non-maghrebi/egyptian african synagogues i highly recommend this website. they're unfortunately not as recorded in pictures as the other sorts of synagogues i post, but there is comprehensive information on them.

#jewish #info #my posts #also how interesting that there's such a marked difference between the ones for the 'black' and 'white' jews #like zimbabwe and south africa have synagogues for european jews that came but not one for the extant lemba jewish community #afaik they just didnt have them (and just prayed at peoples homes) but i could be wrong #(man the bullshit lemba jews have to go thru re: their 'legitimacy' reminds me of treatment of native americans w black ancestry in the us) #but ya synagogues in the maghreb and egypt are pretty well-documented so i dont include them #unfortunately info online on african synagogues everywhere that isnt those places is scarce

[tswwwit]

Ok, so you've covered people/demons being interested in Dipper but what about creatures/demons trying to be a homewrecker and disrupt Bill n dip's marriage?? Bill's admirers jealous that dipper gets to marry Bill, like why does a lowly human gets to be with Bill but I Merfrassandra the Third that is the heir to bla bla bla bla bla bla (too lazy to type at this part) doesn't?!? It's not fair!

Oh, there's absolutely a contingent of those! Bill Cipher's one of the most powerful beings around, and most of the others on his level are unavailable for a variety of reasons. He's probably been voted Most Egregious Bachelor quite a few times over the eons!

Anyone looking to sidle on into Dipper's spot probably has the following thought process:

Bill Cipher is willing to commit, for once in his eternal life

Getting close to Bill comes with Power and Reach and Authority. Interdimensional influence, even.

And he’s good looking!

He’s hitched to some dumb young human who at best will last another few decades

Bill's a lot of things, but he's not an idiot. He knows that mortal's gonna be worm food soon enough.

If I eliminate the competition, that Committed Relationship space opens up! No human could be possibly better than me!

And yeah, so what if Bill’s pissed for a bit? He’s not gonna be that attached to a mortal

Anyone who confronted Bill about this would at best be laughed right out of the room. At worst? He's collecting parts of them as reasons not to pull the same stunt.

Dipper, however, absolutely sees people trying to open up his 'spot'. Whether he realizes that's what they're after is a tossup. But if he does? I doubt he's telling Bill about the reason for his latest near-death experience.

#It just feels awkward to go up to Bill like #Uhhhh so someone who really wanted to get with you tried to kill me #For one it fuels Bill's ego. Indirectly. And for another Dipper just feels. Weird about being desired by someone so *desirable* #It's probably a fluke he tells himself. Just that one oddball who was also into Bill #Nevermind that he runs into one more often than anyone would like #But let's be honest - Dipper's not *wrong* #Most beings are after Bill for the power and influence and handsome demon. Not Bill Himself #He's 100% Obnoxious even for a demon because he can get away with it #You'd have to be a real weird nerd to be into his brand of all-knowing geeky asshole and confident dickishness #Don't worry Dipper your space is safe. Even if someone did manage to knock you off #Bill isn't getting over THAT anytime soon #answers #I don't think Bill *has* any currently-extant exes #But if there *was* someone he had a fling with millenia ago and they tried to taunt Dipper about it #They might face awkward 'haha yeah...' followed by jealous immolation